Over the past month I´ve seen a disturbing pattern taking place in my children´s middle school. We live in the outlying suburbs of Tampa Fl. The demographics here are middle to upper middle class divided fairly equal between different races and cultures. Race had never been an issue in the area we live. I had considered it a very progressive and forward thinking area. But over the past few weeks my child has come home with disturbing tales of increasing racism . My son has been called racist slurs such as cracker and whitey by a a black 6th grade boy. On another occasion my 12 year old son was called a F******* Racist for not loaning a black child a pencil. He has been told by the same black child that if my son lived in his neighborhood he would be dead! In addition to all this Children have been writing Go Bamako and Obama Rules on their Arms with Magic Markers. This week there were white and black children handing out handmade index cards some saying McCain Sucks and some saying Obama Rules. I find this disturbing mostly because it seems that the teachers are not doing anything about it. I really don´t know what to do about any of it. I worry about my kids going to school if things get much worse.

a. hillary
b. mccain

america first!

“In this instance, it is unfortunate that a lecture directed toward an academic subject has become implicated in a political campaign,” the chancellor said. “Nothing in his presence suggests that the university supports his personal or political philosophy or condones any of his former conduct.”

I am a retired teacher who first taught when public schools did still have an academic agenda. You know, teach language skills, teach math skills, teach science, teach history, etc.

The education departments of our universities are travesties, they are the least truly academic of the many departments at a university. This teach the kids stuff is so much crap.

English lesson: “Students” are not, in my way of thinking, eligible to be direct objects of the verb “to teach.” “Students” can be an indirect object that receives the direct object. You can not teach students. (Just try giving a lecture on the topic “students.”) You can teach students English, for example.

Most education departments are made up of the least intelligent, most fuzzy-brained people I know, with all their little social improvement theories about how schools should solve the world’s problems. They like to view themselves as saviours of the world.

Schools should provide students some skills and knowledge so they can solve the problems themselves.

I hated when my own kids got a young teacher who would just gush and gush about how she just “loved” kids and wanted to teach for that reason. I would tell them this: I love my kids enough. I want you to love the subject you are teaching so much that your love for the subject will help my kid learn it. Concentrate on knowing the subject you are supposed to teach. I’ll concentrate on loving my child.

I cringed so often at the younger teachers in my field whose lack of knowledge about the subject just saddened me to no end. By the time I taught as an adjunct at local universities, I realized I was teaching nothing harder than I taught ninth graders the first year I taught in ‘70.

Got to quit ranting, but Ayers’ work in “education” almost makes me angrier than his escapades as an anarchist.

Wingnut is a renewable resource

http://www.darkskiesblog.com/2008/10/07/video-presentation-of-marxist-ideological-subversion-in-us-video-embed-very-interesting/

Yes, this sounds crazy now. If Obama is elected, talk to me in two years and we’ll see how crazy it is.

“I didn’t decide to run for president to start a national crusade for the political reforms I believed in or to run a campaign as if
it were some grand act of patriotism. In truth I wanted to be president because it had become my ambition to be president. I was sixty two years old
when I made the decision and I thought it was my one shot at the prize”

John McCain – Worth the fighting for: A memoir 2002

This is what I think should be emphasized about the Ayers/Obama link, not the stuff from the 60’s and 70’s. People “get” irresponsible management and squandering of funds. When Obama ran for Congress in 2000, he specifically mentioned his experience in chairing the CAC as a qualification.

Plenty to read but I will suggest RevolutionRadio.org
Read the whole thing. This is way more than teaching kindergardeners about inapropriate touching.