28 Replies to “The Children Are Our Future”

    1. Kurt Vonnegut was a prophet. His dystopian vision is being implemented by progressive re-educational boards everywhere.

      I learn something new at SDA all the time. Thanks for sharing.

  2. Just make sure you keep your guns, your gonna need them in the Marxist world they have planned

    1. If I have five guns and I lose two of them in a boating accident, how many guns do I have left?

  3. A friend came from Russia several years ago and was shocked by how far behind the high school math program was as compared to the Russian program. Her grade 11 child had already completed all of the Vancouver grade 11 math years before.

    1. I have a similar story.

      One year, while I was teaching at Armpit College, we had some visitors from Thailand. Some of them sat in on one of my lectures. Unfortunately, my students weren’t on their best behaviour and displayed little self-discipline.

      The visitors liked my presentation, but I sensed that they were shocked at how my students treated me. In societies like theirs, teachers are held in high regard and are accorded the same respect as physicians and holy men.

      Considering what happens in the public school system, it’s no wonder that students can get away with behaving like hooligans. The policy at AC was that I was expected to maintain discipline (by giving them whatever they wanted) but not actually impose it as it might create a “hostile” learning environment.

      2. BAD – Here in Calgary I find the public schools, like Churchill, to be excellent. Kids from our schools get several percentage points added to their marks when they go to Ontario and BC universities. In this competitive environment my daughter managed to get 100% on her grade 12 calculas and a similar score on her provincial calculas exam to earn an exemption from first-year university calculus. Her brothers have excelled as well. Not bragging, just saying that not all kids are hooligans, and not all public schools are bad, or all private educations are good. That’s another story…

        1. Perhaps I over-generalized in my earlier comment, but much of the behaviour of many of the students I had at Armpit College was already deeply ingrained by the time they were in my courses. That’s because they schools they attended let them get away with it. My department administrators, as it always did, simply kicked the can down the road, and blamed me.

          1. BAD – Fully agree that not all schools are created equal and that school administrators, including principals, can have a deleterious effect on our education system.

        2. Here in Morontario the education decline started with elimination of Grade 13. A couple years ago I went to Parents Night and talked to my son’s math teacher. Asked when he was going to learn integral calculus, as he’d just finished differential. Teacher shook his head – a bit sadly – and said “we don’t teach that, it’s a university topic”.

          I said , “But it’s half the introductory course! It’s not the easy half, but you need to know it. Why’d they dump it?”

          “Too hard, probably” is what he said.

          “Too bad, I replied”. The guy agreed.

          This thing in BC makes sense. In communist countries, they stomp all over the individual; the Great Collective is everything.

          mhb23re

  5. During most of my time in school, I was average in my academic performance. Some of my teachers figured out that I could have done much better than I did, but I suspect that one reason was that I was bored.

    It wasn’t until senior high school that I started showing what I was capable of. Part of it was that the material we studied was actually interesting to me.

    Many years later, I figured out what the reason might have been. I learned that I was a lot cleverer than I ever imagined myself to be, being a level to qualify for membership in Mensa. (Don’t let that fool you. If I really was smart, how come I still put on my socks one at a time?) The school system I grew up in simply didn’t inspire me at the time.

  6. Literally they are cancelling the maths program because it’s hard and not all children can participate.

  7. Punishing students who are gifted or who work hard will go very far.

    It worked in China and Cambodia, for example.

    Just ban schools. I’m sure the well-paid teachers’ unions will have something to say about that.

  8. If you happen to have been born with a high IQ and if you are ambitious about learning and studying. If you aspire to work in places where fabulous new shit is discovered or developed …. if you don’t have time for social media … well you had better pretend otherwise.

    We cannot hide that we may be white male, but now that they are going after smart kids who are mostly white male you can avoid the triple header of hate and persecution by simply acting like a liberal. Pretend you can’t do math in your head or that you have a superior vocabulary and excellent diction.

    Most smart people sound smart when they speak. I advise you to listen to how liberals speak, especially black liberals … they are speaking a different language altogether. The slang nowadays is lame, boring and over-used.

    Okay that’s it for now.

    1. If you happen to have been born with a high IQ and if you are ambitious about learning and studying. If you aspire to work in places where fabulous new shit is discovered or developed …. if you don’t have time for social media … well you had better pretend otherwise.

      That’s nothing new. I went through that while I was growing up. Then again, I was always a social square peg.

    2. My engineering heat transfer prof had a great no-sh1tter with us on real world engineering math. In classical mechanics there’s neat and clear-cut formulae for everything but in engineering a lot of formulae were empirical and based on experimentation. So some formula data might be raised to the power of 1.82 and not 2, say. And in real world engineering you have to make assumptions based on experience.

      We were a bit surprised at this. He told us, “If you want easy repeatable formulas, leave this department and go to the Math department. There, 2+2 equals four. Here, 2+2 equals five, for increasingly large values of 2…

      A great lesson.

      mhb23re

  10. Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

    Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  11. Why would prole children need honours programs? So whitey (and Asian= honorary white) can advance their supremacy? Honours programs are still offered in private schools where the children of limousine liberals go.

  12. If you’re kids are getting their education from the public school system in Canada, it’s already too late.

  13. The Vancouver school board is doing their part to keep house prices down by ensuring fewer accomplished buyers come to town.

  14. Jennifer Katz, an “expert”, says “teachers should be teaching a curriculum that is “multilevelled,” so students of different abilities can work on the same assignment but with more advanced inquiry for some.”

    What a load of malarkey. Teachers complain how hard it is to teach classes with kids who are ESL, have learning disabilities or behavior issues, and now they’re also suppose to tailor that same class for a gifted student too. Yeah, sure Jan…

    1. At Armpit College, we had to tailor our course curricula to accommodate the four “official” learning styles. Fortunately, I’ve long forgotten just what they were.

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