Oh, criminey. Just what American high school students need: [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link.

It was 6:30 p.m. The lights were still on at Needham High School, here in the affluent Boston suburbs. Paul Richards, the principal, was meeting with the Stress Reduction Committee.
On the agenda: finding the right time to bring in experts to train students in relaxation techniques.
Don’t try to have them teach relaxation in study hall, said Olivia Boyd, a senior. Students, she explained, won’t want to interrupt their work. They were already too busy before or after school for the training.
No one is busier than Josh Goldman. Captain of varsity tennis, president of the Spanish club and a member of the student council and the Stress Reduction Committee, Josh was not able to squeeze in the meeting at all.
Mr. Richards noted his absence wryly. “Josh is a perfect example,” he said. “He’s got a hundred things going on.”
Here is the high-powered culture that Mr. Richards is trying to change, even if only a little.

Turns out Mr. Richards is the same principal who [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. to [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link.
Now, Richards is leading an entire cult of educrats more obsessed with reducing “stress” and coddling fragile minds and bodies than with challenging students to push themselves to the limit and demanding nothing less than their best:

Mr. Richards is just one principal in the vanguard of a movement to push back against an ethos of super-achievement at affluent suburban high schools amid the extreme competition over college admissions. He has joined like-minded administrators from 44 other high schools and middle schools — most in the San Francisco Bay Area but others scattered from Texas to New York — to form a group known as S.O.S., for Stressed Out Students.
The group was formed four years ago by Denise Pope, a lecturer at the Stanford University School of Education and author of the book, “Doing School: How We Are Creating a Generation of Stressed Out, Materialistic and Miseducated Students” (Yale University Press, 2001).
High schools in other Boston suburbs — Wellesley, Lexington, Wayland — have taken steps similar to Needham’s, organizing stress committees and yoga classes. Some high schools are requiring students to get parental permission before enrolling in Advanced Placement classes. Others are experimenting with later start times so students can get more sleep.

Welcome to 21st century public education in the US, where one in 10 schools are [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. :”
No more honor rolls to reward the high achievers.
[LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. .
Forced bilingual ed for students [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. .
Pledges of [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. .
The penetration of [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. .
And just this summer, the [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. in the wake of bottom-of-the-barrel test results.
Self-esteem rises, academic rigor plunges.
American kids’ brains are getting emptier every year.
But they’ll have the most limber muscles in the world. Hooray.






[LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link.






These Educrats must be stopped before they ruin a country.






j-mac

__________________
"IT HAS been seen that the dangers incident to a representative democracy are of two kinds: danger of a low grade of intelligence in the representative body, and in the popular opinion which controls it; and danger of class legislation on the part of the numerical majority, these being all composed of the same class."

John Stuart Mill

The next generation will have great hand eye coordination due to playing video games until 4am, therefore we cant expect too much in performance in school.

But the indoctrination centers will have them well versed in socialism disguised as progressive movement while practicing the cult of environmentalism.

__________________
Neoconservatism is the political philosophy that emerged in rejection of liberalism and the New Left counter-culture of the 1960s.

As a term, neoconservative first was used derisively by democrat socialist Michael Harrington to identify a group of people (who called themselves liberal) as newly conservative ex-liberals. The term stuck, because it is accurate and because neoconservatives accepted that they are conservative.

I'm proud to anounce that the Democrat lead city of Indianapolis has 5 of those "drop out factories" high schools.

The DIMS moto should be:

Keep'em Dumb, Keep'em Poor.

Utah, which has low poverty rates and fewer minorities than most states, is the only state without a dropout factory. Florida and South Carolina have the highest percentages. About half of high schools in those states classify as dropout factories.

"Part of the problem we've had here is we live in a state that culturally and traditionally has not valued a high school education," said Jim Foster, a spokesman for South Carolina's Department of Education. He noted that South Carolina residents once could get good jobs in textile mills without a high school degree, but that those jobs are now much harder to come by.

[LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link.

Seems to me ,the more liberal the area the higher the drop out rate.The school taxes are higher, with lower expectations. How strange.

__________________
Neoconservatism is the political philosophy that emerged in rejection of liberalism and the New Left counter-culture of the 1960s.

As a term, neoconservative first was used derisively by democrat socialist Michael Harrington to identify a group of people (who called themselves liberal) as newly conservative ex-liberals. The term stuck, because it is accurate and because neoconservatives accepted that they are conservative.

I just wonder what the effects of our society have on kids today? There is alot of weaird music and movies. Along with drug uses, and news and politics........
Back in the 50's, I guess kids were "Normal". But I don't think they had near as much "crap" on their minds. I mean basically it was school, after school jobs, and their boy or girlfriends.

Our society can be very stressfull. Even us here in this forum need to take a break from politics every once in a while.

Is that you??!! Havnt seen you on any other Forums this site!! ha ha

Right from the top of the Repuke Governor Mitch Daniels...

Is the Federal government getting involved in the education system. i know this yoga crap is something the local level has done. But, there are alot of bad effect that the federal government has on the local school districts. As in No Child left Behind.

I have to bite my lip every time I see this school/teacher bashing.
Has everyone forgotten about the SCHOOL BOARDS?
Who elects the school boards?
Who has the authority to direct what the schools are going to teach?
Who can be held accountable at the ballot box?
And finally, if you really, really dont like the way the schools are being run, put your money where your mouth is and ...........
RUN FOR YOUR LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD