Vast Write Wing - August 2011

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Dave <Davewatson4@yahoo.com>

Hello jerky boys. I enjoy your show. Just wanted to point out, since you try to have proper English. When you give out a phone number give the number not a letter in the alphabet such as you do. It's zero not oh oh. Thanks.

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Yep! With positive outlooks like you have, it's a wonder that you manage to get up in the morning! You probably are so unhappy with your life that you could just as well stay in bed while the real world gets their jobs done.

The American dream? You never had it. Or, you missed it when the great opportunities of this world were being provided.

What a piss-poor attitude. I gotta tell you -- something that you and your right wing nut-buddies don't know -- There are millions of Americans who go out and earn a living and are very happy. You just like to bitch. And bitch. And bitch! And read right wing, goat choking talking points.

Jeez! You must be pretty popular at family reunions and dinners. "There's that old bitch Lynnie! He's talkin' again!"

I guess you were trying to be satirical and sarcastic in your bitchy-mentary. But, you came off sounding like an old geezer who hates everything about this country.

Get a life, get a real job. You have a poor mental attitude.

LS

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I know this will be hard for typical mammas and daddies to believe, but Obama’s social justice agenda has now even penetrated the way math is to be taught.

Look at the title of this new report just released by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc. (NCTM) -- Learning to Teach Mathematics for Social Justice: Negotiating Social Justice and Mathematical Goals by Tonya Gau Bartell, University of Delaware:

http://www.nctm.org/uploadedFiles/Journ ... artell.pdf

For an example of how this social justice program is already being put into practice and how this steals valuable class time away from the teaching of the basics, please read "Ethics: A Great Teaching Connector for All Learners," from the ASCD SmartBrief (Association of Supervisors and Curriculum Directors) website, Aug. 29, 2011:

http://whatworks.wholechildeducation.or ... l-learners


This is the promotional summary: "As kids mature, they begin to explore justice issues, asking, 'What is right? What is good?' Ethics is a universal theme, and integrating the study of ethics into class work is a great way to engage all learners, says Institute of Global Ethics' Paula Mirk. Read her guest Whole Child blog post for an example of one math class' exploration of justice and tips on how to plan your next ethics lesson."


In the report, a teacher creates student interest for building a bar graph by first asking, “How many of you have felt unfairly treated here at school?” Once they have listed three events for themselves that made them feel unfairly treated, they became "eagerly engaged" in the lesson (according to this report).

Why couldn't the question just as easily have been, "How many of you have done an unexpected good deed for someone else?" Wouldn't this have shown excellence in behavior and, hopefully, positive results for graphing?

NEVER LET A MATH WORD PROBLEM GO TO WASTE

Those who push social justice curriculum never want a math word problem to go to waste! Each of these is a great opportunity to indoctrinate children into the belief that they are victims of an oppressive, racist, sexist, and unjust America; that they should expect government to solve all their problems; that America’s wealth should be spread around; and that America’s free market, capitalistic system is unfair. It is this constant indoctrination from K through Grade 12 that can lead students to feel hostile, isolated, and justified in taking other people’s lives through violent means.

RAIN FOREST ALGEBRA

Some years ago our Texas State Board of Education members had to vote against what was then called “Rain Forest Math” because there were no actual math problems for 100+ pages into the textbook; it was all environmental brainwashing.

NCTM was behind this type of math "reformation” back then; therefore, they are only too glad to align themselves with Obama’s social justice agenda which is an even further corruption of the math lessons that should be taught to children.

IDEA

Here's a novel idea: What about teaching children traditionally based and historically proven math instead of NCTM's politically-driven ideology that demands equity over excellence and "process" over results?

HOW DID WE GET HERE?

How did our country get to the place where the social justice agenda is set to take over even our students’ math classes, and what can we do to thwart this effort?

First, we must be informed; and this is why we need to read Niki Hayes’ book entitled John Saxon’s Story: A Genius of Common Sense in Math Education. It's the biography of an original "math warrior" who took on the national and state math education leadership from 1981-1996, warned of the disaster we see today in math education, and inspired parents to revolt against the incoherent and weak math materials that were sponsored and introduced nationwide by NCTM in the early 1990's.

John Saxon insisted that "Results, not methodology, should be the basis of curriculum decisions. Results matter!" Is the processing of feelings about social issues the result we want in math classes or do we want real mathematical skills and knowledge that help determine a country's development? The answer, if based on logic and common sense, should be the latter and is cause for immediate action.

TAKE ACTION

To order the book, please go to Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Saxons-Story-geni ... 0578051222 or http://saxonmathwarrior.com


Donna Garner
Wgarner1@hot.rr.com

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Lynn-
You are telling me that the quote from Martin Luther King Jr., is not on the memorial? "Don't judge a person by the color of his skin but by the content of his character. I hope I quoted him accurately." Thank you.
Round Rock Ron

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Jim Crow was a democrat for cryin' out loud!

Clifford in Odessa.

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In the 800 hour, you talked about news out of New York, Chicago and Washington being done by "atheist and at best agnostics" . Then you proceeded to refer to "they"
Ok, who are they? A blanket statement is not valid. If you want to share info, then give it correctly-- name the names. Just talking about THEY makes it sound like gossip.

Later, just before 1100, you tore into Judge Sam Sparks. Did you ever hear of the Hopwood case? If Sam Sparks is so liberal and such a bad judge, why did he rule FOR the University?

Lynn, you make my brain work daily because I argue with you during your entire show. Today I just had to respond. Keep well. My aging brain needs your input (be it correct or factual or not).

Robbie

Sent from my iPad

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Information about André Carson
(The guy who thinks Tea Baggers want to hang him from the highest tree, (woman would you weep for me ) - Roger Miller from his Dang Me hit song)
Where do these leaders get their ideas from ? they must be guilty of what they accuse others of.

I remember this Andre fellow from 2008,he seemed an OK guy when he first came onto the public scene--But now he's trying to make murderers out of Tea Party members.
I haven't heard anyone who I know is from the tea party make such statements,That would be stupid !

I see he took the seat after his grandmother Congresswoman Julia Carson died. From reading about her, She seems to have been a good person with a more gentler nature then the grandson.

Elizabeth/Killeen


Indiana's 7th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Indiana. Based in the heart of the state, the district encompasses most of Marion County and Indianapolis.
The district is currently represented by Democrat André Carson who won a special election in 2008 to succeed his grandmother Julia Carson following her death in 2007.
The district is one of only two congressional districts to be represented by a Muslim in the United States (the other being Keith Ellison of Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, based in Minneapolis.