Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

March 6, 2005

Today the Columbus Dispatch published a practice test for Ohio?’s High School Sophomores to take before they are allowed to graduate from High School. I was enlightened at the questions and the material covered in this test. What are we doing to our young people?


The READING section of this practice test covered three articles. And those were; the self esteem story about the turtle, Malcolm ?“X?” and the persecution by the government, then one about the forest and Yellowstone National Park. The multiple choose answers were just as revealing as the questions. The bias in this test jumps out at the reader no matter where you stand on these issues. I can?’t believe our State government is allowing a High School test to be used as a political tool that could have been written by the Democratic National Committee and their liberal coalitions.

The SOCIAL STUDIES questions were outrageous. Now here is a passage, ?“During the times of war or perceived dangers.?” Hello!!! What is perceived dangers? In other words don?’t ever trust what your government says.

Then there is the MATH section. Clearly in their seventh month of the tenth grade we are expecting them to know algebra, geometry and statistics. These are subjects that should be taught in the last two years of High School. I am disappointed that we have tried to push our children to a level higher in 10 years of school that should have been completed in 12 years of school.

Following closely behind the MATH section was the SCIENCE section. Much of the material in the science section should have been covered in the 11th and 12th grade levels. If we are expecting our children to have mastered these subjects and concepts mid way through the tenth grade then what do we expect of them in the last two years of High School? I think Chemistry, Biology and Botany are more advanced subjects that should be given to college bound seniors.

How does this relate to the ?“C?” student in preparing him or her for life? Can they balance their check book? Can they read and follow instructions in their job what ever that may be? Can these sophomores that pass this test balance a check book? Do they respect authority? As an adult I see everyday in my work place people following instructions and they are being trained to follow the direction from the supervision and they do quite well.

I think for the state to be forcing our students to study and spend their time on a liberal political agenda is a waste of the tax payers money.

The idea here is not to create a political base for the Democratic Party but to teach our children how to survive in the world they face. Reading passages from Malcolm X will not inspire or help that cause.

I have been wondering for years where all of the Viet Nam hippies went. I think I have found them and they are writing tests for our Ohio Kids to prevent them from graduating High School unless they adhere to the far left in this country. If this test is the learning expectations of our Ohio Kids in grades K-10 then we are all in trouble folks.



By Scab

Feel good BS

I also read the special section on this test. I was very upset that the test was more concerned about the Japanese and the Native Americans and showed very little regard for America and its native born white people.

It posed the question about not trusting the Japanese that were living here and the government portrayed them as ?“DISLOYAL.?”

WAR II was not about teaching hate for the USA. It was about defending this country against two invaders. It was about Americans that sank to the bottom of Pearl Harbor in their steel coffins and finally died after days underwater, despite the efforts of their ship mates to reach them in time. It was about men and women being burnt beyond recognition and not about Ben Affleck surviving multiple times to be a hero. It was about suicide pilots attacking our naval ships. It was about a President making the decision to drop a nuclear bomb on a country that refused to give up and they were willing to kill as many people as they could on earth for the sake of their power in this world.

We should all ask why our children don?’t know about President Washington. And why they don?’t know about President?’s Day in February. Do they know what Lincoln did in defending this nation and keeping it whole? Do they know the role our founding fathers had in forming this nation and their role in creating a democracy that allows this crap to go on in our schools.

Clearly we are teaching our children how to take tests and nothing more. If leading up to the tenth grade they must be exposed to this liberal bias then to pass it they must answer the questions expected, then our country is lost to the future of these children.

I hope I die before I see the results of this propaganda when it takes hold in our society. I have fought for this country and many of my friends did not survive war and they did not fight to see what I saw in that test this morning. This is not eighth grade level of education, it is the invasion of an Army which will defeat this country in years to come.

I was not amused by the cartoon of the Army tank that pointed to the social agenda of the liberal left and the questions it asked.

What made this country strong were its people. If we cripple our people with not challenging them, then we destroy the very fabric of this great nation. Being a white European is not necessarily a bad thing. To teach our children to hate and mistrust the White Americans is nothing more than hating ourselves. I think it is time to refocus where we ALL came from and think and teach the Great History of this country not some fantasy to make some one feel good.


By I fought for this?

My high school studies

I am almost 50 years old. When I was in high school we took Algebra in 9th grade, Biology and Geometry in 10th grade, then Algebra II and Chemistry in 11th grade, followed by Physics and an advanced math class in 12th grade.

That's not much different than what my childern took at PHS, so stop your whining about forcing the students to learn some subjects too early. Give your kids credit, they may surprise you.

You make Scab's point

TP

You say your children are not taking these advance math and science classes until the 11th and 12th grade. Yet you see no problem with the state testing your children on subject material they have not been exposed too.

If they are then passing these tests without the class room time how are these suburban schools getting high marks in passing if their 10th grade students don't know the material?

In regard to the Social Studies and Reading Comprehension and the bias within that area this is personally offensive to me that a government that I pay taxes to is promoting such a bias political test for our kids.

Remember this test will deny our children a High School Diploma if they fail one or more parts of this test. If after years of this kind of political indoctrination they will retain some of the material it will not just be retained for passing a test.