Why Aren't Schools Teaching Our Children Their Rig

[DipStick]

Originally Posted by awpitt

I can't speak for schools in Oaklahoma but I do know that MD schools teach govt (3 branches, checks & balances, etc) in 5th grade. American History is taught in 8th grade (Colonial - reconstruction) and 9th grade (Reconstruction - present).

Yep.

Originally Posted by Cletus_Vandam

When I was in 9th grade they did teach me all that stuff. Taxes, how to write checks, how to keep a balanced check book etc. But then again, a few years earlier when I was in 6th grade, they also showed me how to make a bookcase, how to cook, and how to sew.

They still do.

[awpitt]

Originally Posted by EmptyTimCup

yeah but who is writing the text books ?



I want no slant or opinions .... only X,Y, and Z happened on 1,2,3

With a few clicks of your mouse, you can look up the authors. Here's the list of books for SMCPS...

Textbooks | Curriculum and Instruction @ smcps.org

Do you have kids in school? How involved are you in the school? I read through my kid's books and I know their teachers and they know me so I know what's being taught to my kids. I don't count on talking heads to tell me what's going on in the schools.

Also, the public reviews any books before they're adopted by the SMCPS.

Originally Posted by SMCPS

Textbooks are displayed publicly in all three St. Mary’s County public libraries and at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction for public preview before adoption. Notices of such adoptions appear in the local press.

[DipStick]

Originally Posted by awpitt

I don't count on talking heads to tell me what's going on in the schools.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

[Cletus_Vandam]

Originally Posted by DipStick

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner????

[EmptyTimCup]

Originally Posted by awpitt

Do you have kids in school? How involved are you in the school? I read through my kid's books and I know their teachers and they know me so I know what's being taught to my kids. I don't count on talking heads to tell me what's going on in the schools.

I have a 15 yr old in CCPS (I have not control over where she goes to school ) ... and since i live in PG my youngest would be in PGCPC ... but I am going to send her to private schools


b4 my 15 yr old move south to Charles County with her mother, she was getting c' and d's and generally doing poorly ... maybe because she was on of the few white girls ... or the teachers just suck

with in 3 weeks of moving to CCPS her grades were way up and she came home one evening, commenting to her mother how much better her new school was, the teachers actually teach !!!!

[awpitt]

Originally Posted by EmptyTimCup

I have a 15 yr old in CCPS (I have not control over where she goes to school ) ... and since i live in PG my youngest would be in PGCPC ... but I am going to send her to private schools


b4 my 15 yr old move south to Charles County with her mother, she was getting c' and d's and generally doing poorly ... maybe because she was on of the few white girls ... or the teachers just suck

with in 3 weeks of moving to CCPS her grades were way up and she came home one evening, commenting to her mother how much better her new school was, the teachers actually teach !!!!

I am gald to hear your daughter's situation has improved. I've had problems from time to time with what's been going on with my kids in school but I've been lucky in that I've been able to get the issues worked out with the teachers with good results. I wouldn't regard the PGCPS as typical. That system is well know for having lots of problems.

[ImnoMensa]

Originally Posted by awpitt

I am gald to hear your daughter's situation has improved. I've had problems from time to time with what's been going on with my kids in school but I've been lucky in that I've been able to get the issues worked out with the teachers with good results. I wouldn't regard the PGCPS as typical. That system is well know for having lots of problems.

The same problems as the rest of PG county has.

[Lenny]

Originally Posted by ImnoMensa

The same problems as the rest of PG county has.

When we moved to Maryland 20 years ago, we talked to the vice principal at one of the P.G. Co. schools. She told us then that she lived in Ann Arundel Co because of the schols and that we (being white like her) should never place our children in P.G. Co. schools. We didn't.

[EmptyTimCup]

Originally Posted by Lenny

When we moved to Maryland 20 years ago, we talked to the vice principal at one of the P.G. Co. schools. She told us then that she lived in Ann Arundel Co because of the schols and that we (being white like her) should never place our children in P.G. Co. schools. We didn't.

Wow .................


when I was in Elementary School (3rd-6th) in the 70's there was 1 black kid in my class and I am not sure where he lived in River Ridge [most of us lived around the school ..... ]



.....by the time I graduated from Oxon Hill HS in 1984 it was a 50 / 50 mix



and did not seem too different when my son went there in 1998 / 99

[PsyOps]

Originally Posted by west

well, as a parent of 4, i believe children don't need to know their "rights and freedoms" until they reach a certain age....like 18 or so

Please tell me you forgot the