Despite low reading proficiency rates.
EAG: WASHINGTON, D.C. – District of Columbia Public Schools officials are embarking on a bold new education initiative: teaching all second-graders how to ride a bicycle.
As student proficiency continues to languish, district officials added the requirement as part of a joint program with the District Department of Transportation and private donors, who provided 1,000 bicycles for the initiative, The Washington Post reports.
The plan is to spend an hour a week for a month showing the elementary students how to ride as a memorable “cornerstone” learning experience, district officials said. The District currently boasts a growing percentage of bicycle commuters – among the top five in the country – while an opposite trend is occurring with low-income students in wards 7 and 8.
“We decided second grade is the foundational year,” Walker-Hones Elementary School physical education teacher David Gesualdi told the Post. “A kid needs this experience before second grade, and if they don’t receive it by this age, we are going to provide it.” more here
I imagine that the educationists will use operant conditioning to train the kids to ride two or three abreast on the wrong side of the street and that it is OK for bicyclists to ignore street lights and stop signs. That’s how the educationists ride, after all.
Some of us cyclists don’t do that sort of crap, conventional iOTW wisdom notwithstanding.
And how long will it be before some wildabeast finds a gutter dwelling lawyer to sue because either:
Her child of color did not get a nice bike like the white kid
The kid gets hurt while learning to ride
The kid gets beat up and gets his bike stolen
One of the kids uses a bike in a drive by shooting
The kid gets run over by a D.C. Bus and the city gets sued
We can’t teach them to add or subtract, to read and write, but we can teach them how to ride a bike to look for recyclables so they can by smokes and booze….
Um, forgive me, but isn’t how-to-ride-a-bike traditionally something taught by the kid’s dad?
Where is this happening again? DC?
Ah, got it. Never mind.
I’d rather have a mini bike
I’d rather have a 1954 Vincent
“Series D” Black Shadow. (-:
Point #3 was the first thought that came to mind. Someone going to get killed over a bike.
Yep. Since candy is out of the question, they will probably give the kids their drugs of choice for reinforcement of behavior. With any luck though maybe the trainers will only have Moo lunch coupons to give out as rewards.
I want a plasma car (for adults). http://www.amazon.com/PlasmaCar-Ride-Lime-Green/dp/B015QEMXIQ/ref=sr_1_72?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1443381985&sr=1-72&keywords=plasmacar
Reading, Riding and Rithmatic.
The DC dads , if known, will steal the bike and use it as a get away vehicle when he robs a liquor store.
So there’s an increased call for harvesting organs from more matured children?
Man after my own heart; “Under no circumstances should bicycles “share the road” with cars, trucks, and buses.”
http://laurencejarvikonline.blogspot.com/2015/09/share-roadand-die.html
At first your car will wants plasma…and then it will want bodily organs….
Gee Wally, looks like they’re gonna have to start learning on unicycles!
Yup, if they kill each other over tennis shoes whaddya think the ferals are gonna do to each other over bikes!
I taught all of my kids how to ride a bike. I can’t think of many other things worth living for on earth that are better than those times. When this most basic staple of parenthood is turned over to the state it’s over. When God sends that meteor to finally destroy this planet I’m sure DC will be ground zero.
Why donate 1,000 bikes? When I grew up next to the “hood” as a boy they just took ours, because, you know, they were there.
Would that be a Planned Parenthood car?
This is what we get for spending $30,000 per student in DC.
Just one more thing the Øbamboozler can use to Cloward-Piven the Hell outta this country with!