Frazz by Jef Mallett for November 07, 2012

Awfully decent of Burke to give the kid half credit. But I still think that the American education system is becoming more of a joke.

Particularly by teaching religion in schools and banning science.

Well done, Pastis. The kid used all of the words in his sentence. Euphemism-Spraying paint- Graffiti, Appliance/Authority- Jimmy was the tool used to rebel against society, decent- he justified hs answer as being passable,

Wei Shen – The problem with Education is that public education is now required to teach to the lowest common denominator. Religious schools don’t have to abide by the public education rules. As a result, their students consistly score higher on college entrance exams. Science, too.

Oh geeze, that one’s in the terlet…

Words I learned this week: mesopic etiolation inspissate georgic revenantThere is virturally no chance I will ever be able to use any of them in a sentence.

The pain in sprain is mainly in the brain….Not true, but I’m proud of myself anyway…and of the dang ol’ country. We saw through the BS and did the right thing, instead of the right wing…Kudos…

Have you read the textbooks lately?

@zoidknight Half the things you’re complaining about are the result of No Child Left Behind, and the other half don’t exist. How is that the fault of liberals?

Which schools do the liberals send their children to?

As someone I knew used to say, “Tree poiple boids sittin’ onna coibstone, twoipin’ an’ choipin’ an’ eatin’ doity oitwoims.”

I was lived in Bronx and I never talked like that. But then the educational system back then was better than it is now.

Texan at Heart: No, private schools look better because they can kick out any kid who does not conform. Their product makes more money because they started out rich. And you are not the Texan of the Sam Houston, Sam Rayburn, Lyndon Johnson (all school teachers) mold. .I voted Green; where there were no Greens running, Democratic; where neither, Republican. Ironically, the lone Rep was my opponent for State Board of Education in 2010. I filed against the leader of the flat-earth wing, but he was bumped off in the primary. The Democrats don’t care enough about education to run for the textbook-censors of the nation. I still disagree with him on several points, but an honorable Republican is better than an anarchist who wants to destroy public education entirely and go back to the Middle Ages where only the rich and the church were literate.

Ms. Parker, can you use the word “horticulture” in a sentence?.Sure. You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think!

“Gee, lookit da boids!”“Those are birds, Johnny, not ‘boids’.”“Gee, dey look just like boids ta me.”

So…any physics, chemistry, cellular biology, anatomy, zoology, ecology, etc. that are taught in schools are meaningless because those schools fail to teach evolution? Not buying it. There is plenty of meaningful science (even in biology) regardless of that significant omission.

… think the Jesuits might disagree!

zoid-night, haven’t been in a school lately, huh?

exoticdoc2: Lead by Fox and followed by the rest of the corporate media, the Ebonics issue was a total lie. It was not “sloppy English” but a ghetto dialect, and the attempt to train teachers in it was not so they would teach it, but rather so they could understand their pupils.

On a vocab quiz, for “abyss” one of my students wrote, “Life’s abyss and then you die.” Still regret not giving him partial credit.

I am not a creationist. I am merely pointing out that there is a lot more to science than just evolution. Sure, it’s a big gap in what kids learn in those districts. It’s just not the only science there is to learn. I would be more worried if we wasted our time on creation and/or evolution to the detriment of other sciences. Instead, evolution (and creation) get mostly skipped.

How hard is this to understand? Creationism is religion-based; evolution is science-based. You want to teach Creationism? Fine; just don’t call it science. Anyway, if you prefer creationism, whose creation myth do we use? Genesis is just one among many.