77 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: Every Time I Start My Truck”
It’s usually embarassing when a kid is smarter than the teacher.
Actually, I was quite comfortable with it.
Teachers didn’t like it so much, though.
Indy @3:02 – I trust Mark Steyn.
LC Bennett – Snagglepuss and glasnost were “funnin'” you. From what they say, there was no “insult insult” intended. (FYI guys, this is best conveyed by adding a “smiley face” after the mean comment.) (Ya is true, I forget nussink! :-))
Believe it or not the teachers where always telling me I was smarter than them. They accused me of asking questions to disrupt the class.I just wanted to make them look bad.It was never very difficult.
Countering this kind of indoctrination is actually pretty easy.
I’m sure many of you first found out there was no Santa Claus when you were younger than most. If you’re like me, you were told by your parents that you knew something most didn’t and that you shouldn’t ruin it for the other children. Instead, let them believe and find out on their own.
I would suggest you take the same approach with your kids. When you find out the educators (remember when they used to co-ordinate with parents instead of against them?) are trying to indoctrinate your kids, simply tell the little ones that it’s just a myth being told so as to encourage people to not be wasteful.
Your child will “feel” smarter, they’ll be immunized against the crap, and they are more likely to not speak out to the teacher about it…thus keeping you out of re-education camp.
If your’re driving a Toyota, and the teacher is standing in front of the truck….hmmmm….possibly!!
Black Mamba, the way you use the term “insult insult”, I consider an insult. You snake:-)
I’m sure many of you first found out there was no Santa Claus when you were younger than most. ~ bryceman
So it’s true then?
I know. I’m a misogynist trapped in a woman’s body, an anti-religious bigot and either Percy from an ancient CBC sitcom and/or some dude named Larry Bennett.
Now I remember why I preferred working with men – they have an argument, clear the air and move on. Women (and metrosexuals), OTOH, carry it with them forever. Ooops, more misogyny.
Apologies, Kate.
Re-converging to the topic: What are we doing to inspire the smart kids, you know the ones who might question the doofus leftie not-so-smart teacher who proposes the kind of ca-ca we’re talking about? Was that the topic?
dead polar bears
small dead animals
My son-in-law teaches a split grade 3 and 4 class on the east side of Saskatoon and does his best to counter the Suzuki/Gore propaganda when discussing the topic at that level. At the same time he keeps his mouth shut around the other teachers about this topic and his conservative political preferences.
Oops! So then, fairest LC, my reference shoulda been ‘Priscilla’ Kidpester(?). My bad…
Heavens to Murgatroid, and my most humble apologies, eeevin!!
Exit stage right! :>))
Meh. When they figure out there is no Santa Claus (a myth designed to make them feel good), let them know AGW is the same thing but designed to make them feel bad.
As a school administrator and strong conservative, I get pretty tired of the anti-teacher crowd that frequently spouts off without thinking. If you want to exact change, contact the teacher and reasonably discuss your concern about the coercing of specific beliefs towards your child. Then, contact the school principal and reasonably express your opinion. You would be surprised how little feedback we get about what takes place in the classroom (as we can’t be in every classroom at all times) and most of us do try to keep personal beliefs out of our instruction
To Ken, tell your son in law to keep his chin up and don’t hold back his opinions with other teachers. You would be surprised how many of us conservatives there are in the profession (perhaps as many as 50% of the teaching population in rural areas)
“As a school administrator and strong conservative, I get pretty tired of the anti-teacher crowd that frequently spouts off without thinking.” kt
Well kt, many of this ‘crowd’ has been thinking a great deal and for a long time about the leftist bias in the education system, and it seems to me that you, as a ‘school administer’ are doing SFA to counteract it, when you know it is deeply entrenched, actually endemic, in the system.
Cut the helplessness rhetoric and stand up for balance, if you do in fact, believe in it!
kt…you are nothing more then a pawn of the system,(or useful idiot as Stalin said).Get off your fat,lazy ass,and check out what the “teachers” are teaching!Oh sorry.Does your union not allow that?
Has anybody noticed that the people most against home schooling are teachers and their union?
“Since 2003, 270 complaints have been made by parents and other members of the public against teachers. Not one of these complaints has resulted in the discipline of a teacher. This “person complaint” process was one that was introduced in 2003 and was fiercely opposed by the B.C. Teachers’ Federation.
The fact that the college has not taken disciplinary action on even one of those complaints in seven years raises serious questions about how the BCTF uses its influence on the college council to protect individual teachers, rather than protect the public interest.” http://tinyurl.com/2ectadx
Actually, Snagglepuss, I spend a great deal of my time trying to counteract the leftist bias that is rampant in the system, especially at the University level and within union activists. Alas, I don’t have magic fairy dust to make the difficulties go away, just reason, listening skills and a willingness to engage misinformation and conspiracy one person at a time. Perhaps if you would do the same, we might be twice as effective.
As for justthinkin, perhaps you should wipe the spittle from your monitor and engage in a discussion. Or is it easier to just rant from your holier than thou perspective, call people names… oh wait, you were one of those bullies who would pick on little kids and run and hide behind Mommy, pretending to be a victim and blaming everyone around you for your own failings and lack of success. As for your comment about being against home schooling, I don’t recall any words in my post that indicated that. I know quite a few parents who have chosen the option of home schooling their children and when they’ve spent the time and effort engaging them in community activities(with other children instead of just adults) their children are wonderful people who are well adjusted and destined to be succesful. I would rather spend my time re-engaging parents who have pulled their children from the system and attemting to resolve the issues that resulted in that decision, building a trust that we can work together so their sons and daughters can achieve the success that every parent wants for their child. I’ve had some success with some families and none with others. But without the dialoge, we won’t solve any of the problems, just keep popping veins yelling at the computer.
The only way to stop the propaganda is to get rid of public education — to enact the separation of school and state in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of church and state.
Every global warming nutcase ought to have their entire existence examined by a carbon accountant, revealing to the whole world how they live their hypocritical lives.
They should be banned from all CO2 emitting activities, and be forced to pay reparations for all the damage they’ve caused to date.
Did I mention talking is a CO2 emitting activity?
Oh my, so is breathing.
I guess we’ll have to start feeding them to polar bears.
kt….prove me wrong.No spittle here,just the facts.Why do you types allow the showing of a dishonest film(inconvient truth)without a counter?Why do you drive to your office,then preach against big oil?Why are you using a computer? I would call you hypocritical,but useful idiot fits better.And I have no shame using the advances our technology has brought us. Go try a mud hut in Africa,without DDT to kill the malaria skeeters your heroine brought about.Or better yet,go club a baby seal.Oh wait.That has been outlawed for years!Maybe you can tell Greenpeace or PETA that!
kt….I would say that 50% of teachers are conservative is low. And you are right about speaking up to a point. Unfortunately, Liberal don’t take kindly to apposing points of views and if your Principal is a Gore-aid drinker it can be a very rough ride.
It is sad that so many teachers are smeared by so few.
I sitting here reading and the lyrics to Mike & the Mechanics “Silent Running” keep streaming through my consciousness.
I recently posted the following at Pajamas Media, re an article talking about Obama’s double cross of the allies of the USA and his pandering to its enemies:
“This article and this post describe what our public education systems have become: propaganda and appeasement machines run by brain dead adult toddlers. E.g., Take a nearby board of education’s behaviour code. (BTW, such codes are virtually never enforced these days. Read on.) ‘We don’t focus on consequences for unacceptable behaviour, but instead, we focus on guidelines [?] for appropriate behaviour.’ (Those guidelines! They really have an impact on the entitled, bully brats who now fill our schools.)
“I guess the appeaseniks don’t know the sage advice of Sun Tzu: ‘If you want peace, prepare for war.’ Every successful teacher knows that, and uses no-nonsense consequences to keep the mob in line. (Meanwhile, administration practises hug-a-thug and, if one of that crew should complain, it’s the harassed, bullied, and abused teacher who’s disciplined. It’s crazy!)
“I truly despair at times. I’ve seen the moral inversion in public schools coming for the past two decades: when I realized that the same astonishingly dirty, counter productive, and dangerous game was now being played out, at the highest levels, on the world stage, I was aghast. The inmates are truly running the asylum.
“An article I once read asked, ‘Who are the most dangerous people on the planet?’ The conclusion: toddlers. Yup, I thought. Luckily, the article went on to say, we’re protected from toddlers by the fact that their super-size egos and temper tantrums are accompanied by their very small size and their lack of access to Uzis. Obama, the Toddler in Chief, is the fruition of our world gone mad.
“Kyrie eleison.”
With due respect, kt, what are you actually doing to stand with and support the beleaguered conservative teachers in the trenches in your jurisdiction? Are you publicly speaking out? Are you inviting (safe) input from them?
At work, I keep my head down and my comments to myself. If, kt, you’re at all like the administrators in my jurisdiction, your head’s way above the clouds and, even if I were willing to try to bring reality to your attention, there are no protocols, outside of union involvement—don’t bother: they’re a HUGE PART of the problem—to allow a conservative teacher to do so. (Now, why do you think boards provide no direct conduits from the serfs, aka “teachers”, to the “higher ups”?) And, even if I were foolhardy enough to let you, a senior administrator, know what’s really going on down in the gulag, my VERY BAD NEWS from the camps would most likely be neutered and then, like Fido, quickly buried.
Frankly, kt, I’m glad to hear that you’re conservative, but, nothing you’ve said about being conservative—and all those conservative teachers out there—has the ring of truth to it. I WOULD agree that most teachers are not the raving, Lefty lunatics who run most ministries and boards. However, aware of how few rights and diminished authority they have, most teachers keep any non PC opinions strictly—or, if ventured, very carefully—to themselves. They have, effectively, been neutered and caged.
The double standards of our public education systems—“We believe in justice, diversity, equity, non-bullying . . . yada, yada, yada,” ad nauseum—makes me sick. kt, hats off to you if you really care and are really doing something to change the tyrannical, PC culture of our public schools. But, where I am, I don’t see any such thing.
Advise to the parents who wonder how they can neutralize public school indoctrination: in order to be able to demand something from your children, you have to give them a lot first. Put down beer, sigs and cancel the plans to buy that big screen TV and a truck. Instead spend money on hockey and soccer uniform, baseball bats and gloves, and dare I say clays?
My kids main thought about polar bears is whether 45/70 is enough.
It’s usually embarassing when a kid is smarter than the teacher.
Actually, I was quite comfortable with it.
Teachers didn’t like it so much, though.
Indy @3:02 – I trust Mark Steyn.
LC Bennett – Snagglepuss and glasnost were “funnin'” you. From what they say, there was no “insult insult” intended. (FYI guys, this is best conveyed by adding a “smiley face” after the mean comment.) (Ya is true, I forget nussink! :-))
Believe it or not the teachers where always telling me I was smarter than them. They accused me of asking questions to disrupt the class.I just wanted to make them look bad.It was never very difficult.
Countering this kind of indoctrination is actually pretty easy.
I’m sure many of you first found out there was no Santa Claus when you were younger than most. If you’re like me, you were told by your parents that you knew something most didn’t and that you shouldn’t ruin it for the other children. Instead, let them believe and find out on their own.
I would suggest you take the same approach with your kids. When you find out the educators (remember when they used to co-ordinate with parents instead of against them?) are trying to indoctrinate your kids, simply tell the little ones that it’s just a myth being told so as to encourage people to not be wasteful.
Your child will “feel” smarter, they’ll be immunized against the crap, and they are more likely to not speak out to the teacher about it…thus keeping you out of re-education camp.
If your’re driving a Toyota, and the teacher is standing in front of the truck….hmmmm….possibly!!
Black Mamba, the way you use the term “insult insult”, I consider an insult. You snake:-)
I’m sure many of you first found out there was no Santa Claus when you were younger than most. ~ bryceman
So it’s true then?
I know. I’m a misogynist trapped in a woman’s body, an anti-religious bigot and either Percy from an ancient CBC sitcom and/or some dude named Larry Bennett.
Now I remember why I preferred working with men – they have an argument, clear the air and move on. Women (and metrosexuals), OTOH, carry it with them forever. Ooops, more misogyny.
Apologies, Kate.
Re-converging to the topic: What are we doing to inspire the smart kids, you know the ones who might question the doofus leftie not-so-smart teacher who proposes the kind of ca-ca we’re talking about? Was that the topic?
dead polar bears
small dead animals
My son-in-law teaches a split grade 3 and 4 class on the east side of Saskatoon and does his best to counter the Suzuki/Gore propaganda when discussing the topic at that level. At the same time he keeps his mouth shut around the other teachers about this topic and his conservative political preferences.
Oops! So then, fairest LC, my reference shoulda been ‘Priscilla’ Kidpester(?). My bad…
Heavens to Murgatroid, and my most humble apologies, eeevin!!
Exit stage right! :>))
Meh. When they figure out there is no Santa Claus (a myth designed to make them feel good), let them know AGW is the same thing but designed to make them feel bad.
As a school administrator and strong conservative, I get pretty tired of the anti-teacher crowd that frequently spouts off without thinking. If you want to exact change, contact the teacher and reasonably discuss your concern about the coercing of specific beliefs towards your child. Then, contact the school principal and reasonably express your opinion. You would be surprised how little feedback we get about what takes place in the classroom (as we can’t be in every classroom at all times) and most of us do try to keep personal beliefs out of our instruction
To Ken, tell your son in law to keep his chin up and don’t hold back his opinions with other teachers. You would be surprised how many of us conservatives there are in the profession (perhaps as many as 50% of the teaching population in rural areas)
“As a school administrator and strong conservative, I get pretty tired of the anti-teacher crowd that frequently spouts off without thinking.” kt
Well kt, many of this ‘crowd’ has been thinking a great deal and for a long time about the leftist bias in the education system, and it seems to me that you, as a ‘school administer’ are doing SFA to counteract it, when you know it is deeply entrenched, actually endemic, in the system.
Cut the helplessness rhetoric and stand up for balance, if you do in fact, believe in it!
kt…you are nothing more then a pawn of the system,(or useful idiot as Stalin said).Get off your fat,lazy ass,and check out what the “teachers” are teaching!Oh sorry.Does your union not allow that?
Has anybody noticed that the people most against home schooling are teachers and their union?
“Since 2003, 270 complaints have been made by parents and other members of the public against teachers. Not one of these complaints has resulted in the discipline of a teacher. This “person complaint” process was one that was introduced in 2003 and was fiercely opposed by the B.C. Teachers’ Federation.
The fact that the college has not taken disciplinary action on even one of those complaints in seven years raises serious questions about how the BCTF uses its influence on the college council to protect individual teachers, rather than protect the public interest.”
http://tinyurl.com/2ectadx
I didn’t see even one polar bear….
Mighty Ships : Season 1 : Tregurtha : “Tregurtha”
http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/mighty-ships-/mighty-ships-season-1/mighty-ships-tregurtha/#clip132757
Mighty Ships : Season 1 : Henry Larsen
http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/mighty-ships-/mighty-ships-season-1/mighty-ships-henry-larsen/#clip132660
Actually, Snagglepuss, I spend a great deal of my time trying to counteract the leftist bias that is rampant in the system, especially at the University level and within union activists. Alas, I don’t have magic fairy dust to make the difficulties go away, just reason, listening skills and a willingness to engage misinformation and conspiracy one person at a time. Perhaps if you would do the same, we might be twice as effective.
As for justthinkin, perhaps you should wipe the spittle from your monitor and engage in a discussion. Or is it easier to just rant from your holier than thou perspective, call people names… oh wait, you were one of those bullies who would pick on little kids and run and hide behind Mommy, pretending to be a victim and blaming everyone around you for your own failings and lack of success. As for your comment about being against home schooling, I don’t recall any words in my post that indicated that. I know quite a few parents who have chosen the option of home schooling their children and when they’ve spent the time and effort engaging them in community activities(with other children instead of just adults) their children are wonderful people who are well adjusted and destined to be succesful. I would rather spend my time re-engaging parents who have pulled their children from the system and attemting to resolve the issues that resulted in that decision, building a trust that we can work together so their sons and daughters can achieve the success that every parent wants for their child. I’ve had some success with some families and none with others. But without the dialoge, we won’t solve any of the problems, just keep popping veins yelling at the computer.
The only way to stop the propaganda is to get rid of public education — to enact the separation of school and state in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of church and state.
Every global warming nutcase ought to have their entire existence examined by a carbon accountant, revealing to the whole world how they live their hypocritical lives.
They should be banned from all CO2 emitting activities, and be forced to pay reparations for all the damage they’ve caused to date.
Did I mention talking is a CO2 emitting activity?
Oh my, so is breathing.
I guess we’ll have to start feeding them to polar bears.
kt….prove me wrong.No spittle here,just the facts.Why do you types allow the showing of a dishonest film(inconvient truth)without a counter?Why do you drive to your office,then preach against big oil?Why are you using a computer? I would call you hypocritical,but useful idiot fits better.And I have no shame using the advances our technology has brought us. Go try a mud hut in Africa,without DDT to kill the malaria skeeters your heroine brought about.Or better yet,go club a baby seal.Oh wait.That has been outlawed for years!Maybe you can tell Greenpeace or PETA that!
kt….I would say that 50% of teachers are conservative is low. And you are right about speaking up to a point. Unfortunately, Liberal don’t take kindly to apposing points of views and if your Principal is a Gore-aid drinker it can be a very rough ride.
It is sad that so many teachers are smeared by so few.
I sitting here reading and the lyrics to Mike & the Mechanics “Silent Running” keep streaming through my consciousness.
I recently posted the following at Pajamas Media, re an article talking about Obama’s double cross of the allies of the USA and his pandering to its enemies:
“This article and this post describe what our public education systems have become: propaganda and appeasement machines run by brain dead adult toddlers. E.g., Take a nearby board of education’s behaviour code. (BTW, such codes are virtually never enforced these days. Read on.) ‘We don’t focus on consequences for unacceptable behaviour, but instead, we focus on guidelines [?] for appropriate behaviour.’ (Those guidelines! They really have an impact on the entitled, bully brats who now fill our schools.)
“I guess the appeaseniks don’t know the sage advice of Sun Tzu: ‘If you want peace, prepare for war.’ Every successful teacher knows that, and uses no-nonsense consequences to keep the mob in line. (Meanwhile, administration practises hug-a-thug and, if one of that crew should complain, it’s the harassed, bullied, and abused teacher who’s disciplined. It’s crazy!)
“I truly despair at times. I’ve seen the moral inversion in public schools coming for the past two decades: when I realized that the same astonishingly dirty, counter productive, and dangerous game was now being played out, at the highest levels, on the world stage, I was aghast. The inmates are truly running the asylum.
“An article I once read asked, ‘Who are the most dangerous people on the planet?’ The conclusion: toddlers. Yup, I thought. Luckily, the article went on to say, we’re protected from toddlers by the fact that their super-size egos and temper tantrums are accompanied by their very small size and their lack of access to Uzis. Obama, the Toddler in Chief, is the fruition of our world gone mad.
“Kyrie eleison.”
With due respect, kt, what are you actually doing to stand with and support the beleaguered conservative teachers in the trenches in your jurisdiction? Are you publicly speaking out? Are you inviting (safe) input from them?
At work, I keep my head down and my comments to myself. If, kt, you’re at all like the administrators in my jurisdiction, your head’s way above the clouds and, even if I were willing to try to bring reality to your attention, there are no protocols, outside of union involvement—don’t bother: they’re a HUGE PART of the problem—to allow a conservative teacher to do so. (Now, why do you think boards provide no direct conduits from the serfs, aka “teachers”, to the “higher ups”?) And, even if I were foolhardy enough to let you, a senior administrator, know what’s really going on down in the gulag, my VERY BAD NEWS from the camps would most likely be neutered and then, like Fido, quickly buried.
Frankly, kt, I’m glad to hear that you’re conservative, but, nothing you’ve said about being conservative—and all those conservative teachers out there—has the ring of truth to it. I WOULD agree that most teachers are not the raving, Lefty lunatics who run most ministries and boards. However, aware of how few rights and diminished authority they have, most teachers keep any non PC opinions strictly—or, if ventured, very carefully—to themselves. They have, effectively, been neutered and caged.
The double standards of our public education systems—“We believe in justice, diversity, equity, non-bullying . . . yada, yada, yada,” ad nauseum—makes me sick. kt, hats off to you if you really care and are really doing something to change the tyrannical, PC culture of our public schools. But, where I am, I don’t see any such thing.
Advise to the parents who wonder how they can neutralize public school indoctrination: in order to be able to demand something from your children, you have to give them a lot first. Put down beer, sigs and cancel the plans to buy that big screen TV and a truck. Instead spend money on hockey and soccer uniform, baseball bats and gloves, and dare I say clays?
My kids main thought about polar bears is whether 45/70 is enough.