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06.16.08, 15:54 PM General Topics
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Public education in NYC in 2008 is inferior to that proposed by Thomas Jefferson in 1778. As per his words: , those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts, which history exhibiteth, that, possessed thereby of the experience of other ages and countries, they may be enabled to know ambition under all its shapes, and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes; At every of these schools shall be taught reading, writing, and common arithmetick, and the books which shall be used therein for instructing the children to read shall be such as will at the same time make them acquainted with Graecian, Roman, English, and American history...In these grammar schools shall be taught the Latin and Greek languages, English grammar, geography, and the higher part of numerical arithmetick, to wit, vulgar and decimal fractions, and the extraction of the square and cube roots. [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
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I could not be happier with the public education my dc is receiving in NYC. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 03:55 PM Flag
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Does your DC learn History and Geography?? Science, Social Issues?? In any organised way?? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 03:58 PM Flag
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Yes on all counts. You are grossly misinformed about what really IS taught in NYC's best public schools. Plus, I really don't think that an exact replica of an 18th century education really addresses the needs of people here in the 21st. Education was by rote back then and only for the elite. Real public education didn't come into being until well into the 19th century and even then it was often minimal. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:11 PM Flag
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Trinity was found as a coed school for poor children in the 1700s. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:13 PM Flag
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What's the history curriculum of your child's school? (np) [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:14 PM Flag
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I'm not the above poster, nor am I a DOE or internet freak - but I think you can find out any curriculum for any grade for nyc publics online somewhere. I realize that was not helpful, but it was meant to be. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:16 PM Flag
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My 6th grader has studied Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Chinese history, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome this year. My older dc has had two years of very detailed US history from pre-Columbian times to the present. They have both written several research papers this year, done projects and had comprehensive tests on these subjects. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:19 PM Flag
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6 Grade is in Middle School, not elementary school. This post is about elementary schools [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:24 PM Flag
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Where is that written? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:26 PM Flag
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It says "grammar" school [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:28 PM Flag
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call me crazy (or blind), but I don't see that in op [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:33 PM Flag
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yes. why do you ask? do you assume that nyc public schools don't teach any of the above? Or is your little qualifier "any organized way" something you are going to use to argue for the sake of agruing? Whats your deal? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:13 PM Flag
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OP: I have a DC in public school and I find the curriculum very narrow [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:25 PM Flag
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sorry to hear that. What school/grade? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:27 PM Flag
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That would be nice - Jefferson's vision that is. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:05 PM Flag
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There Republicans only quote Jefferson when it suits them [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:07 PM Flag
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A large part of why we left public school, unfortunately. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:09 PM Flag
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A large part why my 2nd DC is in private, after I was brave enough to enroll the first in public [ Reply | More
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General Topics 06.16.08, 04:10 PM Flag
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