La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for April 25, 2010

Muy patético, ¿no?

dont forget pat roberson, glen beck, rush, and palin all have books on how we should aspier to be!

If you carry your books to class it counts as physical education..

Give every child a Laptop Computer & I think they’ll have a better chance at learning something. Better yet - give them a ride to the library & let them explore the world of books, And The Best Way to get them “Primed” - Read to them every night!

JEHOSAPHAT Its a miracle! I agree 100% with you. But then again its Sunday and no SOTU

Amen to that!

Thanks Lew - Miracles Do Happen!

Personally I wish the Internet would have been around when I was a kid. My parents bought a set of World Book Encyclopedia & I would spend hours reading them. Now I spend hours on the Net but I do enjoy “the feel” of reading the old fashioned way.

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) is the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit children’s literacy organization.

http://readingisfundamental.org/

BTW - I watched the 1966 film Fahrenheit 451 yesterday - for the first time (read the book back in the 60’s). I noticed with the opening scenes that actors, production crew, directors were spoken. Children in the schools weren’t allowed to read & spent days reciting math computations. The “newspaper” consisted of Comic Pictures without words.

Watching that movie inspired today’s comment.

Ah, more folly from the loony lefty. Just read a bit on how much most school textbooks have been “massaged” by leftists to remove so many important facts about our country from history books. Texas is just balancing out the errors.

^ The epistemic closure is strong in this one. ^

I also must agree with GJ on this one. When I speak to school kids today I am shocked at how little they are taught in the way of American History. And wouldn’t it be wonderful if textbooks simply told the truth without ANY political “spin”?

But But But A good breakfast and self esteem are more important than literacy, right? Like, man, I never used that calculus, so why should my kid be made to learn that boring multiplication, man.

Rapidly to the troglodyte age we the people do return.

That is a strange re-writing of history you have there, Clark. It has always been the Left that sees people as a collective, a group, as “sheeple” in your word. It was the Right that stood for individualism and each person’s freedoms (at least in Americal; L/R have different meanings in different countries.)

What sort of business, in your view, despises its customers? As for the “stranglehold on our food supply”, I suppose you’d prefer the stranglehold of collectivized farms? I’d be interested in hearing where you learned your typical Leftist hatred of business and the rich.

And regarding the whole issue of poor schools, ever notice that the worst are always government schools run by taxpayer money, with bloated bureaucracies and unions more interested in job security than teaching? Sell the public schools and issues like the Texas schoolbooks disappear. Freedom works, as much as the Left hates to hear it.

“Freedom Works” is a right wing Astroturf (fake grass-roots) organization funded by Koch Industries, and fronted by Dick Armey.

The organization ‘works’ in so far as what the Corporate masters want it to do, but it’s disingenuous and truth-challenged.

For the rest of us, freedom works all right, to the tune of 53%-46% in the last national election. We all will have our chance to vote in November, and again in 2012.

Jehosophat, will you read to the children whose parents are illiterate? Your solution sounds so simple and good intentioned, but one of the biggest parts of the problem is that too many of the parents can’t read and therefore can’t read to their children. What do you suggest they do? Who will “prime” their parents?