Denying Children cause Parents are Lesbians

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Originally Posted by dreadgeek

Precisely right. I wish, oh how I wish, that the public schools were dedicated to the idea that the job of the teacher isn't to prep students for the next test, it's to teach people how to learn and how to be citizens and not just consumers. If we learned about citizenship, what it entails, why it matters, I think we would be a different and better nation.

Both the left and the right in America miss the boat, I think with the issues of education and citizenship. The left has, at best, an ambiguous relationship to promoting the idea that one is a citizen and that this is something meaningful. The right believes in citizenship but what is meant by the right is more along the lines of nationalism than what I have in mind.

Cheers
Aj

Nods.. Creighton Preps moto is.. *Building Men for Others who serve and seek justice in our local, national, and international communities*

The entire public school system needs a complete over haul.. No child left behind has failed on such a massive level.. Forget about learning.. Teach only what the kid needs to pass the next test... Forget about actually preparing a child to think and live.. When Annie was in the states, she was horrified at the way teachers were expected to teach..