Politics in School.

[MDMAngel]

Re: Politics in School.

Those were two separate clauses my friend.

IF intention to post == !topic; !post

I mean, which negative were you advocating that I remove? I should have said "If you are not going to post on topic, you ought to post"? "If you are going to post on topic, you ought to not post"?

I think you just made a post just as irrelevant as my previous post. Is it that or are you just teasing?

(edit):

Well, if you're going to not post anything on topic, you ought to just not post.

I was meaning to use this quote.

[devonin]

Re: Politics in School.

I was responding to the post directly above mine. The one where he accuses me of a misused double negative. I was addressing his objection. How was that not relevant?

[MDMAngel]

Re: Politics in School.

I was responding to the post directly above mine. The one where he accuses me of a misused double negative. I was addressing his objection. How was that not relevant?

Oh, I used the wrong quote. I meant the quote before that one.

(edit): Oh. I see, sorry about the confusion... wasn't really planned on being that way.

[devonin]

Re: Politics in School.

Oh, well in that case, my comment that if you weren't planning on posting on topic, you should just not post, perhaps I should have coloured green, to indicate that I was "Moderator Devonin" posting that, rather than "User Devonin"

[somethingillremember]

Re: Politics in School.

Here's something to consider: if kids aren't subject to some sort of attacks because they are viewed as "just grade schoolers," then by the time they get to college, they will be completely chewed out because they don't know how to back themselves up, especially if they hold highly controversial viewpoints. And also, people should be careful not to subject children (that being people in twelfth grade or below) to only one side of arguments. At my school, a Christian school, I see many people who are subject to only one side of arguments (half of which being about global warming not existing and the world being 6000 years old. Way-to-go for destroying stereotypes!) and often don't hear anything on the other side. I can't be sure, because I haven't asked any of them, but I think that many people who graduate who are Christians and don't go to Christian collages (which are few, and I think that many of those who don't go to Christian colleges actually have looked up how to defend themselves) find it hard to argue points, because they don't know how to counteract them (actually, if you take the right courses, my school does a fairly good job at keeping people educated, but that's if you take the right courses).

[devonin]

Re: Politics in School.

I would suggest that an inability to defend the ideas that global warming doesn't exist or that the world is 6000 years old has nothing to do with failure to learn how to defend oneself logically, and instead has to do with the fact that those stances are incorrect.

[somethingillremember]

Re: Politics in School.

I would suggest that an inability to defend the ideas that global warming doesn't exist or that the world is 6000 years old has nothing to do with failure to learn how to defend oneself logically, and instead has to do with the fact that those stances are incorrect.

Yeah, but you get my point, right? And if they were taught some of the opposing side, wouldn't they realize that some of the things that they are taught are wrong (or at least, possibly)?

[AquaTeen]

Re: Politics in School.

I think that teachers should teach politics to students in lie their junior or senior year but they shouldn't teach religious things because there are students of many religions in schools so it wouldn't apply to some students and it may offend others due to controversies that some religions have had amongst each other in past religious battles.