you understand little of the educational process and do your child a disservice with your meaningless diatribes.
Children learn faster and with more detail in year round settings. Please also remember that the educational system is designed to teach 30 kids in a room, not just your little flesh turd. The fact is retention of material goes up when information is repeated and extended/built on.
Also your child isn't a critical thinker because he doesn't understand the process of reading.
In no way does year round schooling cost more. It is the same amount of net days you idiot.
Also LOTS are foundational elements which must be built before HOTS can begin. If a teacher has to spend massive amounts of their time rebuilding the foundations of LOTS it takes longer and is an less efficient process to get to HOTS. If fact many of the advantages of the home schooling environment take advantage of similar process year long schooling would use. So in fact the educational advantages of the year round schedule would increase the likely hood of a critical thinker and not just some factory worker.
Keep in mind that multiple teachers are in this thread and are constantly clownsuiting you before your next post.
Excuse me for quoting all of that. But it reminded me of something I used to do in college; when my friends made asses of themselves, I liked to take a picture of them to remind them later what gigantic asses they are. But let me just say… Wow. Name calling. Did I strike a nerve? Or did public education leave you with that as your one option when you're losing a debate? And who's clown suiting me? The same teachers that are currently part of a public education system that is completely failing?
As for year round school costing the same; Excuse me for confusing you with the other person that stated "... really I think we need to stop giving kids summers off school. Just make them go year-round and compensate teachers accordingly." when we were talking about teachers pay. Up until this last post, I thought you and Nutzkicked were the same person. My apologies for both of your regurgitated talking points seeming similar.
I fully understand the whole "spending the first month making up what a kid learned in the previous year" argument. And I agree. HOWEVER. If a kid was REALLY LEARNING IT, THEY WOULDN'T rough ridin' FORGET IT! Do you get that? Should I bold that for you? Possibly call you an idiot when you ignore this argument? How about numb nutz? Flesh turd? Any of those child like assaults spark something in your brain other than... how did I put that before? "REGURGITATING TALKING POINTS".... Sorry for using the same statement "REGURGITATING TALKING POINTS" twice in the same post but someone once told me when you're dealing with someone incapable of independent thought, repetition is a useful tool to teach them something. It took me a while to understand this method until I remembered a time I was training my dog not to crap on the carpet. I firmly told him "No. Shitting on the carpet is BAD!" and did this every time. He eventually stopped shitting on the carpet, because of the repetition tactic I used. Of course he fell for it, because dogs are so stupid. But then again, every once in a while, when he couldn't get out of the house fast enough, he would panic and crap on the carpet. I figured I wouldn't be so hard on him, because he was not capable of independent thought and probably resorted back to primal instincts and crap on the carpet anyway. But whatever, what were we talking about? Yes. I remember now; I have a good memory. We were talking about year round schooling and you made the fantastic point that year round education is often used in homeschooling and there are many many facts and lots and lots of research done by smart people saying this is good. I'm going to say something that may surprise you. Of course, you already think I'm an idiot and my kid is a flesh turd as you so colorfully put it, so maybe not. I agree. Education never stops. Kids are constantly learning. We employ this type of education in our home. Although, I didn't call it what it really is to us, because I figured you wouldn't get it. We're employing something known as "un-schooling" I'm sure you're aware of it because you're so smart and you've spent the last ten years clown suiting anyone that has an opinion on how their child should be raised. And by clown suiting I mean, resorting to childish name calling. For the intellectually challenged, un-schooling is a tactic that has been educating people since the very beginning of human existence. We don’t sit at a table. We don’t memorize useless facts. We don’t do work-sheets. We don’t really have a curriculum. We learn through real life experiences. This may seem crazy for you, and I don’t have any fancy graphs or charts to show you how smart my kid is. I tried to come up with some metrics and even started making a standardized test, but after I made my kid take it, he panicked and crap on the carpet. But I have a feeling you knew that with your uncanny ability to guess his nickname, “Flesh Turd”. Here’s the most simplified way I can describe unschooling to you, because I know this might be a tough concept, and you may need to read this a couple of times. I’ll be sure to invite you back to this thread every day with a little PM so that you can re-read and get your daily dose of repetition with hopes that you’ll learn this new fangled way of teaching. Here it is. Wait for it. We let our kid decide what he wants to learn.
SHOCK HORROR!!! OMG, WTF? DHJSWITHS? (Did he just say what I thought he said?) Yes. Absurd, isn’t it? I know what you’re thinking. “Lazy little flesh turd probably just sits in front of the TV all day, every day, doesn’t he?” Sometimes. You’d be amazed at how much he learns doing that even. But no; he doesn’t do that everyday, and in fact – when comparing him to myself at his age – someone who was brought up in public education… and even comparing him to his friends that are currently in public education, he watches about ¼ of the average kid. I would say in the range of 4-6 hours a week. Sometimes none at all in a week – sometimes double that amount. You may be asking – what has he learned? Well, earlier this year, he was in Kindergarten. I know, right? Real honest to God government run rough ridin' kindergarten. I’m such a putz, right? Anyway, when he was in kindergarten which I’m only counting to mid December when we realized we were wrong to go with the flow and tell ourselves our fears of a crappy public education were unfounded – he learned how to write the entire alphabet – count up to 25 and simple things such as rhyming words & patterns. I referenced in an earlier post a patterns worksheet “nickel, nickel, dime; nickel, nickel, dime; nickel, nickel _____” fill in the blank – real worksheet; real mind bending stuff. Get this – he even memorized/read a fancy little book about “a cat who sat” who then later “ate a rat.” Needless to say, poor little flesh turd was bored to tears. He came home from school telling us his brain didn’t work right because the teacher told him if he couldn’t stay focused long enough to see what the cat ate, he would have to sit in for his recess. There was also an issue where he had to sit in from recess because he lost his pencil. I don’t blame his teacher – she was too busy cramming for a standardized test to remember he was only 5 and sitting still and shutting the eff up is sometimes difficult for someone at that age when their broken little brains are so busy not staying focused on mind numbing tasks. Fearing our little flesh turd would eventually grow up thinking he was stupid because he failed to see the importance of nickel, nickel, dime worksheets by the dozens – we pulled him out. Since that time, we’ve not done much. He wired a large scale wiring schematic and developed an understanding of how electricity works. He then, “completely on his own”, made comparisons of electrical circuits to the human brain. I doubt however he thought of this completely on his own however – he probably learned it by sitting on his ass watching TV on one of his “I don’t give a crap days”. After coming to this revelation – he decided he wanted to see a real brain – which I obliged by helping him dissect a turkey brain his cousin had shot this turkey season. He also had many questions about the turkey’s heart, lungs, liver & intestines – then explained to his mother later that night at diner how his grilled salmon would be turned into poop after his body had absorbed all of the vital nutrients. Which made me feel good, because I was fearful that dissecting a turkey at such an early age might give him an unhealthy fascination with organs which would most definitely turn him into a serial killer some day. We also discussed how wing structures obtain lift and showed him on the turkey’s wings how even nature uses this basic principle in flight. He knew turkeys could fly btw, because he’s not a rough ridin' idiot. Recently, (several months after the turkey dissection) while visiting a flight museum – he pointed out the shape of the wing and explained to a complete stranger how air moving faster over the top of the wing produced low pressure which in turn created higher pressure on the bottom of the wing which results in generating lift – like a turkey wing. The stranger promptly told him that turkey’s couldn’t fly and my 6 year old son clown-suited him without calling him any names. He simply explained that wild turkeys could fly because they weren’t fattened up like the ones you see on a farm. He probably learned that on one of our weekly trips to a local farm where we buy free range eggs & whole un-pasteurized milk. Anyway, this post is getting long enough and I’m sure I’ll get a couple of mindless :dnr: from some ape thumping his chest to show everyone his/her incredible reading comprehension.
But here’s my final point directed towards you. I got in this thread to share my opinion as the premise of the topic suggested public education is broken and needs fixing. I agree and shared my opinion on why it’s broken. I’m rather firm in my beliefs and I don’t feel the need to bow down to you. I don’t see you as inferior and I don’t see myself as superior. I’m okay with where my child is. I’m completely okay with my feelings on this subject. I’m completely okay with your thoughts on this subject. If I resorted to name calling, please consider it tongue in cheek and much of what I post is satirical. I firmly disagree with you and that’s okay. I don’t see the purpose of extending a school year when the very foundation of the school system is broken. It’s what people like to call “throwing money at a problem” oops… suggesting additional spending pisses you off. How about, beating a dead horse? That do anything for you?
