School: Americans Don’t Have Right to Bear Arms

[Fishing_Cabin]

I feel that the issue is at multiple levels.

There is a good bit of "revisionist history" where today those are looking back and trying to fit their own ideals in to events in history.

There is a good bit of "isolationist" and "liberal" slant too. Part is in an effort to encourage critical thinking, but other parts I feel are more to convince students that certain ideals are a good thing, while others that the teachers or faculty disagree with are not.

I feel the text book companies are also trying to focus on more of the liberal and revisionist slant as well.

As far as the schools here being underfunded...I don't see how, unless we are to say that most all government institutions are underfunded. Beyond the basic tax monies they receive, the schools also get so much from the NC educational lottery, plus the schools get any monies from the sale of seized property. Comparing the facilities now, to when I was in school is almost impossible, as there has been so much change, and improvement. Compare it to any changes in say the local city hall, or PD or FD or EMS, or public works, its like the schools are way out front, and the others are mostly stuck back in time.

 

[pturner67]

“The courts have consistently determined that the Second Amendment does not ensure each individual the right to bear arms,” the worksheet states.

“This means that the rights of this amendment are not extended to the individual citizens of the states,” the worksheet reads.

I just just love liberal indoctrination

I guess direct quotes from the founding fathers have no meaning then....

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them."
George Mason
Co-author of the Second Amendment

"And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the Press, or the rights of Conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; …"
Samuel Adams

"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that's good."
George Washington

"The great object is that every man be armed." and "Everyone who is able may have a gun."
Patrick Henry

 

[scrubcedar]

pturner, you're assuming they are interested in the truth.

You're not understanding the extent the teaching profession has been taken over by ideologues.
The teachers I grew up with would have eaten these people alive and whole. I know because I watched it happen more than once.
We had our share of jerks and weirdo's to deal with, but they were focused on teaching, not indoctrinating. We respected them because they earned it. The teachers these days talk about how no one respects them, I'm sorry respect is earned.
I volunteered in the schools my kids were attending from the time they were elementary school. I ended up through an odd circumstance becoming an expert on spiders and spent hours in the school teaching about them.
There was a point where I taught a weeks worth of science classes for a teacher in my kids middle school. We caught, preserved, then classified a large number of spiders from a field next to the school. These were the kids who were having "academic challenges" and were supposed to be nearly unteachable because of their "attitude problems".
I decided I would teach them in the same way I enjoyed being taught, tough and no nonsense, but respectful of them as individuals. Sure enough, just like magic , it worked. The teacher started out sitting next to me, then she moved to her desk and worked on paperwork. By the time we were done she wasn't there half the time. Remember these were the "hard cases".

I just acted like the teachers I remembered with kindness and respect.

They responded just like I did.

A welcome byproduct of this was my son suddenly had four times as many friends looking out for him because his dad was "cool". No magic involved, heck, not a single mysterious thing or even an original idea.
Was I their regular teacher? No. Was it a years worth of classes, an entirely different challenge than the one I faced? Once again, no.

My point is this, these are not the teachers we remember and learned so much from. Some of them are still, thank goodness, but they are very much the minority.

 

[johnwilliamson062]

Yesterday I was building a "livestock tractor"(rabbits). I had the design more or less in my head(stretcher with an A-frame roof), but wasn't sure of the angles I wanted to cut or the exact length of the roof of the A-frame.

I thought to myself, I could do a little bit of trig and figure out the angles.
I could do a little bit of calculus and figure out the optimum angle and length of these boards with the restraints of available scrap wood.
I thought about it for about ten seconds and decided it would be faster to use some very short scrap to build a small model. Five minutes later I had a design I am guessing is within a few percentage points of the optimum. I might even donate it to my niece's dollhouse. Had I gone the math route it probably would have been 30 minutes.

My point being, schools now concentrate on teaching theoretical math and science that the vast majority of students simply never use. Part of this is due to the "everyone needs to go to a 4 year university" complex that has developed in the US. I remember seeing a chart in my Freshman Algebra class that indicated plumbers used calculus on a daily basis. In an attempt to teach EVERYONE subjects some students really can't handle, schools are phasing out subjects almost all students can handle that are relevant in our daily lives.