Posted by Steve Scott on December 7, 2005, 12:13 pm
You're exactly right on this point, Chris. It's a real shame what 40
years of ever more liberal educators have done to the US educational
system.
On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 16:32:41 -0000, clewis@nortelnetworks.com (Chris
Lewis) wrote:
>What you're actually seeing is a sense of disgust at how
>appallingly bad the US educational system is.
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Posted by Chris Lewis on December 7, 2005, 12:55 pm
> You're exactly right on this point, Chris. It's a real shame what 40
> years of ever more liberal educators have done to the US educational
> system.
Oh come now, Steve, our liberal educators can out-liberal your
liberal educators any day of the week[+], and have been doing it
far longer. Yet, our kids do considerably better.
It's way too easy to blame it on the "liberal boogyman", when the
real problem is governmental and societal neglect.
Even Heinlein fell into that trap.
[+] By US standards, we don't have _any_ non-liberal educators.
Heck, the current ruling party[*] isn't even afraid to call themselves
"Liberals". How liberal can you get? ;-)
[*] Past 11 years. Election next month. Perhaps the conservative
party will take over. Tho, by US standards, they're liberal.
Hell, by US standards, our fascist party is liberal too. Americans
don't realize how far right their government is compared to the
rest of the world. Most of the rest of the world considers the
Democrats and Republicans so far to the right to be indistinguishable
from Genghis Khan.
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Posted by clifto on December 7, 2005, 2:53 pm
Chris Lewis wrote:
> Your sentence construction only makes logical sense if you _meant_
> "doesn't know a damn thing". Which is wrong actually. The rest
> of the world does know quite a bit about Canada, tho, liberally
> sprinkled with the usual stereotypes (singing mounties and the
> rest).
One halloween when I was a kid, I went as Sgt. Preston.
> What you're actually seeing is a sense of disgust at how
> appallingly bad the US educational system is. The worst
> in the 1st world. Which is particularly annoying since
> we've always been your largest trading partner - eg:
> your largest supplier of petro fuels for most of the past
> few years.
At this moment I'm safe to say that Canada's chief export is cold air.
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