School's Closed - September 13th

Subforum for the September 13th protest is up and running.

Did some minor tweaks to the site to make it faster, along with changing the look of the main San Diego Anonymous site. The portal layout is different as are a few of the graphics.

Especially the quote color.

Anyway: School's Closed is focusing on the Scientology front group known as Applied Scholastics, which was "Study Tech" put down by L.Ron.Hubbard.

One of the main academics points it has as an example is to make sure you don't read past a word until you understand what it means instead of using things like, oh, context to figure it out. The difference is that the dictionaries they use have a slant towards Scientology so the children learn different definitions for the words than normal.

Is our children learning indeed!

Plans for School's Closed include a raid on the La Jolla Delphi Academy that same week. It will be a different experience, and we can't do it spur of the moment. Doing it on a weekday would be better. Anyone wanna bet the little kiddies will love Xenu?

Study Tech is what Applied Scholastics is selling. Applied Scholastics is like Narconon -- just another way to get hubbard administered to non-scilons. It's a "package" that co$ tries to sell to governments in S. America and Africa. Then they bring the teachers and principals over here and indoctrinate them at their huge facility in Missouri.

askthescientologist says this about it:
http://askthescientologist.blogspot.com/2008/05/scientology-study-technology.html

The dictionaries are not slanted toward $cientology, they are ordinary dictionaries. The 3 main "points" of study tech are: never go past a word you don't absolutely know the definition of; if you're having trouble, make a clay version of what you're studying; and if you can't do the step you're on, go back to the previous step. the clay thing is pretty ridiculous and can be skipped if you have pictures of the thing you're studying.

Go back to the previous step? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Anyone would tell you to skip ahead and go back to it because the problem would become clearer using context.

Well, if you were trying to learn how to fix your car engine, and you got really stuck at one point, would it make sense to back up and see if maybe you went too fast earlier?

I can see how it would work.

The really scary thing (well, ONE of the scary things) is that all the things in study tech have these weird physical manifestations that go with them (and that course supervisors are required to recognize). So if a student looks like he's daydreaming, you know, staring out the window, that means he has a misunderstood word. And if he seems like he's turned to "wood" that means something else. It's truly unbelievable, but I BELIEVED IT! omfg! It's so embarrassing.

Anonagi wrote:

Go back to the previous step? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Anyone would tell you to skip ahead and go back to it because the problem would become clearer using context.

Have you ever done a math problem? Skipping ahead is not the best solution, sir.

I am OBVIOUSLY pro applied scholastics.

ANONdur wrote:

Anonagi wrote:

Go back to the previous step? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Anyone would tell you to skip ahead and go back to it because the problem would become clearer using context.

Have you ever done a math problem? Skipping ahead is not the best solution, sir.

I am OBVIOUSLY pro applied scholastics.

thank you captain obvious.
but this applies to every subject. not just math. math is obviously something that you have to start anew if you make a mistake. think about doing essays. projects. finals. imagine being forced to go over the same paragraph for days simply cause it wont be explained to you. you are given the material and expected to figure it out on your own. sauce or not. we all know all of scientology doesnt give each person every bit of information.

RandomFaceInCrowd wrote:

ANONdur wrote:

Anonagi wrote:

Go back to the previous step? Doesn't that defeat the purpose?

Anyone would tell you to skip ahead and go back to it because the problem would become clearer using context.

Have you ever done a math problem? Skipping ahead is not the best solution, sir.

I am OBVIOUSLY pro applied scholastics.

thank you captain obvious.
but this applies to every subject. not just math. math is obviously something that you have to start anew if you make a mistake. think about doing essays. projects. finals. imagine being forced to go over the same paragraph for days simply cause it wont be explained to you. you are given the material and expected to figure it out on your own. sauce or not. we all know all of scientology doesnt give each person every bit of information.

NO SAUCE!? Sauce is always important, in everything even when you can't find it.

I especially in math, always go back and see if I made a mistake even after I got the answer, I can make a simple a mistake as not having a proper sign or wrong decimal point or not converting correctly. To be inclusive tutoring helps more than trying to to figure it out completely on your own.

In theory I agree but how exactly can Study Tech apply to mathmatics? It can't - it has nothing to do with a misunderstood word. It's formulas and math, and is all busywork in equations with very little creative or critical thinking involved.

Even up to and including the advanced calc. classes I've taken it never had to do with "misinterpreting a word." Wouldn't it be better to reapply and work through the formula?

Although Clinton could have probably used Study Tech. It depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.