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John Vezmar's avatar

Never forget that ignorance is bliss, and the Marxist Democrat controlled Department of Education (ha, ha) wants to keep it that way. Enter President Donald Trump and, gadzooks, the goal to reach the lowest common denominator is being replaced by meritocracy.

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John Sullivan's avatar

It is not miseducation. It is maleducation.

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Jer's avatar

Even the young women teachers are GROOMERS these days...plus outside of Seattle proper! They will be held to account for waht they have done!

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Willyjp's avatar

Sadly deficient education for sure Diane! But, having been educated in public schools of the PacNW back when they were good (the 1950s!) and having a Portland perspective on Seattle, I can tell you that the "Inland Empire" (Columbia River drainage) of Washington has always been at least somewhat more focused on Portland (it's natural river port and market point) than it has on Seattle. That has probably been true up until the time when the government in Olympia started invading the daily life of everyone in Washington state. And that part of the state has been, I think, historically equally ignored by those in Metro Seattle.

Time was when virtually ALL of E. Washington's major export products (wheat, fruit) shipped through Portland and I'm pretty sure that the majority, at least of wheat, still does. And of course that all has to do with the water highway of the "mighty Columbia." To a lot of children of Seattle, Eastern Washington has been like another state in the mindset they grew up with. Eastern Washington and Oregon have a lot in common and really probably should be another state!

My late uncle, a physician, grew up in Albany, Oregon in the early 1900s. He used to talk about how much of his elementary education was focused on the history and geography of Oregon. Among other things now unimaginable, students were required to be able to recite the names, county seats and major products of all 36 Oregon counties. Can you conceive in your wildest fantasy a modern school even teaching that to elementary students, let alone requiring them to be able to recite it!!

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Diane L. Gruber's avatar

Willy: Where do you live? Would you like to send me a tale for my "LIving Behind Enemy Lines" series. Please send it to my email address: DianeLGruber@Gmail.com

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Diane L. Gruber's avatar

I was born and raised in the Wenatchee Valley and went to college in North Dakota. At that time, the early 1970s, ND had the highest literacy rate in the nation. Many, many of my classmates had gone to class in one or two room school houses on the prairie, where older kids helped younger kids. For high school, they were bussed to a city. I have spent most of my adult life in the Portland Area, watching the Dems ruin it.

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Alexander Scipio's avatar

In 1971, a high school (Pasadena) friend was a Japanese girl - nisei. We were chatting about the annual (informal, pickup) “Pearl Harbor” flag football game in a few days. She thought Pearl Harbor was in Long Beach …

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Diane L. Gruber's avatar

Say what?

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Stella’s pop's avatar

OMG! TJ is in my school district! You knew that didn’t you? I need to share more with you from in the trenches. I agreed to this before. I will relight the fire. I have so many stories from my 3 1/2 years on the school board. (Incidentally, I graduated from TJ in the early 70s)

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Diane L. Gruber's avatar

I would LOVE to have your tales for my "LIving Behind Enemy Lines" series. Please send it to my email address: DianeLGruber@Gmail.com

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