Sometimes reading King's blog on the latest in academia gives me nightmares. For example this comparison of the index of math books tells you all you need to know about the disintegration of public education. The index for the letter F in a 1973 math book:
In the 1973 book, for example, the index for the letter "F" included
"factors, factoring, fallacies, finite decimal, finite set, formulas,
fractions, and functions."
Seems pretty normal, eh? Math terms. Pretty much what you'd expect to find. How does that compare to the index in a 1998 textbook?
" In the 1998 book, the index listed "families (in poverty data), fast
food nutrition data, fat in fast food, feasibility study, feeding
tours, ferris wheel, fish, fishing, flags, flight, floor plan, flower
beds, food, football, Ford Mustang, franchises, and fund-raising
carnival."
I could just throw up. It's everything you need to know about why our kids are scoring lower in comparison to their international peers. Chock full of social propaganda crap.
My kids are in public school and I've felt they've been pretty insulated here in the country from the radical agenda pushed in urban schools. (We still have Christmas concerts. Shhh. Don't tell. I feel like part of a subversive underground every time I attend one. I'm even afraid to blog about it because I know we have at least one ACLU wacko locally who's made trouble for one local school board.)
But wait! There's more!
"How often does your 6th-grade daughter have oral sex?"
If the question offends you, then talk to the school officials at Shrewsbury, Mass. But don't expect a sympathetic response.
When
Mark Fisher protested quizzing his 12-year-old daughter about oral sex
(among other topics), the school authorities asserted their right to
gather such information without his consent.
Yes. They must have my express written permission to give my child an aspirin. They will suspend my child for making a gun with their hand. But, it's none of my bloody business if they want to take my daughter to have an abortion or quiz a child about oral sex.
We don't have a lot of options where we live, but I've been threatening the kids with private christian school, an idea they're not very keen on. The more crap I read like this, the more I'm thinking that train may have already left the station.
