Jeff Danziger for August 31, 2021

As long as it is presented in a manner they can understand, I’m okay with it. There are too many (nominal) adults who keep saying, “They won’t understand this, it should be presented later”, without actually trying to figure out what they can understand. They have to learn sometime, and hitting them with it after they already “learned” from their buddies is too late.

Our school systems are designed around the idea that parents will teach morality and basic reasoning. They aren’t, so the schools are trying to take up the slack… with fewer contact hours than ever and, oh yeah: They’re spending HUGE amounts of time on worthless testing.

Not what happens. At least here.

We have designated classes for some of these. For the 1st, 2nd and 4th, we had a class that taught us about this. For #3, I generally learn from what people don’t do and common sense. Anger management is not something we learned about.

And guess what? None of this happened in my 8th grade Geometry class. As for the schedule in the right, we were online the whole year, so we had nothing of the sort.

Mr. Danziger sarcastically points out that this is what Faux news is telling its cult what to believe so they can be justly riled up for their new day and happily spread the lies. The truth is they probably don’t have enough time to teach geometry like they want.

“Don’t know much about geography. Don’t know much trigonometry. Don’t know much about algebra. Don’t know what a slide rule is for” (Sam Cooke)

Must be a College Level course. Pass, and you get to graduate. But, to pass, you have to take the “Pledge of Allegiance, to Trump”. Ready?

I’m happier than ever that I don’t have kids.

The shyte that is being taught in school is abysmal.

And we wonder why our educational system is falling behind where it is. We can’t teach them math, and history, and economics, and science because we have to teach them all the PC shyte.

It’s quite simple: treat everyone of every color, race, creed, nationality, sexuality, or favorite color with respect. Done. We don’t need to delve into every nook and cranny of every feeling.

The dumbing down of America continues.

I loved geometry but never used it and don’t remember much of it. The other issues are much more important IMHO.

Actually, in many states, that will get you fired, and school funding cut. They can’t handle the truth.

The last item on the “schedule sign” lists “somebody’s mother”.

I once thumbed thru my niece’s math book and found stories about Sacagawea. HUH?!

Where in the HECK is this, Jeff? Danzinger Fantasy World?

I miss the old days, when we were taught to be mindless slaves to the rich. Sigh.

Panda Proverb; ‘’Ignoring something, won’t make it go away’’

The cartoonist evidently doesn’t have any idea how schools really work. Talk to a teacher before you print garbage.

No time left for you…

Frankly, if they can master all that, they will be excellent contributing members of society. Just compare to the racist, sexist, inappropriate, insulting, angry members of the Republican Party and their Lord and Master #45.

Geometry is important, but it’s a lot harder to learn how to engage with other human beings. We can get through geometry a lot faster.

First things first.. important to establish the ground rules before moving on.

In grade eight biology class, back in 1962, we did a unit on the systems of the human body. The teacher (he was a good teacher, by the way) gave us an initial run-down of the systems we would discuss—the digestive system, the circulatory system, and so on, I don’t remember the whole list. After class I went up to him and said, “Excuse me, but I think you left out the reproductive system.” He looked at me, didn’t say a word, and just shrugged his shoulders. Clearly, in grade eight we weren’t supposed to learn about the reproductive system.

‘Uneducated people is how you make Republicans’: Gaetz slammed after calling for Education department to be abolished

https://www.rawstory.com/matt-gaetz-education/

Yep .. that’s what we Democrats are fighting for … math teachers teaching sex education and social justice!

That isn’t happening but even if it does happen – how often do you hear people complaining about school “All that time learning geometry, and I never used it in real life. School was a waste of time”… and those are the same people who complain about this, even though these other things 100% will be useful in “real life”.

Too much to unload on them in just one class. Address one topic a day and then spend some time on geometry

This is a false choice.

Y’all know that this is a sarcastic take on the RW hysteria about public school teaching being too PC? I mean, as if…

A ridiculous cartoon. Nobody discusses this in a geometry class, save it for social studies.

Recently started teaching at a local community college, with a mixed class of high school and college students – had to waste the first two class sessions going over all of the community college’s information and disclaimers about topics like the ones listed in the cartoon…

No joke, I actually saw an algebra book with only four pages of actual algebra.

Teaching US history without talking about race is malpractice.

Good one, Jeff. And I guess geometry would be the appropriate place for these discussions because there are “many sides”… /S

Frankly, in today’s world, all of the above are certainly of equal importance to, if not more important than geometry.

Um, I remember taking about 7 classes a day in high, both semesters. Not all of them were geometry. In fact, I only took geometry once.

Venn diagrams tend to come in handy when looking at the relationships of people who belong to the Trump cult and people who refuse to get vaccines, or wear masks, or wash their hands, or de-worm themselves when they don’t happen to have any horses handy……

It both amazes and saddens me that so many commenters on this cartoon don’t appear to understand the concepts of satire, parody, and reductio ad absurdum…..But there is no doubt at all that at least some of the kids being homeschooled are taught that people and dinosaurs were running around loose at the same time. They might as well be taught that the Loch Ness Monster faked the moon landing!

Wee arr oll dumed.

I’m surprised that “Schedule” in the upper right didn’t include a school shooting.

Beginning to study geometry in grade 10…those active shooter drills are putting students behind in their studies.

Republicans will ban abortion but don’t ask them to wear a mask or get a shot, they are total pigs.