Yup, ‘twas Ohio. I keep details about myself to a bare minimum so I’m not too worried about it, and I’ll blow this account up at some point and start fresh.
I’m curious if civics is still being taught. I absolutely would believe a slow decline into academic Marxism has occurred for decades, but something tells me (purely anecdotally, to be fair) that around Obummer’s start, with the likes of common effing core, was when public schools properly chucked the critical thinking baby out with the bath water. Coincidentally though I also had one of those asshole hippie English teachers who’d dock you if you didn’t see the right themes in literature. Didn’t matter if you presented your own ideas and laid them out meticulously with a nice argument. People can knock literature discussion, but discussing themes can in fact be fun and educational, and you can apply critical thinking even to subjective ideas, but I digress... Point is I wonder how many people had shit teachers even if they had civics classes. I’m lucky my worst teacher was an English teacher, who thank God didn’t turn me off literature. Sorry for the rant lol.
Definitely not a rant! Our high school had coaches teaching civics, branches of Govt etc because they definitely weren't paying for a position to teach only civics. But yes, Obummer and let's not forget the "no child left behind" of the Bush era--participation ribbons for everyone! And yes, some of the worst of the worst were the "cool" English professors who also wanted to be 'shocking' --I was in VA but yeah, they must have been mass producing the tweed jacket, shaggy hair wire-rimmed glasses mustache/beard, khaki pants wearing rebels without a clue
That's amazing. Don't dox yourself but you can give a general idea of where this miracle took place?
Yup, ‘twas Ohio. I keep details about myself to a bare minimum so I’m not too worried about it, and I’ll blow this account up at some point and start fresh.
I’m curious if civics is still being taught. I absolutely would believe a slow decline into academic Marxism has occurred for decades, but something tells me (purely anecdotally, to be fair) that around Obummer’s start, with the likes of common effing core, was when public schools properly chucked the critical thinking baby out with the bath water. Coincidentally though I also had one of those asshole hippie English teachers who’d dock you if you didn’t see the right themes in literature. Didn’t matter if you presented your own ideas and laid them out meticulously with a nice argument. People can knock literature discussion, but discussing themes can in fact be fun and educational, and you can apply critical thinking even to subjective ideas, but I digress... Point is I wonder how many people had shit teachers even if they had civics classes. I’m lucky my worst teacher was an English teacher, who thank God didn’t turn me off literature. Sorry for the rant lol.
Definitely not a rant! Our high school had coaches teaching civics, branches of Govt etc because they definitely weren't paying for a position to teach only civics. But yes, Obummer and let's not forget the "no child left behind" of the Bush era--participation ribbons for everyone! And yes, some of the worst of the worst were the "cool" English professors who also wanted to be 'shocking' --I was in VA but yeah, they must have been mass producing the tweed jacket, shaggy hair wire-rimmed glasses mustache/beard, khaki pants wearing rebels without a clue