I failed to emphasize my sarcasm. Sorry.
I guess Orlando is the happiest place on earthI failed to emphasize my sarcasm. Sorry.
Way to make your mother's proud Orlando!
#winning
I could have told ya Tampa would be in the top 10.
Norrow thinking. It does effect you. You have no issue with your schools teaching your children issues regarding homosexuality, same sex marriage, same sex parenting and all the issues surrounding it's tolerance?
I have 0 issues with society teaching that it's ok to accept people just because they are different. Wasn't too long ago that a similar statement could have been made: "You have no issue with schools letting blacks go with whites and teaching that letting them vote/drink water out of the same fountain is ok? Or perhaps: You have no issue with women being allowed to go to school and get an education and vote?"
Imagine how awesome America would of been without Lincoln!
Agreed, however it is difficult considering how available the information is now an how prevalent it is in the media. Look at the recent Newsweek cover as a prime example. The information is out there, and I believe we do our children a disservice by not informing them.
I really think we should be ranked higherI could have told ya Tampa would be in the top 10.
There's definitely some slutty...I mean...smutty sh*t going on around here.
-T1
Can you direct me to where these schools are located that are informing all these students of homosexuality related things? It seems as if you're arguing that schools across the nation spend a lot of time teaching and talking about homosexuality. The idea that this is happening on a broad scale is pure paranoia.
None of our constitution, none of the declaration of independence was designed to affect how individuals treat each other. It was all about the compact between the government and the citizens.
- this sort of thinking has always irritated me. You dismiss by using that sort of reverse strawman that it is not schools place to teach social interaction. It is not schools place to teach acceptance of behaviors of others. It is not their place to teach anything but academics but since they fail so miserably at doing that, they have to fill their time teaching things that are not their role to teach.
I wholeheartedly agree even though we both know this isn't reality. This is why even though I despise smoking I hate public places smoking bans especially in bars. Let me as a business owner decide if I want my business to have smoking and let consumers decide if they want in. Like I said, not reality.
Again in a vacuum I agree, but of course this isn't reality. A school has to operate as best for the majority AND minority to be best for all. If a kid is getting beat up because he's black, or white, or gay, or straight it behooves schools to try and get people to tolerate one another. You can't teach me if I'm constantly complaining about having to sit in the same row as Johnny black boy. A hidden curriculum has always existed in schools and probably always will. Schools are largely about teaching kids how to act in society. They use bells to teach getting places on times and talk about being patient, think of the stuff you did in kindergarten, stand in lines. I also think parents do such a crappy job nowdays schools get stuck teaching things like personal hygiene that they shouldn't have to. Again it's not ideal and maybe not even the schools place, but it is reality. And school is about more than academics, it's about preparing you to live as an adult in society. And because public schools have mixes of black, white, hispanic, gay, straight, they are going to have to at least attempt to teach them to get along or they can't even begin to think about teaching academics.
You nailed it here, Eric. My sentiment exactly.
I agree with you. I don't think people realize how big the porn industry is here in Tampa. Not just people watching it, but being filmed/made.
School needs to establish and secure a safe educational environement. Schools need to develop strict behavior rules and firm consequences for violent behaviors. We don't need to like, get along or enjoy each others company but we do need to behave appropriately. Tolerate one another? By definition - Allow the existence, occurrence, or practice of (something that one does not necessarily like or agree with) without interference. Yes.
Couldn't agree more....but I still don't see the widespread embracing or celebrating...but it seems as if some thing not denouncing=celebrating.
Does the school put up gay pride month posters yet disallow religious posters?
I live in Kansas and haven't heard of such a thing anywhere. I know if you search you can always find a school that does weird things, but doesn't mean any of it is happening on a wide scale.
I agree. It's that type of selective thinking and action with social issues that is outright disturbing.
A couple of things.....
We have none of these in any of the districts i have worked in or visited in my career. Neither has a place.
We should never quit striving to have the best education system in the world...but some of the comparisons to other countries are misleading at best. We don't track kids like other schools do, we are attempting to educate everyone. The exclusion rates of some of these countries are pretty shocking. This isn't to say our system is perfect by any means, but if we took out a lot of low performers in school (like some countries ahead of us do) from our results we could jump the ladder pretty fast.
Nailed it!
Replace the word schools with parenting.
Then you should homeschool your kids or take them to a private school that best fits your wishes. I don't really disagree, but school is where a lot of kids learn things that parents AREN'T doing for them. Kudos for you for doing a good job, but it isn't the norm and frankly society has forced a lot of schools to do things most of us think they shouldn't.
a question you have to ask yourself is which is the cart and which is the horse. Have liberal/progressives created the situation over time where less parents are actively involved to give an excuse as to their further meddling in the education system? There does seem to be a pattern of things being crafted and pushed in a way to break down nuclear families and increase governmental dependency.
I don't know that I'd put this on one "side." I live in a very conservative state and actually in a very conservative area of that state. A lot of our parents are freaking awful. My area is white, uber religious, and poor. A lot of them rail against the government while being on government aid.
this is correct. D, I applaud you and do not doubt that you do a great job. However, and sadly, you are not the norm.
This is an incredibly major and important point being missed here. There are certain requirements that have to be met for both an environment being conducive to learning and a student being receptive to what's being taught. Sadly, the lack of parenting in place makes it extremely difficult for educators to perform their job, so now they have to adopt more responsibility for teaching kids what their parents should have taught them in order to perform their first task.
but an effect of that is to raise those children with them having even a higher expectation of them being able to be hands off on their kids and the state taking more responsibility for their kids.
Let's face it the unintelligent and people who were born to poor (not financially, crappy) parents are having a lot of kids while intelligent and good parents are having few. It really is playing out just like the movie...except I don't know that this has a happy ending.
It's pretty stinking funny too
Right below would be west palm beach,florida and boca raton, florida lol
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