{"id":18263,"date":"2021-06-27T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18263"},"modified":"2021-06-27T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T14:56:08","slug":"overnight-news-what-should-public-schools-teach-instead-of-twisted-sex-and-racial-hatred-how-about-the-times-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18263\/overnight-news-what-should-public-schools-teach-instead-of-twisted-sex-and-racial-hatred-how-about-the-times-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: What should public schools teach instead of twisted sex and racial hatred? How about the times\u00a0table?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cA dog who eats slowly is lonely. Prove me\u00a0wrong.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\u201cWhat\u2019s six times seven?\u201d<\/p>\n

I ask that question of school-age children \u2013 up to age 15 or so \u2013 everywhere I go. And since real estate is kids and dogs, I meet a lot of children. Guess how many kids know the times table?<\/p>\n

Excluding the Testudo families: Zero.<\/p>\n

Yes. Zero \u2013 the unfathomable quantity. School-age children know nothing,<\/em> with this situation having gotten substantially worse in my lifetime. (I have to smile at myself, writing so much into a world where fewer and fewer can read.)<\/p>\n

Even the bright sparks \u2013 which once would have meant the nerds but now apparently means the Marxists \u2013 know nothing beyond their indoctrination. The idea of the well-rounded man possessed of a broadly liberating<\/em> education is now upheld solely by cranks like me.<\/p>\n

We’ve been here before. We have Catullus because very dumb monks mistook a Roman of the Romans for a monotheist. No joke. But we ought not be here now.<\/p>\n

It is absurd to have to say that there should be no matters of controversy in compulsory eduction. So how much more absurd is it to insist that children actually learn something of the facts of existence in the 10,000 hours they waste at school?<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

CNBC:<\/strong> The future of home ownership is Latino.<\/a><\/p>\n

Real Clear Energy:<\/strong> Blackouts Loom in California as Electricity Prices Are \u2018Absolutely Exploding\u2019.<\/a><\/p>\n

CNBC:<\/strong> The most liberal and conservative tech companies, ranked by employees\u2019 political donations.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Daily Mail:<\/strong> Read this and you won’t click ‘I agree’ ever again: We’re being spied on by phones, computers, TVs, cars \u2013 even the doorbells. Worse, argues Oxford professor CARISSA VELIZ, we’re doing it to ourselves by giving away our data.<\/a><\/p>\n

TechnoFog:<\/strong> It is Time to End Compulsory Public Education.<\/a><\/p>\n

Lee Smith:<\/strong> America\u2019s Top General Read Marx, but Does Not Understand How It\u2019s Destroying America.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cA dog who eats slowly is lonely. Prove me\u00a0wrong.\u201d\u201cWhat\u2019s six times seven?\u201d I ask that question of school-age children \u2013 up to age 15 or so \u2013 everywhere I go. And since real estate is kids and dogs, I meet a lot of children. Guess how many kids know the times table? 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