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Mike Shedlock

Mike Shedlock

Mike Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for Sitka Pacific Capital Management.

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DASW Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 8:09 PM
Kids should not have homework. That is why they go to school to be taught by people that have to have degrees. Our tax dollars pay for teachers to do a job not hand it out to take home so we can spend our evening after working all day to do their job.
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SpaceVegetable Wrote: Oct 19, 2012 4:39 PM
Homework is where students exercise and reinforce the lessons learned during the day. It's the only way for kids to use their brains independently to put those lessons to work. Otherwise, they aren't learning to think and solve problems but are just being led or depending on others to do it for them.
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Keith305 Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 7:26 PM
What all is taken into account by total government spending? There are a lot of insidious taxes out there. This site says that, here in America, we pay 57.9% of our income in taxes.

http://nowandfutures.com/taxes.html
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dahni Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 5:16 PM
A great many school districts require promotion of students to the next grade level irrespective of learning; the students are only required to get older, not better educated.
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dahni Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 5:14 PM
They are also to get grades as good as anyone else in the class; you know, those who are intelligent and industrious and whose parents require them to do their homework.... And they will pass through every grade because they will sue if any of them doesn't get 'promoted' to the next grade level; you know, the promotion that is supposed to be from their evaluation scores, or how much they learned. Sad for all of us.
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Milt37 Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 2:42 PM
Come on Mike,

How can you expect French parents to help their kids with homework when they've spent all day sipping wine at the bistro? And what do they do they teach in school anyway?

"Eef ze train leeves Paree going 100 kilometers per hour, oh, who geeves a sheet?"

This a nation of smelly surrender monkies, whose unofficial flag since WWI is a pair of white panties, and I'm supposed to care?

The biggest problem is that Obama wants the US to follow in that tradition.
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Proud PA Hillbilly Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 2:34 PM
No wonder their work ethic has crashed. Sad, because France used to be the style we all wanted to emulate. Now, very little exciting comes from there.
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Kali_Fred Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 4:35 PM
I don't recall anyone wanting to emulate France. I'm only 56, so maybe I'm not old enough...
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David4 Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 1:09 PM
Such a stupid idea that I wonder whether we should look at it from the other direction. ¿ Could it be that the Teachers Union wants more teaching, i.e. more dues-paying teachers and that Pres. Hollande as part of his campaign to give it to them is speaking this nonsense as justification for more class time, more teachers, etc.?

Might also observe that a nation that can't produce enough real work is now inventing make-work for its unemployed. A decrease in GDP and per capita GDP is in their future.
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Wedey Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 12:22 PM
So glad I don't live in France. But it won't be too long before California adopts this same policy. If France wants to dumb down their populace, go for it.
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Louie13 Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 12:11 PM
“President of France Wants to Ban Homework Because It's "Not Fair" to Disadvantaged.” Reminds me of our schools dumbing down the tests in our public schools here in America so that Blacks can pass them, or wanting to do away with tests entirely because they are “unfair” to blacks, or wanting to do away with the grading of tests, because grades are “unfair” to Blacks.. There is no accounting for Liberalism wherever it may be.

Louie
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Proud PA Hillbilly Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 2:35 PM
Yes, that is dangerous.
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Dorothy152 Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 11:39 AM
Banning homework or not banning homework is a stupid issue. The issue is the attention and effort parents put into educating and helping their offspring develop the ability and skills to survive and become productive individuals in a civilized society. The ability to reproduce is simple, but the ability to produce successful offspring takes effort and ability. With 12 years of free schooling available to our children in the US, as someone who survived well with 9 year in the war torn U.K.. I think we would have fewer failures if we addressed real problems instead of allowing and making excuses for failed parenting and failed schools. Why not lengthen the school year? Children are no longer needed to bring in the crops
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Blair31 Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 12:07 PM
There's a move here to ban homework too. What kid wouldn't want to say "No homework," when asked by
Mom and Dad, and NOT get caught in a lie? Although here, the argument is "fairness" . It's the length of
time a student has to do it all. Five subjects=five hours of homework. Assuming a kid starts his/her homework at three o'clock, he/she, would complete it at eight o'clock. Here, it's not the POTUS who's calling for the ban on homework. It's actually parents, teachers, and students.
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SpaceVegetable Wrote: Oct 19, 2012 4:41 PM
I would support having less homework if the students were in school for a full day. They could use some of that extra time in school to do some of their independent work. Of course, the teachers unions will never let that happen.
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sashamanda Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 10:30 AM
The only way the US will raise its international rank on scholastic test scores is for other countries, like France, to gut their education systems.
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Gordon242 Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 10:20 AM
Crowley can concoct a reasonable excuse for having the transcripts, but why was Obama so sure that she had the Rose Garden Transcripts in her pile of papers ?
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COLLUSION
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badgerpat Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 1:01 PM
You realize this is approaching SPAM, don't you, Gordon? Why don't you just post this point, which is a good one, on those articles for which it is actually relevant? Thanks.
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Milt37 Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 2:25 PM
Badger,

I warned him on another column, but he keeps doing it.

I hate to flag him, since it's not Soros stuff, but Gordon has a long history of posting stuff over and over, I believe it violates the intent of posting, but TH doesn't seem to care.
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Charles SWVA Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 8:57 AM
I hope our Education Department is keeping an eye on this. If it is a total catastrophe, we will want to adopt it. Are you watching Arne?
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FrankMP Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 10:00 AM
How does an "ELITIST" class control commoners????
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Ben Linus Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 8:53 AM
The real agenda of leftists is to take all children from their parents to raise them by the government so that all children will be equally advantaged (translated: disadvantaged... indoctrinated).
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Bruce2142 Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 8:33 AM
France is the most economically illiterate and chicken doo country in the world! Every time I read a story about them doing something stupid like this, I think of a story that I read once. If you've ever heard the old adage that France practically invented the white flag, will get a chuckle out of it.
Throughout early history, France and England were always at war. On one occasion, the French captured an English Colonel. The French commander asked why they wore red coats when it made them easy targets. The Englishman replied, "Because if we are wounded, the men won't see the blood and panic." To this day, that's why all French officers wear brown pants!
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Kali_Fred Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 4:38 PM
I don't know when the change came to France (the Revolution is my guess), but they were pretty tough militarily before then. We couldn't have won our Revolution without them.
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John_Indiana Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 7:38 PM
I also heard this saying somewhere........."WW3 begins when the French surrender".
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Chris from Kalifornia Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 8:15 AM
The french voted their idiot in just like the U.S. voted in the idiot we have. We are headed down the same path to destruction if he gets re-elected. It will surprise me greatly if Romney turned out to be a good president but almost anyone would be better than Obama again. I could do a better job than Obama and that's really sad.
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Bruce2142 Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 8:27 AM
Anyone that has ever been in business where they were responsible for profit and loss, would be better than Obumbler!
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Words Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 7:31 AM
His goal is not to lift up the bottom students, but to drag down the top students. Our school treats the students differently depending on what level they are at. In the grade school honors classes the students were expected to do all the memorizing of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems at home. Class time is spent on problem solving and logic. In the bottom math class it is assumed that the students won't practice on their own, and they work on memorizing those things during class. The students in the honors classes are still tested once a week on those things (50 problems in 3 minutes), but their class time is not wasted on rote memorization.
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Pistol Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 7:45 AM
Sounds like a good school. The charter school at which i am an assistant teacher does much the same thing.
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Kurt114 Wrote: Oct 19, 2012 7:56 AM
Yes. When I started teaching honors classes most of the class time was spent on instruction. Practice, homework, was done mostly outside of class. These were mostly the musicians and athletes who had the busiest schedules after school. We allowed more class time for homework in lower classes because we knew from experience that they weren't very likely to do it outside of class. In the lowest classes we assigned no homework at all because we knew doing so was a waste of time. In general, the honors kids became professionals, the middle kids workers, and the lower kids breeders. Life's hard, but fair.
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Greg1084 Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 7:01 AM
I think Hollande will drive the French into a revolution.
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RobertMN Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 7:08 AM
They deserve everything they're getting. They voted for it.
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Pistol Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 7:44 AM
Just like we did.
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Charles SWVA Wrote: Oct 18, 2012 8:53 AM
Will the revolution involve the guillotine? For the leading rulers (royalty). If so, bring it on.
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