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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I live in one of the leftier places in the country, and the school district my kids are in bears little resemblence to what bilmore describes above, which makes me suspect this "teach self-esteem movement" is the same sort of guide to educational policy that Trading Places was to trading commodities futures.
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Just like the Rs like to run against McGovern, the advocates for a curriculum focused on standardized tests like to attack some kind of hippie free for all education that I seemed to have missed altogether (and my mother taught school for over 30 years).
Many of us have nothing against tests, but it's the standardized test and the curriculum focused on beating the test rather than learning the lesson that I find problematic.
But for some reason, it seems like this hippie-dippie curriculum that so upsets people is only used in the fly-over red states.
