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Re: Mandatory School Subjects?
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:28 PM on j-body.org
LOL...

I try to not get that floral on a regular basis.

The only thing that I could point out: Media has never relly been all that biased until the last 4-5 years. Liberal bias is a myth... CATO and Heritage foundation (and the RNC at large) have percieved anything non-conservative as biased towards liberalism since the Goldwater era. I'd point out the difference between "Fair" and objective reporting.. the difference is subtle but certain and glaring: Fair reporting gives everyone from every perspective air time, even if it's right off the charts wrong or misleading or fraudulent, Objective reporting reports the story, and little, if any, inference that is not substantiated.

I think that Brock's - The Republican Noise Machine should be required reading on this subject.... it breaks down both the RNC and DNC's usage of broacast media and press media over the last 60+ years. I'll just say that the masterfully misleading ways of the RNC are as bad as the DNC's non-use of the media. On one side you get a flurry of BS and from the other side you get nothing of substance.

Anyhow... getting SexEd 2x in your whole school career is just pitiful. Did you ever once hear about sex being good? I got the whole STD/unwanted pregancy thing, but I can't for the life of me remember any teacher talking about why you should have sex, and when to have sex... I think that's a good thing to know too, maybe it'll liberate the repressive and uptight (or worse, commodified) aura around sex in the US.. maybe it won't... I know that swedes have the lowest unwanted pregnancy and STD infection rates in the west, and they have a decent sex-ed programme that starts around gr. 4-5.




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Re: Mandatory School Subjects?
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 10:43 AM on j-body.org
Ummm I live in Alberta and they taught me sex ed in junior high. They even did it again for Biology 30. Although I'm not sure if Bio 30 is mandatory.

Also, money management and home economics in CALM 20 (Career and Life Management) don't they? That's mandatory for a diploma.

Of course, Ontario is a bit different than Alberta. It's only 3 years of high school in Alberta so it's possible for someone to enter College/University before they are allowed to drink!



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Re: Mandatory School Subjects?
Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:01 AM on j-body.org
Glace wrote:Ummm I live in Alberta and they taught me sex ed in junior high. They even did it again for Biology 30. Although I'm not sure if Bio 30 is mandatory.

Also, money management and home economics in CALM 20 (Career and Life Management) don't they? That's mandatory for a diploma.

Of course, Ontario is a bit different than Alberta. It's only 3 years of high school in Alberta so it's possible for someone to enter College/University before they are allowed to drink!


Yeah, we have Highschool technically from Grade 9 on to 12, although, when I went through, we had University/College preperatory credits (Ontario Academic Credits) that you could use to skip mandatory courses in University. They're gone now, but, anyhow, there was talk about turning HS from grades 9-12 to 7-13. I graduated HS (with 4 OAC credits) at 17, and basically bulled through 5 years of University in 4 (I took Summer sessions as well as an interning/Co-op credit).

That CALM course sounds like a great idea, I'm guessing the principles are similar to what is available here in a Home Economics class (basic cooking and sewing, diet, budgeting, etc) and Technical Mathematics classes (applied Math beyond the theoretical stuff in finite and calculus). We basically learned the ideas behind the stock market, bond market, commodities, money market funds and futures markets as well as a few other financial strategies... but it was NOTHING compared to what I needed to know about investing for the long term and quick dips.

I wouldn't have lost so damned much money on Nortel otherwise.

SexEd though, I think is a lot more applicable these days so it should be taught very early, and frankly (I'm not advocating watching pornographic videos, but there are some university level courses that use Adam & Eve instructional videos).




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