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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Wait...what? Children don't learn to write cursive in the US?! I'm from Germany and this shocks me. I had no idea! Ugh, guess this is just another thing I will have to teach my children on my own then -.-

Honestly, I think this is because many, not all, of our teachers are not the best and the brightest. [b]Education majors often attract the lowest performing college students[/b] and the course work often spends too much time on fuzzy educational theory instead of affording education majors expertise in content areas such as reading and math and science.

Signed a liberal Democrat who strongly favors charter schools, vouchers, gifted education, tracking, and alternative ways for teacher credentialing such as Teach for America.[/quote]

This is simply not true. I'm so tired of this misinformation that appears to be related to a single study that doesn't conclude what you hope it concludes and few people actually read.

Also, you can call yourself a liberal Democrat, but you really aren't with the positions you hold on education. Liberal Democrats are progressive and you are the definition of close-minded and ill informed. You seriously think TFA is a good idea? A program that doesn't train professional teachers and gives them a whopping five weeks of classroom management instruction before sending them to classrooms and reminding them that they only have to be there two years? And tracking? That has been consistently discredited by educational professionals due to its dead end classification of children and inability for students to move from track to track. Gifted education? There are so few students who are truly gifted that I suspect you really mean you want special classes for some academically advanced students, like perhaps your own, who are in no way gifted. You'd like that to be funded because you think your perceived academically advanced student is being underserved. Or maybe it's the FARMS students you are trying to stay away from. Hard to say. Point is, you have already shown yourself to be an unthoughtful and uneducated person about education and the antithesis of progressive.

Which is fine. Rock on with your limited notions. Just don't try to pass them off as progressive.

I'm so tired of nonsense from know nothings.[/quote]

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