If they have any stones, they'll put the prisoners who scribbled in the books on trial.
This is not a fringe jihadi decree. It is a core tenant of Islam. This is not a crazy Iranian thing. It happens in every country ruled by Islam.
If you don't understand that Islam is backward, barbaric, and evil, I don't know how to convince you.
Jeremy Lin is ethnically Chinese, but clearly American. He and his parents are the kind of immigrants and first-generation Americans that conservatives admire and liberals deride.
Everyone wants to get their kids into charter schools because of their high success rates. Their success rates are so high because they hold students to a high standard and don't have to tolerate disuptive, undisciplined students like other public schools do. And now the parents want the charter school to tolerate their kids' poor behavior, but probably still expect the same acedemic success. Stupid is as stupid does....
Students need less History and more Government and Civics. A general understanding of the timeline of major events is useful for keeping things in context and so you don’t look like an idiot, but the details are generally unimportant. Students who find those details fascinating can study them in college or read about them on their own. But the lack of understanding--or worse, misunderstanding--of how and why our form of government is supposed to work is killing our country.
Historical knowledge is not reinforced. Unlike math skills, which build upon previous skills and carry over to other subjects (Chemistry, Physics), History is largely self-contained. If you are dropped into the middle of a History class, you can catch on fairly quickly. You may have to play catch-up, but you don’t necessarily have to know what happened in 1840 to learn what happened in 1870. Try that in Trigonometry.
The problem with History as it is usually taught and tested is that it is very dry (full disclosure: my degree is in History). Yes, it can be spiced up but, in the end, it doesn't matter how colorfully you can describe an historical event if you get the dates, names, and places wrong. Teaching our foundational texts as historical documents suffers the same problem: the focus is on the dates, names, and places, and their true beauty and genius is glossed over and forgotten after the test.
So have you read it, or are you just being an ass?
Very funny. (the video, I mean)
Thumbing down clockwise is kind of a habit for some people. He kind of brings it on himself, though.
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