Sticky Notes

    I've been thinking about this whole Meyer tasering event at the University of Florida. More details are coming out about his rant and that perhaps it was planned. And of course the school is investigating the security force's actions.

But I found myself thinking that this thankfully did not happen during a forum with a conservative or Republican speaker. I'd put $100 on the desk, that if that were the case the entire coverage would be about surpression of speech and not the actions that took place or Meyer's motives. 

    Last evening I heard on TV about Radical Math, now being taught by over 400 teachers in NYC. It's all about "educating" students about social injustices thru mathematics.

Look at a list of topics that serve as math lessons, and this is just the last few on the list:

# Sweatshops  # Taxes  # Teaching  # Unemployment  # Voting  # War in Iraq  # Wealth  # Welfare  # Women

In the City Journal: Late last month, over 400 high school math teachers and education professors gathered in Brooklyn for a three-day conference, titled “Creating Balance in an Unjust World: Math Education and Social Justice.”The conference’s organizers left nothing to the imagination about their leftist agenda. At many of the conference’s 28 workshops, math teachers proudly demonstrated how they used classroom projects to train students in seeing social problems from a radical anticapitalist perspective. (emphasis mine)

This is apparently approved by the education board. How can this happen? 

I  know this story is a day old, but it bears repeating.  NRO's got it, too.

Boils down to this pre-school bans LEGOS because they teach kids capitalism, ownership and all those evil things like 'what I built is bigger and cooler than what you built'.  So the teachers took the LEGOS away. And after some consideration, they let the kids have the toys back but only if they built Community buildings, each the same size and with no "ownership" of the buildings allowed.

 As the teachers state it:

"...the children were building their assumptions about ownership and the social power it conveys — assumptions that mirrored those of a class-based, capitalist society — a society that we teachers believe to be unjust and oppressive."

 Now these statements are also revealing:

"We agreed that we want to take part in shaping the children's understandings from a perspective of social justice."

"From our conversations, several themes emerged...  Collectivity is a good thing... Moderation and equal access to resources are things to strive for... All structures will be standard sizes.

Be afraid  - very afraid for our children if this is what they are being taught. 

Well I'll be dipped. Michelle has a post about my ol' Alma Mater - Ball State University in Municie, Indiana. David Horowitz, at BSU to talk about campus free speech and thought, was attacked by students  on the campus. OK - not good, but that happens; was surprised, though, that it was members of an SDS chapter. How far back does THAT go?

But worse, he was dissed by the Univeristy PRESIDENT!!! 

 And more from a blogger that was there!

Side note: Ball State University was founded by the Ball family as in Ball Canning Jars. Ah, there were a variety of clever names for the school with a name like that. heh