By Daisy Luther
Sometimes I read stuff and think, this has to be satire. Over the past few years, I can’t believe how many articles I’ve prefaced with, “I know it seems like satire, but it’s not.”
Today is no different. If you need more reasons to homeschool your kids (and you’re not doing so already) then read on.
We all know that the education system has been on the decline for years. Folks aren’t as worried about academic achievements as they are the feelings of the children, creating a crybaby culture that gives everyone a trophy just for showing up. Schools are indoctrination centers, churning out new batches of socially correct, debt-dependent slaves who have 13 years of brainwashing umm… training errr… “education” behind them.
But now, we may have just hit rock bottom.
A teacher in Alabama is on administrative leave after he or she (the identity of the teacher has not been released) decided to make a math lesson more relevant for an 8th grade class. An outraged parent “raised concerns” about the lesson that contained the following questions, as per The Washington Post.
- Ramon has an AK 47 with a 30 round clip. He usually misses 6 out of every 10 shots and he uses 13 rounds per driveby shooting. How many drive-by shootings can Ramon attempt before he has to steal more ammo and reload?
- Leroy has 2 ounces of cocaine. If he sells an eightball to Antonio for $320 and 2 grams to Juan for $85 per gram, what is the street value of the rest of his hold?
- Dwayne pimps 3 ho’s. If the price is $85 per trick, how many tricks per day must each ho turn to support Dwayne’s $800 per day crack habit?
- Raul wants to cut the pound of cocaine he bought for $40,000 to make a 20% profit. How many one ounce bags will he need to make to obtain the 20% profit?
- Desmond gets $200 for a stolen BMW, $150 for stealing a Corvette, and $100 for a 4×4. If he steals one BMW, 2 Corvettes and 3 4x4s, how many more Corvettes must he steal to have $900?
- Pedro got 6 years for murder. He also got $10,000 for the hit. If his common-law wife spends $100 of the hit money per month, how much money will be left when he gets out?
- If an average can of spray paint covers 22 square feet, and the average letter is 3 square feet, how many letters can be sprayed with three 8 ounce cans of spray paint with 20% paint left over?
- Tyrone knocked up four girls in the gang. There are 20 girls in the gang. What is the exact percentage of girls that Tyrone knocked up?
- LaShaundra is a lookout for the gang. Lacuna also has a boa constrictor that eats 5 rats per week at a cost of $5 per rat. If LaShaundra makes $700 per week as a lookout, how many weeks can she feed the boa on one week’s income?
- Marvin steals Juan’s skateboard. As Marvin skates away at 15 miles per hour, Juan loads his 357 Magnum. If it takes Juan 20 seconds to load his piece, how far away will Marvin be when he gets whacked?
I don’t know about you, but I would have done a whole lot more than politely calling the school to complain.
What. The. Heck.
First of all, some of those ridiculous questions don’t even have enough information to solve them. But I digress.
Not only do we need to separate school and state, we need to stop nonsense like this. We need to take charge the education our kids recieve. We need to set positive goals instead of giving them examples of how not to be, and then snickering about it.
Good reasons to homeschool
I really don’t like being the preachy mom who seems to feel her way is the only way. I understand that there are some very valid reasons for sending your kids to public school. Many of those reasons were mine before I got to a point at which I could work from home and educate my youngest child myself.
But now that we’ve taken the leap, it’s wonderful. It is easier than you think to get started.
But I’ve never regretted doing it for one single second. Sure, it’s a lot more hands on than shuffling her off to school. But it’s also been the most wonderful time we’ve ever spent together. We’ve learned, we’ve traveled, and we’ve truly immersed ourselves in learning, and I hope that these lessons that spark the curiousity last my daughter’s entire life. I hope that she always asks questions, searches for the answers, and lives fully, instead of sitting there getting brainwashed in a classroom setting.
And if your kids are older, don’t worry that you won’t be qualified to teach them. Older kids do very well learning on their own once they know how to actively learn instead of just sitting there in a classroom. My kiddo has learned all sorts of stuff I didn’t know. The internet is a wonderful too.
If you can find a way to homeschool, do it. Pull your kids out of school and teach them to be ethical, strong, critically-thinking human beings. Use the world as your classroom. You can’t expect kids getting an education like this to turn out to be the future leaders that this country needs.
Maybe the real revolution will not be what we expected at all, with civil war, protests, and violence. Maybe it will start quietly, a society of rebels educated at kitchen tables in homes across America as more parents refuse to leave their children’s futures in the hands of a public system with an agenda.
Nothing free is ever truly without a price.
Resources:
Homeschooling 101: A Guide to Getting Started
The Homeschool Highway: How to Navigate Your Way Without Getting Carsick
The Homeschool Highway 2: Further Down the Road
Separating School & State: How to Liberate America’s Families
The Unhurried Homeschooler: A Simple, Mercifully Short Book on Homeschooling
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education (Warning: If your teen reads this, expect them to be totally on board with Unschooling – it’s such a great book!)
What a shocking article! Even when we are geared up to believe the worst about our government run schools something new comes along to make it even worse.
That is crazy, but I do have to stand up for the public school system a bit. They aren’t all like that. Our public school is wonderful. The teachers cater their lesson plans quite well for the students and make learning fun. I wish all schools were this way, but I get that they aren’t.
Part of me would love to home school my children, but I know I’m just not the type of person who could do it. I think I’d burn out and it wouldn’t be fair to the kiddos.
Since the 1960s, when the Dept of Education got created, the American education level has declined. When it started, America was number 1 in the world. As the amount that the government is involved has increased, the rating has fallen until we are now number 36. Yet many in education that the federal government is doing the right thing.
Please, please let this math quiz be a horrible, horrible joke. I would have been on the phone, no, in person, complaining to the principal, the superintendent and all the school board members and would have contacting all forms of public media from newspaper, TV, radio and social media. I would also be contacting all other parents to make sure they knew what a horrendous ‘relevant’ math paper this is. And the name of the teacher would be announced to one and all.
On another note, I did not homeschool. My kids are in their late 30s – early 40s and back then, in my school district, the only real viable alternative was a church based school. What I did do, however, was to supplement their education in every way I could including pure educational matter like math at the grocery store, geography for trips, history of the town, why the industry was in the area, etc. The moral, ethics, honesty, reliability, problem-solving and such was approached on a daily basis. I often used the news comparing what was in the paper to what was on the TV, how someone was treated at school (often unfairly due to past behavior), and made them responsible for their behavior, following the rules, etc. On more than one occasion one of the 3 went to school with dirty clothes because they couldn’t be bothered putting in the hamper, unfinished homework, etc. It usually only took once, maybe twice for the 2nd son, before they learned the consequences of their behavior.
So, now that they are all in the workplace they are taken aback by the lack of knowledge, ethics, reliability of many of those they work with that are under the age of 35. One son, who reviews applicants for jobs, called to rant about one who showed up with his parents for the interview because he wanted someone to look out for his interests (high pay with no experience, 401K participation, maximum health/dental insurance, at least 3 weeks paid vacation plus time off between Christmas and New Year’s, etc). Needless to say he did not get the job.
Point – he’d been treated like royalty all thru school. Starting in kindergarten he got a sticker for showing up, to high school when he could be absent for finals because he wasn’t prepared to even college where a major project’s due date was extended because it was too hard to complete during the semester. He related all this as ‘personal history’ to show how good he was.
Okay, I’ve ranted enough. I’m almost 70 and I am fearful of what our leaders, the workforce, the general public will be in the very near future. We need to educate children, AT HOME, to be achievers with morals.
I remember this “test” from way back in the 90’s. It was written up as a joke….a very bad one at that. It went around the office I worked in. The one I saw was titled “The City of Los Angeles High School Math Proficiency Exam”.
According to WaPo:
“The quiz is an Internet meme that dates at least to the early 1990s and has been known as the “The L.A. Math Proficiency Test” or “The City of Los Angeles High School Math Proficiency Exam,” according to the website Snopes, which has compiled a brief history of the quiz making appearances in American (and Canadian) classrooms.”
Any teacher actually handing it out to his/her students is a brain dead idiot.
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Old joke, teacher was just stupid. We can’t all be comedians.