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I have been reading a very interesting book lately
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: December 04, 2011 01:29AM The title is "Radical Homemaking: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture"
[www.amazon.com] It is right up my alley and discusses issues like how education (of children and adults) does not teach people how to think, is irrelevant, and can be destructive, and how the society is full of people doing things they don't want to be doing in order to pay for all the STUFF they don't really need. Re: I have been reading a very interesting book lately
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: December 04, 2011 02:12AM *Edit: Not everything learned in school is "irrelevant," of course, but even in Special Education I found this to be true. I was a teacher assistant in a SPED class and most of the kids did not know how to tell time with a clock (only digital!), nor count money. They were in junior high; 8th grade to be exact. I told the head teacher that this was exactly what they needed to learn. She agreed but the usual reason they couldn't was cited: curriculum. So they were forced to be mainstreamed with regular students and most of them had no idea what was going on. Re: I have been reading a very interesting book lately
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Jgunn
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Date: December 04, 2011 02:40AM someone recently posted on facebook a link about some schools taking cursive handwriting out of the curriculum as its considered irrelevant .. the dumbing down of society is in full swing !
i will check out the book thanks it sounds interesting !  ...Jodi, the banana eating buddhist  Re: I have been reading a very interesting book lately
Posted by:
Tamukha
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Date: December 04, 2011 06:03PM Thanks for the recommendation, bananers! Turn on, tune out, and drop in! Re: I have been reading a very interesting book lately
Posted by:
rawalice
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Date: December 04, 2011 09:26PM I've read a book that sounds similar. the Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacysyn. It was like my bible while I chose to stay at home with my children when they were little. Yours sounds intersesting. Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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