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Jun. 30th, 2012 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* A plank of the Republican Party platform is: "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority." This means outlawing science. After all forming a hypothesis, constructing an experiment, gathering data, examining evidence and judging if it supports the hypothesis or null hypothesis is pretty much all higher order thinking. That's right, they want to outlaw science in public schools. They are arguing that the rest of the curriculum should be reduced to rote memorization as any sort of analyzing of evidence is anathema. This pretty much puts an end to the good parts of social studies: the debates and discussions, the looking at evidence, the story part of history, the preparing students to become involved and informed citizens. It beats all the fun and joy ut of learning and is a good way to create a dystopia of uninformed intellectually stunted drones to follow the orders of their masters who went to private schools that excel at teaching people how to think. It's heartbreaking and scary all at once.
They want to take the learning out of education for everyone who isn't rich.
* The Renaissance is just a label: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/26251014379/the-new-crash-couse-is-here-learn-about-the
* On Conservative threats to move to Canada to escape socialized medicine: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/06/canadians-dont-want-you-conservafools.html
* "6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying:" http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-things-rich-people-need-to-stop-saying/#ixzz1zJqgU5lU
* The Plumber came today. He not only fixed the toggle so one doesn't have to sit there holding it down to get it to drain, but he snaked our drain and got us a new spout so showers are less wasteful. The cats really did not like getting locked up, but it was so worth it.
* Moment of Zen: Bert, Doing the Pidgeon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPj3G7U-K04
* Snerk: http://cdn.thedevilspanties.com/comics/20120630.gif
They want to take the learning out of education for everyone who isn't rich.
* The Renaissance is just a label: http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/26251014379/the-new-crash-couse-is-here-learn-about-the
* On Conservative threats to move to Canada to escape socialized medicine: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/06/canadians-dont-want-you-conservafools.html
* "6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying:" http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-things-rich-people-need-to-stop-saying/#ixzz1zJqgU5lU
* The Plumber came today. He not only fixed the toggle so one doesn't have to sit there holding it down to get it to drain, but he snaked our drain and got us a new spout so showers are less wasteful. The cats really did not like getting locked up, but it was so worth it.
* Moment of Zen: Bert, Doing the Pidgeon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPj3G7U-K04
* Snerk: http://cdn.thedevilspanties.com/comics/20120630.gif
