Overpaid liberal yuppies start own school, hilarity ensues

[Darth Executor]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/m...q0GUDCGusUYmcK

Parents are yanking their kids out of the “progressive,” $32,000 per-year private school founded by the Blue Man Group — which has no books and no tests — because their kids are barely learning to read, The Post has learned.

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School officials say students decide their own curriculum, and have no set arrival time. Grades run from kindergarten to third grade. A fourth grade is being added next year.

Sounds like a brilliant idea.

Some experts said parents who choose progressive schools shouldn’t expect to see the same results as they do from a conventional school.

Absolutely. They should expect worse results because it's a stupid idea.

Guacamole finally has something to be proud of: there are liberals out there ruining kids at a faster rate than he is. smiley_smug.gif

[lilpixieofterror]

So somebody thought it was a good idea to start a school where 5-8 year olds get to pick when they start and what they want to do?

[mossrose]

So somebody thought it was a good idea to start a school where 5-8 year olds get to pick when they start and what they want to do?

That's nothing.

I heard on the news the other day that people are now not naming their children when they are born. They are waiting for the child to decide what gender they are going to be, and letting them pick out their own names.

I'm guessing that will last until they need to put a name on a birth certificate.

[KingsGambit]

Wait.. the Blue Man Group? As in the performing group that paints themselves blue for shows?

[Ansgar Seraph]

So somebody thought it was a good idea to start a school where 5-8 year olds get to pick when they start and what they want to do?

Sometimes smart people do stupid things. Bertrand Russell founded Beacon Hill school on pretty much that principle, I believe.

[lilpixieofterror]

That's nothing.

I heard on the news the other day that people are now not naming their children when they are born. They are waiting for the child to decide what gender they are going to be, and letting them pick out their own names.

I'm guessing that will last until they need to put a name on a birth certificate.

That is pretty dumb, but this one still seems dumber.

[lilpixieofterror]

Sometimes smart people do stupid things. Bertrand Russell founded Beacon Hill school on pretty much that principle, I believe.

And I'm sure it failed too.

[Cow Poke]

Liberals are simply not good at money math.

[Ansgar Seraph]

And I'm sure it failed too.

Probably, though it remained open for some 15 years. Some of its innovative measures are paralleled in modern educational systems but self-governance among grammar students isn't really one of them.

—Sam

[mossrose]

And I'm sure it failed too.

I don't know, pix. By the time they get to the do-nothing-school, they should at least know what their name is.

[lilpixieofterror]

Probably, though it remained open for some 15 years. Some of its innovative measures are paralleled in modern educational systems but self-governance among grammar students isn't really one of them.

—Sam

I know the very traditional teaching methods were you sat down, shut up, and did what the teacher said, but trying to get 5-8 year olds to be like adults is pretty much fruitless.

[Nathan Poe]

Wait.. the Blue Man Group? As in the performing group that paints themselves blue for shows?

None other. How those guys fit the label of "overpaid liberal yuppies" I neither know nor care.

[2cents]

None other. How those guys fit the label of "overpaid liberal yuppies" I neither know nor care.

then why did you seem to care?

[Nathan Poe]

then why did you seem to care?

Did I? About what? Kingsgambit was curious as to whether or not the people in the article were, in fact, the "Blue Man Group" of performance art fame. They are.

[Cow Poke]

Did I? About what? Kingsgambit was curious as to whether or not the people in the article were, in fact, the "Blue Man Group" of performance art fame. They are.

And there are several "groups" of them. I had thought there was ONE "Blue Man Group".