Re: the weight aginst evol


Robert J. Kolker <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Digs wrote:


I live in a section of Ohio which is a hotbed of Dominion Theology, and
the churches here (more than 80% of the population in southeastern Ohio
identifies with a church espousing Christian Nationalism) every school
levy for the past several years has been defeated at their urging.
Every extracurricular activity has been canceled that the students
cannot pay for themselves, including sports and music.

Anything that shuts down the public schools is a Good Thing. They are
illiteracy mills. Compare the performance of American students in math
and science against those in Europe or in the industrially advanced
Asian countries.

If you go back nearly fifty years, you will see it was not surprose that
the Soviet Union beat the U.S. in the field of space travel (initially).
Our schools were (and still are) so bad we did not have enough
mathematicians and engineers. And the few we had were too busy making
cars and t.v. sets.

The public nature and tax basing of our public schools guarantees that
they will be mediocre.

There is something here that I don't get - how come that the Soviet system,
with the entire society including schools public and/or tax based could
outperform a similar system in the US? Incidentally, almost the entire
education system in Norway has been that way for as long as I can remember,
and we are not quite that backward, are we? It did not take us long after
oil was found in the North Sea before we were able to get rid of the
American anti-union cowboys and take over oil prospecting and production all
by ourselves - and even exporting our know-how...

Maybe the problem is a bit more complex than just a question of public
schools or not.

Our system has no place for the unabashidly
gifted and brilliant. We don't know how to school either our retards or
our geniuses.

Bob Kolker



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