Monday, September 03, 2007
MAKE MINE MANDARIN
Piture one is surfers selling out to chinese now everyone will be a goofy footer
Picture two is pyramid building which may get out of control on elementary school playgrounds.
Remember right to left
The Cape Henlopen School District, though federal Grant money, will now begin to teach Chinese in the elementary schools. That’s fine but the only way to learn a language is to be dropped inside a culture that only speaks that language with no access to hometown homies. The classroom bullshit is good for counting and days of the week but if you want to learn Spanish get a laborer’s job with a landscape company.
A sent home letter to down home parents selling Chinese as “a great idea” claimed that studies proved learning Chinese improved students math scores. I hit the floor on that one but it had just been waxed and I was wearing black socks. I guess if I learn to bark I will also enhance my sense of smell?
I know that those abacus Chinese Checkers inventors are better at math than English speaking Americans and learning their language is such a backwards challenge with those precisely drawn characters that anyone who could do it would be good at math in the first place.
I want to meet one dumb assed Chinese person because they all can’t be brilliant SAT takers getting perfect scores. I do know that any exchange student or student on summer Visa I’ve ever meet has been flabbergasted at the percentage of clueless Americans who give a really good first and lasting impression of being all the time real stupid.
I love this country because most people speak English poorly, overeat at all hours of the day, can’t find West Virginia on a wall map, can’t name the representatives from their own state and will quickly vote yes to go out a smart bomb any country talking smack at our expense.
It must actually work because look at us then look at them.
How many military Jet flyovers will kick off NFL games this season? Flying over drunks attending games where admission is changed by a private corporation. Do we Americans know the why and how behind all that? We don’t care.
Let’s play football and talk much noise and prove we can spell EAGLES!
freddogg
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Freddog,
Glad to hear you think teaching kids Chinese is a waste of money. What ever happened to teaching them English so they can actually speak and write it correctly?
A couple of years ago I heard a presentation from missionaries that essentially said the Chinese are going to take over the world so we better learn how to communicate with them. When most of the questions from the church group they were addressing challenged their premise (China takes over the world)they looked at us like we were all stupid, and without hope in a changing world. Perhaps the missionaries got to the Cape administration.
My question is why are we (Americans) so intent on learning third world languages? Isn't it in their best interest to learn the language of the nations on whom they depend for their development? If we were learning their language to exploit them it might make some sense, but in today's politically correct world of education that can't be the reason.
Does ANYONE care if Cape Henlopen kids gain a beginning understanding of Chinese? Since much of our national defense in the Pacific theater is based on protecting ourselves against the Chinese, I guess learning their language makes sense - kind of like how helpful it was for our kids to learn Japanese and German prior to World War II. There must be days when even you are embarrassed to admit involvement in public education.
Give me a break,
The Messenger
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Glad to hear you think teaching kids Chinese is a waste of money. What ever happened to teaching them English so they can actually speak and write it correctly?
A couple of years ago I heard a presentation from missionaries that essentially said the Chinese are going to take over the world so we better learn how to communicate with them. When most of the questions from the church group they were addressing challenged their premise (China takes over the world)they looked at us like we were all stupid, and without hope in a changing world. Perhaps the missionaries got to the Cape administration.
My question is why are we (Americans) so intent on learning third world languages? Isn't it in their best interest to learn the language of the nations on whom they depend for their development? If we were learning their language to exploit them it might make some sense, but in today's politically correct world of education that can't be the reason.
Does ANYONE care if Cape Henlopen kids gain a beginning understanding of Chinese? Since much of our national defense in the Pacific theater is based on protecting ourselves against the Chinese, I guess learning their language makes sense - kind of like how helpful it was for our kids to learn Japanese and German prior to World War II. There must be days when even you are embarrassed to admit involvement in public education.
Give me a break,
The Messenger
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