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Article #624851Re: 1958 Crisis in education
From: JimP
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:53
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:53
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:25:16 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: >On Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 5:58:15 PM UTC-4, Peter Flass wrote: > >> There are a lot of good schools, and many bright kids will succeed no >> matter what the school is like, but many schools are set up to turn out >> failures. Of course home/neighborhood environment also plays a big part, >> and I'm not sure what the solution is except to pull the kids out of their >> environment. > >Years ago, when I attended public schools, there were classes to >teach basic homemaking, such as budgeting, shopping, etc. For >instance, in math class, we had to analyze the food ads from the >newspaper for best value (lots of long division.) > >While public schools did not attempt to impose morality issues, >they did teach us and expect to comply with the basics of good >behavior--not stealing, wait your turn, be neat and orderly, >be respectful, good manners, don't litter, don't run, don't >be noisy, etc. > >A lot of what was later called "political correctness" was in >an earlier time just seen as good manners, and expected of >children in school and adults on the job. A number of those films have been digitized and put up on youtube. We got to watch the hospital equipment used to strecth back out spines mangled by car wrecks. We did get taught about good manners and the rest you list above.
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