Originally Posted By RC Collins We are essentially forced to listen to Leftist preaching in public schools and in the workplace. We can turn off our TVs, we can not listen to music, we can avoid watching the movies, but it is harder to avoid law (or lawsuit)-mandated Leftist preaching in the schools or workplace.
Originally Posted By dshyates While I loathe most Con. Talk Radio. Boortz, I can listen to. I had to turn him off yesterday when he was going off on Hillary (no prob with that) but when he suggested that to fix appalachia they should drop airdrop suitcases for us to move to where the jobs are, was simply offensive. That said, at this moment, I have resumes in all over the eastern US so I can move where the jobs are. But that also means moving away from my 7 & 11 year old daughters. That's OK. I'll see them for about 6 weeks each summer. And we can thank the Unions for the work climate here in WV. Thanks guys.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn Boortz typically tries his best to be as offensive to as many groups as possible.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <We are essentially forced to listen to Leftist preaching in public schools and in the workplace.> It might be interesting (and instructive) to learn what passes for "leftist preaching" in your opinion.
Originally Posted By mrkthompsn What I don't like in public schools are the very first lesson. The younglings come to class with their crayons, glue sticks, pencils and paper pads. The teacher welcomes them to school, then asks the kids to bring all of their things a place them into the community box. The crayons are not thiers. The paper pads are not theirs. The glue sticks, pencils and other items are not theirs. It's all "the communities'". The get redistributed to the kids based on the needs. Just like Marx's Communist Manifesto: "From each according to their abilities to each according to their needs". Citizen own nothing - only the authority owns things, and those things are confiscated from those who develop the resources. Lesson learned
Originally Posted By dshyates "What I don't like in public schools are the very first lesson. The younglings come to class with their crayons, glue sticks, pencils and paper pads. The teacher welcomes them to school, then asks the kids to bring all of their things a place them into the community box. The crayons are not thiers. The paper pads are not theirs. The glue sticks, pencils and other items are not theirs. It's all "the communities'". The get redistributed to the kids based on the needs." My kids have been in elementary schools in 3 different states, and I have never seen this. Maybe you need to listen to less conservitive radio. This sounds like Niel Boortz to me. The conservitive agenda to dismantal the public school system is insane. And their base eats it up. Pure and simple economic warfare waged on the less rich.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Yeah, my kids never did this. They had to have their own stuff. But if some teachers do put all the supplies into a central place, it probably gives the individual parents a bit of a break not having to buy new glue sticks every week. (I'm old enough to remember when the school provided paper, and pencils, and crayons. I'm sure there are some communist overtones to that, too, but I don't listen to enough talk radio to know what it might be. Either that, or eating all that state-supplied paste in kindergarten affected me more than I knew.)
Originally Posted By ecdc >>My kids have been in elementary schools in 3 different states, and I have never seen this. Maybe you need to listen to less conservitive radio. This sounds like Niel Boortz to me. The conservitive agenda to dismantal the public school system is insane. And their base eats it up. Pure and simple economic warfare waged on the less rich.<< Too true. I was gonna say, I've never heard of this either. I love how conservatives listen to Rush and Hannity to learn what liberals believe. Like I've said before, if liberals really were the way these guys portrayed them, I'd want to run them out on a rail too. Fortunately, it's all just a boogeyman, and 9 times out of 10, when you call them on it, they can't give any examples of these supposed happenings. Case in point: Woody's unqualified assertion that ministers and preachers are being prosecuted for hate crimes for preaching against homosexuality. He phrased it in such a way as to say it was happening, and it was a multiple offense - it'd happened more than once. When called on it, he couldn't provide a single example, and instead rephrased his claim to say that it *will* happen someday. Seriously, normal conservatives need to reclaim the airwaves and their political party. But there's not a lot of ratings for normalcy.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Yeah, let those damn 5 year olds get their own freaking crayons.<< What I'd do is make sure each child had 20 crayons all the same color. One kid would have red, another, blue, another green and so on. All the way to burnt umber. Then in order to color, they would have to set up a market/barter system. The more popular crayons would be worth more, the less popular worth less. Students would have to trade goods (something out of their lunch, maybe) or services (carrying someone's books for them) and eventually, it would create a structure of haves and have nots. Or maybe their would be fights, representing wars. I'd play patriotic marches in class a lot, too. So many creative ways to teach things besides that commie-inspired concept of "sharing." Yuck, sharing sucks. 3-year-olds have it right. With them, everything is "MINE!!!" Then we go and make softies out of them by introducing sharing with others.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan You wouldn't want to be the kid with burnt umber. No one wants that color. Just ask the makers of Zune.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan You honestly believe that pooling together kindergarten art supplies fosters communism? Seriously?
Originally Posted By Mr X You think THAT'S bad!? In Japan, the kids have to wear these ridiculous uniforms! AND, there are no janitors in the schools. Seriously. No groundskeepers either. The KIDS are used as slave labor to clean the place up (and clean they do...and this AFTER lesson hours, and sometimes on SATURDAYS). Gotta be something communist/socialist/cannibalist about THAT stuff!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I didn't know that about the kids having to clean the schools. What a great idea!
Originally Posted By friendofdd Yeah! If we did that all the schools would look like our kid's rooma.
Originally Posted By Mr X They actually do a good job...HOWEVER even among the relatively diligent Japanese kid population it's pretty obvious that some do most of the work while others slack...
Originally Posted By dshyates at my kids elementary school, they post a list online and you can also pick one up at WalMart that specifies not only how many crayons to buy, but what BRAND. The kids don't pool the supplies. But they do say that donations of additional supplies would be distributed to less fortunate children. But I live in WV and communisism isn't a big threat. We live a looong way from Berkley. So far it is like a different country. For all those gun advocates, this is your place. Guns, Camo, and ATVs everywhere. This sounds like your kinda place mrkthompson. Liberals here wear "green" camo and don't poach on private land.
