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Guilty or Not Guilty - Teacher Education

Guilty or Not Guilty

  • Guilty?

    Votes: 3 42.9%
  • Not Guilty?

    Votes: 4 57.1%

  • Total voters
    7

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
I don't know how you got that out of the report, but whatever.

The public schools have overall done a really good job in education and also created a much less "in-bred" society and also created a great "mixing bowl" that has been an envy of many other nations. If this wasn't the case, how in the world could the U.S. be the world's #1 economic power that relies on education for its "brain" source? How is it that we've produced so many intellectuals, including many theologians? How is it that a black president could have been elected whereas a couple of centuries ago he would have been a slave, including in your state of Florida? :p
I think you are looking at days gone bye. The lack, thereof, has simply been unearthed with the last closure due to Covid. IMV. Maybe I am in an enclave of homeschoolers, but it has grown in capacity and in its effectiveness.

Homeschooling Blog - AOP Homeschooling reality is that you have bought into the "grooming" that DeSantis has been perpetrating on those that are unwary of his disingenuous tactic with his "culture wars" scheme that demands lock-step conformity that has long been a fascist/neo-fascist tactic. However, it appears that more people have caught on to his ruse as his poll numbers are declining. He may sell well in Florida :p, but I think more and more people in other states can see through this and through him.
I don't know about DeSantis, but I am buying into our local County School Board that has exemplified the issues at hand that I have mentioned.
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
Wow....thanks for taking me back to my younger days, growing up in a fundamentalist Church, where everything was taken hyper-literally and the "church leaders" seemingly had no capacity for abstract thought and creativity.
Hey, you gave the answer. I was just following your fundamentalist viewpoint to its apex.
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
@Kenny Quantifying it as a numerical value, how much spiritual damage is inflicted upon a child by glimpsing The Statue of David's peepee? Also, by what percentage is it reduced by reaching adulthood?

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it's a work of art.
 

mikkel_the_dane

My own religion
Maybe there is a disconnect here. I wasn't talking about politics or even world-wide issues but rather US Educational system.

Yeah, and we are still in general debates.
You are doing politics/morality about sex and that is not unique to the USA and as we are in general debates, you can't fence the debate in to be about the USA.
 

Subduction Zone

Veteran Member
Yes, then there are some in your camp that think porn is art too. ;)
Or more likely you do not understand either. The ultimate border between porn and art can be hard to draw. That is one of the problems with writing legislation about it. A sense for art is needed to make half decent porn. It is the aim of the two that is used to separate them. Art appeals to more than just the erotic. Where porn's aim is to appeal mainly to the erotic. It is possible that the man or woman that reacted so negatively to that statue were only drawn to its erotic image. For them it could have been porn. But most people see far more than just a piece of erotica. Ironically it tells us that if anyone's mind was In the Gutter, it was the minds of those that objected to it.
 

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
Premium Member
Or more likely you do not understand either. The ultimate border between porn and art can be hard to draw. That is one of the problems with writing legislation about it. A sense for art is needed to make half decent porn. It is the aim of the two that is used to separate them. Art appeals to more than just the erotic. Where porn's aim is to appeal mainly to the erotic. It is possible that the man or woman that reacted so negatively to that statue were only drawn to its erotic image. For them it could have been porn. But most people see far more than just a piece of erotica. Ironically it tells us that if anyone's mind was In the Gutter, it was the minds of those that objected to it.
I think I know the difference- the people who had a problem with the statue, have a problem.
 

Secret Chief

Very strong language
I put it in "General" - because it isn't, imv, a political issue but an educational issue.
Which is why I responded with a post comparing the American educational situation (in your view) with the English. You decided to put this thread in "General" rather than a geographically specific one, not me. Want to get off this roundabout?
 
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