Quote:When was the last time you were in a school? Your thoughts seem very outdated.


A school teaches so many different things other than just reading, writing and math. It appears no matter what I say about this, you will have a very jaded view of public schools. There is a lot of good that goes on in them and at my school I teach at, there is a wide range of students. Students that come from low income families and high income families. Students of all races and religions. They learn to respect one another and work together even through their differences.


It seems you didn't have a very good public school experience and that sucks. You're free to come up to Maryland and check out my school. I think you would be surprised.


Also.... in my PE class, we learn how to accept losing and learn from it. It's not always "everyone's a winner."

 

I exited public school in the early '80's.  My point of view might seem "outdated" to someone much younger than me.

 

That being said, school is about learning.  That's been taken away on so many levels.  In today's schools, kids don't actually learn, they are indoctrinated and in a vast majority of the cases it's to the left.  What do schools teach about guns?  What about the civil war?  What about the civil rights fight?  Instead of actual FACTS students are taught OPINION.

 

I don't doubt that you or other teachers do an excellent job, but let me ask you this since you're a PE coach.  I don't know what grade you teach, but it doesn't really matter.  Would you allow your students to play "smear the queer"?  What about dodge ball?  Are any of your students allowed to "lose" a game?  Are any allowed to fail?  I ask this because failure is a very important lesson to teach.

 

Take a look at today's "millennials".  They (along with many liberals) can't handle the fact that a "conservative" (or Republican) is going to enter the White House in a couple of days.  Many "protests" are planned for the inauguration because they actually can't handle the fact that they LOST.

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