{"id":20459,"date":"2013-09-18T22:48:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T02:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20459"},"modified":"2013-09-18T22:48:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T02:48:34","slug":"what-did-your-child-learn-in-school-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=20459","title":{"rendered":"What Did Your Child Learn In School Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Daily Caller<\/a> posted an article about a quiz<\/a> given to a ninth-grade<\/a> Health Class in New Canaan, Connecticut<\/a>. The quiz is entitled, \u201cHow WELLthy Are You?\u201d<\/p>\n

Some of the statements in the quiz:<\/p>\n

\u201cI vote<\/a> for pro-environmental candidates in elections\u201d is one of the statements.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI write my elected leaders about environmental concerns<\/a>\u201d is another one.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Still other statements in the section include \u201cI report people who intentionally hurt the environment<\/a>\u201d and \u201cI try not to leave the faucet running too long when I brush my teeth, shave, or bathe.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

For example, the \u201cSpiritual Health<\/a>\u201d section contains this hopelessly confused religious statement: \u201cI have faith in greater power, be it a God<\/a>-like force, nature, or the connectedness of all living things.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article further reports:<\/p>\n

A score of 35-40 points in each category allegedly indicates that New Canaan ninth-graders are \u201cpracticing good health habits\u201d and \u201csetting an example\u201d for \u201cfamily<\/a> and friends to follow.\u201d It is mathematically impossible for ninth-graders to achieve this score in the \u201cEnvironmental Health<\/a>\u201d section if they \u201crarely, if ever\u201d vote for \u201cpro-environmental candidates\u201d or write to \u201celected leaders about environmental concerns.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have no problem with encouraging high school freshmen to protect the environment and to be politically aware. I do, however, have a problem with telling them what their criteria should be when they vote. The article points out that the students are told that they do not have to answer all of the questions. I would like to suggest that they not be asked to answer any of the questions, and we go back to spending health class encouraging good individual health habits. This quiz sounds more like brainwashing than a quiz.<\/div>\n
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Today’s Daily Caller posted an article about a quiz given to a ninth-grade Health Class in New Canaan, Connecticut. The quiz is entitled, \u201cHow WELLthy Are You?\u201d Some of the statements in the quiz: \u201cI vote for pro-environmental candidates in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[139,763,94,6322,6324,6323,6321,4413],"class_list":["post-20459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-connecticut","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-environmental-health","tag-environmental-issue","tag-ninth-grade","tag-quiz","tag-recreation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20460,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20459\/revisions\/20460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}