[Vision2020] IB Program Axed in CdA School District

[Art Deco]

Modern education topics such as critical thinking and looking at current
social, political, and especially environmental issues are the same red
meat to the Tea Party and Evangelicals as a communist in every closet was
to the late Senator Joseph McCarthy and likely to to produce the same kind
of horrors.  Ignorance breeds fear and intolerance.

w.

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

>  On 8/7/2012 1:22 PM, Sue Hovey wrote:
>
>  This reads as a traditional Idaho post-boomer education mismanagement
> and deconstruction article. The political perspectives of frightened feral
> rural rodents digging deeper their noxious nests to avoid actual cultural
> contacts with wiser sapient societies boggles belief, but bears notice,
> nay, demands deterrence.
>
>
>   And from the above article of alliterative argument may one assume you
> intend to be a part of the statewide clamor from those who demand
> deterrence?
>
>  In reference to the video,  obviously they aren't graduates of Idaho
> institutions, so I read your final  comment as a disparagement of Idaho
> students, and they do get plenty of that in spite of their successes in a
> state where policymakers do their damnedest to shortchange them.  An
> example: I had lunch the other day with a former student who could have
> been completely at ease in that polyglot conversation. He was on his way to
> a position in a Francophone institution in Montreal,where he will be
> teaching European history...in French, of course, but he could do it in
> German or even English if need be.
>
>  And now I'll join you in that demand.  Frightened rodents take a lot of
> persuading.
>
>
> Yes, I am in favor of better public education policies, resources, and
> management to achieve more desirable outcomes, especially for secondary and
> adult basic education students. When power is devolved upon individuals
> more adept at dismantling than at reconstructing the situation becomes at
> least as political as educational.
>
> I neither had nor have any intention to disparage any Idaho student, but
> merely to note that it is not possible to learn all of those languages at
> Idaho schools. English, Spanish, French, and German usually are available
> at the universities; Italian, Swedish, Norwegian have not been available
> for some time, if ever. Idaho public school students may not be disparaged
> about not learning what is not offered to them, especially foreign
> languages not offered in primary schools, when an individual is more likely
> to better learn the native pronunciation, and thus develop fluency.
>
> (Assuming, of course, instructors able to, and with materials to, teach
> appropriate phonetic basics at age level.)
>
> Of the multiple reasons a person might want to learn another language, one
> that is applicable to almost all second language learners is that second
> language study broadens and deepens understanding of the first language.
> The comparative and contrastive benefits of second language study are an
> integral part of the process, and a benefit to all language students
> whether or not they use the second language with significant frequency.
> This seems a reasonable justification for requiring foreign language study
> for secondary school graduation, and as a component of adult basic
> education.
>
>
> Ken
>
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