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Originally Posted by buggyone
Katz,
I can see and understand your viewpoint on education.
However, don't you believe it is very important to teach culture diversity, sex ed, environmental science, save the rain forest, and tolerance in schools in addition to the core subjects such as math, science, history, civics, English, etc?
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There are only so many hours in a school day for students, and TIME for teaching the classic core curriculum has been sacrificed to allow for TIME to teach the social engineering stuff.
Culture diversity, by the way, is best learned by studying and learning foreign languages and travel, and for the most part, our nation does ZIP for teaching foreign language before age 10 when kids' minds hear and absorb it best.
"Tolerance" does not need direct teaching about certain groups. Tolerance is learned from parents and teachers' and administrators' role modeling. If everyone is treated the same by the adults in charge, there is no need to teach "tolerance" in a classroom and textbook method. If the adult in charge does not show tolerance, they are pulled from duty.
The teacher in Mt. Dora who stated dislike for gay marriage on his personal Facebook page, on his personal computer and personal time, is an example of how swiftly "tolerance" is imposed. In the end, I doubt many student minds were changed by that incident, except that there's a lesson in it that censorship of your personal life is alive and well.