Heads up

I was both disheartened and red pilled when my kids came home on MLK day. They were jazzed and stoked about the man, and rightly so. I have nothing against King. Anyway, we're having a discussion about the life and times of MLK when somewhere in there I brought up...
Thomas Jefferson...

crickets, blank looks......they'd never heard of him.

Then...
George Washington? more crickets, blank looks......

Turned out, they had not added MLK to the history of the country in the curicula, but replaced other things with him. I was shocked and upset, but it caused me to become a better, more involved parent. They sure as hell weren't going to hear any good things about firearms either so I added that to the curricula as well. I was please and rewarded when my son would go out shooting safety with his high school buddies.

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Originally posted by Monk:
I want him to to require them to submit lesson plans in advance for approval.

I know what you're trying to accomplish, but be careful with this statement. That would be teachers nationwide submitting and receiving approval of their lesson plans by a federal agency. Personally I want the federal government completely out of education. They are a huge part of the problem. Ultimately, the only solution would be to do away with the federal Department of Education, return education responsibilities back to the states, and pull the restrictions completely off that would prevent the states from privatizing education. In other words, a huge pipe dream at this point.

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Thomas Jefferson

His picture is on the two dollar bill, and his brother George had a TV series called "The Jeffersons". Everyone knows that.

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Originally posted by senza nome:....Asians over-perform because white males are elitist, privileged, prejudiced, guilty of microagressions even unknowingly and unintentional, they can't help it. But it is whiite male's fault anyway. Math is racist and sexist, math was invented by white males.

A few years ago there was an article in the WSJ re a Silicon Valley public high school where many of the "whites" had their kids in private schools because the Asian students/parents were setting the bar too high.

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:
Math is racist and sexist, math was invented by white males.

Evil E V I L ! Purely villanous. How dare you expect anyone to give correct change. Grrr!

Well, not really. They claim that it was an Arabic number system. Too bad they didn't tell us they learned it from ancient India. A time and place that gave us descriptions of flying machines and accurate eyewitness accounts of atomic bombs in the year ~4500 BC.

Imagine performing calculus or the concept of negative atmospheres using Roman numerals. Heck, how about standard fractions based on units of 60? A Roman walks into a bar and raises two fingers. He says 'I'll have five beers please..."

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Originally posted by .38supersig:
They claim that it was an Arabic number system.

The muslims stole it. Just like everything else they have ever attained.

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Originally posted by .38supersig:...A Roman walks into a bar and raises two fingers. He says 'I'll have five beers please..."

OK, I have to clean the Mt Dew off my screen and kybd.