When I was in the 8th grade, my teacher asked me to help hostess Parents Night. One of the parents asked how my teacher felt about the "new math"*, which we were being taught. She replied by explaining that the text had been put out by the School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG). She said she thought the new math was SMSG -- Some Math, Some Garbage.
In my personal opinion, Mr. Trump's executive orders are SMSG. While it is true that we need to ensure that history is being taught as it actually happened and not as someone wishes it had happened, it is equally true that the Department of Education (DOE) serves a useful purpose in striving to see that students throughout the nation receive a quality education. Rather than disband the DOE, we should reorganize it, establishing standards to which it must measure up and ensuring that only the truth is taught.
Not all of Mr. Trump's executive orders are as easily amended. The matter of illegal aliens is very complicated. On the one hand, one might argue that only criminal aliens should be sent home. On the other hand, one could just as easily argue that, by entering the country illegally, they all are criminal aliens, who should be sent home. What about their children who were born here? They are, by law, natural-born citizens; yet, are we going to allow them to stay while requiring their parents to leave? Surely, we can't wish for those children a life spent in foster care. Complications, complications, complications.
And, so, again, I say let us pray that the system of checks and balances, which our founding fathers put in place, be used to separate the math from the garbage in order to tame the rampant flood of leftist ideals, while ensuring that change does not destroy.
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* I have no idea what the new math was as opposed to the old math. I simply learned what I was taught. Perhaps, the difference was not in the math, itself, but in how it was taught?????
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