Tucker Carlson suspects school indoctrination plot because children are ‘just learning too much’

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/blog/2014/09/14/tucker-carlson-suspects-school-indoctrination-plot-because-children-are-just-learning-too-much/



Two Gohmert awards for this latest stupidity

Tucker Carlson suspects school indoctrination plot because children are ‘just learning too much’
David Edwards
14 Sep 2014

Fox News host Tucker Carlson asserted over the weekend that American teachers were assigning less homework because they were lazy union members and wanted to hide the curriculum from parents.

During the Sunday edition of Fox & Friends, Carlson noted that many schools had argued that students should spend time in the evenings with their families.

“But is this really about the kids or could it be a move by teachers unions to get teachers to do less work for, of course, the same pay?” he asked Whitney Neal, a former teacher with the Koch brothers-funded Bill of Rights Institute.

“That’s a great suspicion,” Neal agreed. “As much as we don’t want to look at teachers that way as wanting to eliminate the amount of work they have to do, I almost think this is more of a ploy to keep parents out of the classroom, to limit the involvement parents have on what’s going on with teachers. Because if kids aren’t bringing home homework, the parents don’t really know what’s going on.”

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. 'Hide the curriculum'?

Oh Good Gods. Ok, so make it a rule that the curriculum has to be posted online somewhere that parents can look it over.

I don't know about Tucker, but my parents didn't hover around while I was doing homework to find out 'what I was being taught'. I did it (as quickly as I could, usually) where I could find a spot with no one bothering me, and that was that. My parents knew what classes I was taking, and that was about it unless I specifically asked them for help with it.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Yeah, but you went to school before the era

in which knowledge of literature, science and all that dweeby stuff didn't mark you as a political undesirable.

Sputnik happened in 1957, the year before I started high school. It's amazing how much science stuff our little northwoods school got flooded with right after that.

And it's amazing how having all that stuff around, plus a culture that valued learning, encouraged so many of us to get into scientific & technical fields. Half a dozen of us from my old science club got together for a picture at my last class reunion a couple of years ago--& we're all still geeks of one sort or another.

[merrily]

2. Tucker Carlson always puts me in mind of an obnoxious third grader,

the one none of the other third graders liked, who has reached chronological adulthood, but not matured or become more likeable.

The third grader has an excuse, though.

[mountain grammy]

3. "This is a great suspicion" ugh, what morons!

[djean111]

4. Teh stoopid! It burns on so many levels!

Although the title is misleading - L'il Tucker just thinks the parents are not learning about what the teachers are really doing, and he believes the teachers are doing less work for equal pay.