Luckily I had a based teacher in middle school that taught about the horrors of communism.
One day she printed out a ton of coloring book pictures of a "Car" and we were hired by the Soviet Union as "painters" to color the car in between the lines. When you painted a car you got a Tootsie Roll as your pay.
At first most people were really detailed with coloring in the car but we noticed the people not doing any work (ie just swiping a crayon across the car picture) always got a tootsie roll just like us.
By the end of that exercise, all of us were just swiping crayons across the car picture and "painting" as little as possible because we knew we'd get a Tootsie Roll anyway.
Vermont had basic competencies when I graduated. We had to be able to write a check, read a map, and a bunch of other skills. We were checked off in home room. So many didn’t go to college so I thought they were a good idea.
My calculus teacher made us learn to write computer programs in Basic on the school’s computer. I ended up with basically a computer engineering degree (electrical engineering with a computer emphasis - before Computer Engineering was accredited) because of her. She told us we needed to learn to program because computers were going to be the future. This was in the late 70s.
I remember I had a high school English and writing teacher that was really smart and she taught me a lot of things about English and writing that I've never forgotten. It was during her class that I also read Brave New World for the first time. She literally said during class once that the people in the book became so brainwashed that they believed "2+2=5, 2+2=5..." she kept repeating it because that's how they tricked the characters to believe in it, and this is LITERALLY what's happening TODAY. She was SO ahead of her time and I still respect her to this day, she was a phenomenal teacher.
We read all those based books in late junior high and high school. Animal Farm, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World. I don’t really know if kids are reading those in school today across the board.
I believe they've banned Animal Farm and To Kill a Mockingbird. Not sure about the others but I wouldn't be surprised if they're not reading them. Instead they're reading White Fragility and How to be an Ally or other nonsense.
Luckily I had a based teacher in middle school that taught about the horrors of communism.
One day she printed out a ton of coloring book pictures of a "Car" and we were hired by the Soviet Union as "painters" to color the car in between the lines. When you painted a car you got a Tootsie Roll as your pay.
At first most people were really detailed with coloring in the car but we noticed the people not doing any work (ie just swiping a crayon across the car picture) always got a tootsie roll just like us.
By the end of that exercise, all of us were just swiping crayons across the car picture and "painting" as little as possible because we knew we'd get a Tootsie Roll anyway.
Vermont had basic competencies when I graduated. We had to be able to write a check, read a map, and a bunch of other skills. We were checked off in home room. So many didn’t go to college so I thought they were a good idea.
My calculus teacher made us learn to write computer programs in Basic on the school’s computer. I ended up with basically a computer engineering degree (electrical engineering with a computer emphasis - before Computer Engineering was accredited) because of her. She told us we needed to learn to program because computers were going to be the future. This was in the late 70s.
I remember I had a high school English and writing teacher that was really smart and she taught me a lot of things about English and writing that I've never forgotten. It was during her class that I also read Brave New World for the first time. She literally said during class once that the people in the book became so brainwashed that they believed "2+2=5, 2+2=5..." she kept repeating it because that's how they tricked the characters to believe in it, and this is LITERALLY what's happening TODAY. She was SO ahead of her time and I still respect her to this day, she was a phenomenal teacher.
We read all those based books in late junior high and high school. Animal Farm, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World. I don’t really know if kids are reading those in school today across the board.
I believe they've banned Animal Farm and To Kill a Mockingbird. Not sure about the others but I wouldn't be surprised if they're not reading them. Instead they're reading White Fragility and How to be an Ally or other nonsense.