"CRT" or worse?

[snow1]

So I was blind sided by this,looking for some input from you fellers.

Talking to a friend last night ,started out with lies about recent fishing trips,then I asked about my friends son who is 9 or 10 yrs old (4th grade) in white bear lake public elementary school,young man is a avid hockey player like his dad,plays like an adult,young man loves to fish,our conversation drifted to what's being taught in our WBL school and whether dad is involved withthe learning critia.

To my surprise,this 4th grade class is teaching "chinese" language... at such a young age one would think english should be #1 at this stage...or am I off base thinking this way.

My knee jerk reaction would be pull my boy from this school.

Further this school pulled the pledge of allegiance every morning before classes...

Your thoughts.

[Jerkbiat]

I don't see anything wrong with learning another language. That way when China tries to take us over he can tell them to fly a kite. I wish I would have learned other languages. As for the pledge that is a bunch of  !!!

[Steve-o]

Frankly, I thought most schools removed the pledge of allegiance long, long ago. 

Need more information about teaching English at WBL.  As I recall in elementary school in St. Paul, the early grades were learning to read, write, spell, and then in 3rd and 4th grades, the different parts of speech:  nouns, verbs, pronouns.  (Good King Walz and his ilk has made it necessary to spend a whole semester on pronouns in this day and age.)  And, for me at least, it wasn't until 5th and 6th grade when English got sucky and we needed to learn how to diagram sentences and write coherent, well-formed compositions.  So a 4th grader today might not have a lot of "English" classes per se.

As for teaching languages...  Generally I think it is a good thing.  Young brains have a huge capacity to learn language when they are forming that diminishes over time.  I think our education should take advantage of that.

I also thing it was a HUGE mistake to drop cursive writing from the curriculum - because studies have shown that learning this skill strengthens many connections in the brain.  But because the skill can be hard to learn, not everyone can excel or perform at the same level, and because the benefits are intangible and skills obsolete - out it goes.

Back to Chinese.  One benefit I can see is that - on the outside - it would seem really hard to learn.  But if the kids can learn it, it would probably build self esteem - that they can do something that not a lot of other people can. 

Why Chinese?  It may be as simple as they had someone on the faculty that could speak it and they pitched the course to the Adminstrator.  Or maybe they hired someone special.  Who knows. 

But yes, in one sense I do wonder how this all fits into the "mystery" of how they plant Critical Race Theory into the minds of the youth.  In language class, they usually include cultural units to augment the learning.

I wonder if they spend time talking about how the Chinese were used as slave labor to build the rail roads over a hundred years ago.

OR if they talk about all the human rights violations and environmental devastation in China TODAY!  Or that China is by far the single biggest offender in polluting the planet, and by comparison, nothing the US does to reduce emissions will amount to a hill of beans to stem climate change as long as the Chinese socialist government doesn't give a $#!T about its people or the planet. 

Rant over.

[dutchboy]

Had I paid more attention in Spanish class in the 60's & early 70"s I could have been a translator on the Southern Border today.

[snow1]

I learned spanish late in life,"cancun I think?   example "Poor some more" all I need on vacation south of the border or in texas/AZ. these days.

[LPS]

English class came easy to me.  I never did do a foreign language.  I have heard that Chinese is one of the hardest to learn.  I used to write very nice and smooth.  Now I hack out the numbers as I write out checks.  We don't get much practice writing anymore due to keyboards. 

[Leech~~]

I don't have an issue with kids learning a foreign language.  They may get a job interrogating prisoners someday!   

I think I've said this before but for the last few years before I retire next May. I took a job as a custodian in the Mpls school district.  Learning how to speak Chine's is way down on the list of the CRT and other crap they are teaching them.  I work in an elementary school K-5. 

Does anyone else think this Shat should be hanging in a K-5 grade school before they can even read and write?    Where da white folks on the second poster?  They must not be the future?

Click-it to see it  "Straight"   

[Pulleye16]

I thought they said kids pick up on languages better at a young age. All my nieces and nephews are learning a second language early on. I think it's great.

[tangle tooth]

Is the Chinese language mandatory or do parents have options as to a foreign language?

[snow1]

Dunno the facts,just thought at such a young age english is a challenge,not to mention my destain towards the ccp regime,was just curious what others thought.

Thanx for the feedback.

[Steve-o]

Info from the WBL School District

White Bear Lake Area Schools Elementary World Language.pdf