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The next time I am writing something that matters I will proofread. In other news, we are on an Internet forum. It really doesn't matter. Relax a bit. Are you one of those people who corrects the guy who says "I waited forever for a table at that restaurant" by telling them that they didn't actually wait forever?
It always cracks me up when people resort to being the grammar police. This is an informal forum. People write the way they speak. When we speak, we don't pronounce things like apostrophes so we don't think about them when posting informally. Ditto for confusing to, two and too. We need to read with our ears here because this is really a conversation and we don't think about spelling and punctuation in conversations. We think about how things sound. So something like misuse of an apostrophe is irrelevant.
I'm sure I could pass all of it with minimal studying except for the portions on Greek and Latin. None of this is stuff you wouldn't learn in honors classes in high school...except for Greek and Latin, which nobody needs anyway.
I shudder to think at what the core curriculum would look like based on "need."
The would be modern curriculum:
~Microsoft Word
~Microsoft Excel
~Microsoft Powerpoint
~Outlook
~Mathematics (just the basics. Who needs geometry or logic?)
~Science
Look at the curricula taught at schools which educate the children at the 1%. Your future political rulers and corporate masters are studying the classical curriculum.
As for dumbing down, some see a conspiracy. I do not. I see a deeply anti-intellectual American culture in which teachers (the good ones are very much intellectual outliers) are forced to adjust their aspirations of opening minds when they must process year after year of minds circumscribed at home and turned to mush outwith.
The would be modern curriculum:
~Microsoft Word
~Microsoft Excel
~Microsoft Powerpoint
~Outlook
~Mathematics (just the basics. Who needs geometry or logic?)
~Science
Look at the curricula taught at schools which educate the children at the 1%. Your future political rulers and corporate masters are studying the classical curriculum.
As for dumbing down, some see a conspiracy. I do not. I see a deeply anti-intellectual American culture in which teachers (the good ones are very much intellectual outliers) are forced to adjust their aspirations of opening minds when they must process year after year of minds circumscribed at home and turned to mush outwith.
I think I built myself a soap box there.
Your modern curriculum list is a little extreme (on purpose I'm sure), but you raise a very valid point. Nowadays, you cannot step too far away from the government/administrative approved teaching outlines.
Your modern curriculum list is a little extreme (on purpose I'm sure), but you raise a very valid point. Nowadays, you cannot step too far away from the government/administrative approved teaching outlines.
Oh we are "moving forward" alright.
CTE certification flurry is sweeping the nation.
Career and Technical education.
You have to have a career background to get CTE certified.
And many regions are paying for the classes to get certified and a probationary cert to get in the classroom for 1 year.
Within a year 11 year old students will know exactly what career path they will be on (sarcasm here) thanks to these career classes.
The would be modern curriculum:
~Microsoft Word
~Microsoft Excel
~Microsoft Powerpoint
~Outlook
~Mathematics (just the basics. Who needs geometry or logic?)
~Science
Look at the curricula taught at schools which educate the children at the 1%. Your future political rulers and corporate masters are studying the classical curriculum.
As for dumbing down, some see a conspiracy. I do not. I see a deeply anti-intellectual American culture in which teachers (the good ones are very much intellectual outliers) are forced to adjust their aspirations of opening minds when they must process year after year of minds circumscribed at home and turned to mush outwith.
I think I built myself a soap box there.
Explain how mastering Latin and Greek is an essential part of a well-rounded education.
Your modern curriculum list is a little extreme (on purpose I'm sure), but you raise a very valid point. Nowadays, you cannot step too far away from the government/administrative approved teaching outlines.
It's a reflection of what goes up on these boards nearly every minute.
"My kid doesn't need a year of British lit, he needs to know PowerPoint!"
"Fine Arts?! Lol. I ain't raisin' no *****!"
"French? German? Latin? Chinese? Why bother? They won't be able to speak it anyway."
"History is boring. Excel is useful."
"STEM is where it's at."
I would just love to see the long term career prospects of someone who can punch numbers into excel and armed with a 6th grade vocabulary (read: a below-average business major).
Explain how mastering Latin and Greek is an essential part of a well-rounded education.
I'll be here waiting.
Believe it or not Latin and Greek are both languages that contain the roots of English words. Taking 4 years of Latin and studying Greek roots was what helped me with high grades on the SATs back in the early 1960s.
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It always cracks me up when people resort to being the grammar police. This is an informal forum. People write the way they speak. When we speak, we don't pronounce things like apostrophes so we don't think about them when posting informally. Ditto for confusing to, two and too. We need to read with our ears here because this is really a conversation and we don't think about spelling and punctuation in conversations. We think about how things sound. So something like misuse of an apostrophe is irrelevant.
