What our youth are learning today......???

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World War Eleven ??


Remember the days of old; consider the generations long.
YOUNG PEOPLE CANNOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ANY MORE BECAUSE HISTORY IS NO LONGER TAUGHT AS A REQUIRED SUBJECT IN PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS.
Theodore " Dutch " J. Van Kirk was the navigator on the " Enola Gay" when it dropped the bomb at Hiroshima Japan,
and is the last surviving member of the crew. This really happened…….
Dutch was asked to speak at a grammar school this past week.
The young teacher introduced him by saying the speaker was a veteran of World War Eleven (as in WWII)
Dutch stood up and walked out of the school without saying a word.
End of story..
 

:wtf: ...World War Eleven, now I've heard everything! :rolleyes: They cherry-pick the parts of history they want to teach nowadays, and like the news, they tell it in ways to sway the students views, IMO.
 

Obviously, not only did that teacher have no knowledge of history herself; but she didn't even understand how to read Roman numerals , or she would have gotten the name right, had she understood even one of those things.
I do agree with Ina, it was a teaching opportunity that was lost; but I can also imagine how angry and hurt that the speaker must have been when it happened. I suppose that after he got home, he probably thought it over after he settled down, and realized that he should have given both the students and the teacher a history lesson instead of walking out.
 
Remember when we were kids? We were everywhere. In trees, playing from can't see to can't see, roller skating, riding out bikes, finding kids for tether ball and baseball and just a good ol game of tag. Nowadays...every kid is on the pc or their parents gave them a cell phone. Try looking for a kid outside playing. Good luck.
 
When we got our first black and white TV, my mother limited our viewing very much. Just a few programs, and we were to do other things. We skated, biked, played all kinds of ball, tag, red light green light, jump rope, etc. Back then our parents had trouble getting us back in for dinner, and for the night. The kids now do not have any idea of how to interact with others, although thankfully, there are exceptions, or we'd be in bigger trouble than we already are as a society.
 
Are they like English Grammar Schools that concentrate on a classical education with emphasis on Classical Latin and Greek, History, Geography, English Literature, Mathematics and physical sciences? Had to believe any teacher at one of these schools (except possibly the rugby coach) would be that ignorant. Hard to believe that Theodore Van Kirk would just walk out without setting the teacher straight.

I'm still calling BS. Truthorfiction says it is unproven.

If it did happen, and at a grammar school at that, then the USA does have a problem with your teacher training system.
Are you paying them enough to recruit the best and brightest?
 
Falcon said:
World War Eleven ??


Remember the days of old; consider the generations long.
YOUNG PEOPLE CANNOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ANY MORE BECAUSE HISTORY IS NO LONGER TAUGHT AS A REQUIRED SUBJECT IN PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOLS.
Theodore " Dutch " J. Van Kirk was the navigator on the " Enola Gay" when it dropped the bomb at Hiroshima Japan,
and is the last surviving member of the crew. This really happened…….
Dutch was asked to speak at a grammar school this past week.
The young teacher introduced him by saying the speaker was a veteran of World War Eleven (as in WWII)
Dutch stood up and walked out of the school without saying a word.
End of story..
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Calling it World War Eleven was totally ignorant. As for that veteran, Gay, no credit to him, I suppose he would claim he was obeying orders when dropping that bomb. Nuking Japan was a WAR CRIME, imo.:mad:
 
The School Teacher Who Thought it was World War Eleven-Unproven!

TruthOrFiction.com is investigating this and we have this as unproven at this time.
Major Van Kirk is 92 years old, the author of "My True Course" and still speaks about the famous flight of the Enola Gay.

We have inquiries into the people who book Major Van Kirk for speaking engagements and will post findings here when we get them.

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On the other hand, taking the email at face value is not very smart.

A few verifiable facts would help, the name of the "grammar school", the month and year of the visit and a reference to a local newspaper or something else that could be checked. Who was present as a witness to tell the story would be helpful. I doubt it was the teacher. Was it Dutch, and if it was, who did he tell and why isn't their name mentioned? All we have is a statement that this really happened. That's a dead giveaway that it probably did not.

This email lacks all authority. Jackie22 is on the mark IMO.
 
This is just more dribble, and yes I mean dribble. It lets people say; see I am right our educational system sucks, or look how ignorant and stupid teachers are today. Even if it is true it is simply one person making a mistake, and the sad thing is he didn't take the opportunity to correct it and share his story. This kind of dribble will continue to wear away this country until we are no longer a great nation. Both sides will sit there and say see we were right and site all the many dribbles that slowly wore away our nation. They would rather prove they are right, instead of fixing the problems. Now that is drivel.
 
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Kaya said:
Remember when we were kids? We were everywhere. In trees, playing from can't see to can't see, roller skating, riding out bikes, finding kids for tether ball and baseball and just a good ol game of tag. Nowadays...every kid is on the pc or their parents gave them a cell phone. Try looking for a kid outside playing. Good luck.
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Every day when my grandson gets home from school, he gets changed and steps outside his back door and joins the rest of the kids playing on the green. In his house is a Tablet, computer, Wii and Nintendo DS and he does play on them but his first choice and that of other children in nearby houses is to be outside.

I do think you have to take into consideration where children live. He is very fortunate to live in an area where he can play on the green and the kids all share their toys, ride their bikes, play football (soccer), tag, trampoline and sometimes camp out. Other children are not so fortunate to have either a garden or access to a green. When I was young we could play on the road itself and cross the main road in complete safety to go further afield. Not so nowadays, cars lining the street and the main road far too dangerous to allow youngsters to cross on their own therefore restricting some children to their houses/yards etc.

I would also disagree about children not being able to interact or their lack of imagination.... that hasn't been my experience as a mother, nursery nurse and grandmother.



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Obviously, not only did that teacher have no knowledge of history herself; but she didn't even understand how to read Roman numerals , or she would have gotten the name right, had she understood even one of those things.
I do agree with Ina, it was a teaching opportunity that was lost; but I can also imagine how angry and hurt that the speaker must have been when it happened. I suppose that after he got home, he probably thought it over after he settled down, and realized that he should have given both the students and the teacher a history lesson instead of walking out.
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Here's 36 seconds of Dutch speaking!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkWZzN208Fo
 

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