New Sex Education Standards Released

Recommendations for states and school.

• By the end of second grade, students should be able to use proper names for body parts.
• By the end of the fifth grade, students should be able to describe male and female  reproductive system.
• By the end of the eight grade, students should be able to differentiate between gender identity, gender,  and sexual orientation.
• By the end of high school, students should be able to define sexual consent and its implications for sexual  decision-making.

Competition ~ Cooperation

I agree: two thumbs up.

They are the "You take care of you and I'll take care of me generation." There are multiple reasons for their lack of ethics. A large part of it is the competitiveness that Americans have embedded in their minds. Back about 30 years ago I witnessed cooperation being shunned. I can trust someone that is cooperating. I can not trust someone that is competing. The eastern countries are largely based upon groups that are bonded with cooperation. Their institutions have proven to be more productive than American institutions based upon aggressive competitiveness.

Stephen

This is so important that everyone should have this knowledge.

Hola Greg and others,


Will American become an empire like that of Hitler's Empire? America has become an empire. The next step has not happened yet. I thought a long time ago that I had enough knowledge to know when it was happening [ I did not.], but powerless to do anything to stop it. The knowledge is out there now to give anyone that is interested to at least become aware of unfolding events. That knowledge is in A history of Hitler's Empire by professor Thomas Childers. It's a set of lessons offered by Great Courses. http://www.thegreatcourses.com The cost is about $10 plus S/H. The cost is less than a 5th of brandy.

Stephen



Stephen

What is wrong with you people?

Not only are you giving your students apple juice containing arsenic poison, you are buying apple juice concentrate from China.  [I found out that most of the apple juice consumed in America is from concentrate bought from China.]

This tragedy cause me to remember Fritz who at the time I visited his gine lived in Benzonia, Michigan where he had an apple orchard.  Before moving to Benzonia, Fritz had been a gardener at the Dow Orchards in Midland Michigan. 

Fritz took me out to his orchards and showed me his apple trees.  The limbs were weighted down with apples that needed to be picked.  I told him that the apples needed to be picked and taken to market.  He told me that they had blemishes and were too small to be sold.  The apple trees were later cut down and the trees sold for firewood.  Fritz later died.

It takes 15 to 20 years to grow a productive apple tree.  How many farmers have given-up because of your irrational demand for perfect fruit? 

If you want fruit from trees like Fritz's, then you are going to have to wait for a long time.  Your kids will be out of school before that happens.

What follows is that an undiffentiated similar product is turned into a juice and packaged in a cartoon that appeals a maketing department's created fantasy.  What's wrong with you people?

More Students Go To School Hungry!

In the Tampa Bay area more students are now eligible for free lunches and the number of federal Title 1 schools has increased.  This is a function of parents not being able to afford to buy the food that is offered for sale and not having the necessary land to grow their own food; assuming that they would if they did have the land.

I remember what it was like to go to school hungry.  Was it my fault that I didn't have enough money to buy food from the school cafeteria?

Will this project feed the students?  Space Port

Low Achievement

Low achievement is epidemic in America.  I see it every where I look. The very act of watching TV is a low low achievement activity where I watch other engaged in low achievement behavior such as chasing, hitting or throwing a ball.  Then there are those that crash into each other or other self destructive behavior.

I watched a cop show tonight and realized that the cops were obstucting low achievers. What did the cops achieve?  It wasn't a product that could be sold, exchanged or used for some purpose.  They did, however, obstruct behavior that needed to be obstructed.

I personal get satisfaction from achieving.  Writing this is an achievement that hopefully someone will read.
I also get pleasure from repairing my home.  There was a time when I could do whatever I wished to improve my home.  That has ended.  Now I need to buy a permit if I am allowed to buy it.

I needed to fix my roof.  One of the obstructions to that achievement is the law that forbids me from fixing my own roof.  Since, I am a high achiever, I will repair my roof on the weekend when the Code Enforcement Officer is off duty.

It isn't easy to achieve an objective. Sometimes, it isn't worth the effort.

Do you obstruct achievement?  Are you one of those people that get paid to obstruct achievement?

Indifference is Epidemic in America!

I first became aware of indifference when I was a student at Delta College.  It didn't seem important at the time.  Since then, it has spread like a disease.

Do you ever say, "It doen't make a dif to me."  I got this message this morning: "Dude! Believe me, or don't believe me. It makes no difference to me."  The person that sent that message to me works at the Pentagon.  The other was told to me in a face to face encounter.  Dawn is a Clearwater High School math teacher.

What do you say?

Disruptive Behavior Disorder, DBD

It is best for the teacher to quickly identify the student with Disruptive Behavior Disorder. Document their behavior and have them removed from your class as quickly as possible.  It is not just the youth that can be disruptive.  Before going on to adult, I'll mention a few ways that students can be disruptive.

1. Coming to class late.
2. Conspiring with peers to do something disruptive.
3. Asking questions with the intent of confusing the teacher.
4. Discrediting the teacher, just to name a few.

My uncle Jim who was a Chemistry teacher would ask a question and then ask that the answer to the question be explained.  Nested questions create confusion a situation where the answer eventually cannot be understood and the speaker not know what they are talking about.

I had another family member that would constantly ask, "What is the difference."  And, yet another one that would ask, "Cause, why?"

Danny, an adult at the Dog Park prides himself in being able to create a situation where the other person does not know what they are talking about.

I have heard that it takes all kinds to make a world.  However, you cannot be an effective teacher if the person with a Disruptive Behavior Disorder is allowed to act-out in your class. If you cannot stop them.  Then have them removed.

I am not the only writer that thinks that ....

Many science readers think that most humans will not read what they write.  Futhermore, I doubt if many are reading what I publish on this Blog either.

Ron Cowen, Yale University Press wrote, " But it's unclear whether a universal understanding of cosmic origins can ever take hold, since those who disagree may never pick up the book in the first place."  [The New Universe and the Human Future by Nancy Ellen Abrams and Joel R. Primack]

It is much worse than that.