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A math teacher in Oklahoma writes:
“At my professional development class for math teachers, I’m starting to hear the term “low confidence learners” as a euphemism for the d*mb kids.
“I think this is great! Having a euphemism for the single biggest reality that we teachers wrestle with everyday — some kids are smarter than others — means that at least the concept is officially thinkable. Before we had a euphemism, we had to pretend that everybody was equal in their math capabilities, which was hugely dysfunctional from a teaching standpoint in all sorts of ways, as you can easily imagine.
Maybe if the public schools accepted reality, they could educate all the children. Ignoring the fact that children learn at different rates, and that some are better able to grasp complex problems then others, means that those children (now labeled "low confidence learners") who need extra help do not get it.
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Another euphemism brought to you by the public schools “low confidence learners”
A math teacher in Oklahoma writes:
“At my professional development class for math teachers, I’m starting to hear the term “low confidence learners” as a euphemism for the d*mb kids.
“I think this is great! Having a euphemism for the single biggest reality that we teachers wrestle with everyday — some kids are smarter than others — means that at least the concept is officially thinkable. Before we had a euphemism, we had to pretend that everybody was equal in their math capabilities, which was hugely dysfunctional from a teaching standpoint in all sorts of ways, as you can easily imagine.
Maybe if the public schools accepted reality, they could educate all the children. Ignoring the fact that children learn at different rates, and that some are better able to grasp complex problems then others, means that those children (now labeled "low confidence learners") who need extra help do not get it.
- Alasandra Addresses The Eight Homeschooling Concerns Educators Had And Offers Eight Public School Concerns She Has
The post Educators Criticize Homeschooling list eight homeschooling concerns. This is my reply to them. 1. Deprive the child of important social experiences. I assure you homeschooled children aren't deprived of social experiences. Some homeschool...
- Aelfric Worries About Socialization Of Homeschoolers
Aelfric says I am all for the right of a parent to home-school his or her child, but it's a choice to be carefully undertaken. Few parents can bring the intellectual diversity and educational acumen to bear that the panoply of school teachers could...
- Why Homeschool: Why We Homeschool - Part 2
Visit Why Homeschool: Why We Homeschool - Part 2 Part of our curriculum was Consumer Math. The book we used had chapters on how to balance a checkbook, how to create a budget, how to fill out an income tax form, how to calculate interest on a loan and...
- Homeschool Regulation: The Revenge Of The Failures
Visit WorldNetDaily to read Homeschool regulation: The revenge of the failures by Bruce N. Shortt, Ph.D. By attacking homeschool parents, Bounds is playing a familiar game. The goal is to distract the public's attention from the abject failure of...
- The Other S Word
For some reason in today's politically correct world, it's still OK to bash homeschoolers. First homeschoolers were attacked on the academic front. How could parents possibly be qualified to teach their own children unless they had teacher's...