Posted on 04/08/2018 3:01:58 PM PDT by simpson96
RUSH: This is Brill. Rosamond, California. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. I’m a former educator. I taught for several years down in LA. My thing is that what we see among the Millennials in the high schools is not accidental. It’s because of their schooling. The word “school” comes from a Greek word that means to control, hinder, or retard. And that’s what it does. Years ago I was corrected or chastised by two different principals and told, “You cannot use the United States Constitution in teaching social studies to your third graders.” I asked why. I was told, “You may not know this, but the Constitution contradicts the state approved textbook too much.”
RUSH: You know, some years ago this would have made me stop and say, “No, no. You gotta have that wrong.” But not now. Not now. I totally understand that. Say this again. You were told not to teach the Constitution because it contradicts the state RUSH: Well, now, why do you suspect they really didn’t want you teaching the Constitution?
CALLER: Well, I would go to the sources. And, now, these were third graders, so they’re 8 and 9-year-olds. I was teaching my kids how to learn on their own. I was not teaching them how to take standardized tests. Because when the focus is on the standardized test, it prevents thinking, because it’s on coming up with the right answer —
RUSH: Right. It’s memorization.
CALLER: Yes. Not only that, but years before when I was doing my student teaching, at that time I had some high school classes, I was teaching that, and I had a theory that standardized testing controls the ability to learn. The course of study at that point was the First World War, and the core literature book that they were using was All Quiet on the Western Front. And I gave my students — these were tenth graders — a four-question quiz. And none of them could finish it. They couldn’t find the answer.
RUSH: Of course. Because they’d not been taught how to think. It’s a disaster out there. It is. approved textbook too much?
CALLER: Yes.
Rosamond CA
Right next to Edwards AFB.
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We don’t need no .... Constitution
Indoctrination.
The state needs for everyone to think in lockstep with each other.
Ever wonder why the best minds come out of private schools (including homeschools) and colleges?
Because in those quarters they want kids to learn how to think for themselves, not in lockstep with the state.
It derives from from Greek σχολή (scholē), originally meaning "leisure" and also "leisure-time activities" (which is, in the first instance, conversation, and later, places for dialogue with a philosopher.)
The rest of what he's saying may be right on the money, but I wish he hadn't started out with something so obviously dumb.
Well, carry on.
standardized testing controls the ability to learn.
I taught 7th-graders in Missouri the U.S. Constitution. The state requires that schools that give diplomas must teach both the U.S. and Missouri Constitutions. Since I taught at a K-8 district, the tests were required. We went over every word and they had to take the test until they could pass (60% D-).
Because we were a K-8 district, our kids went on to high schools in K-12 districts, where they had to take the tests again to graduate.
They’ll be teaching them about gender theory and basket weaving instead.
teaching the Constitution would indeed be confusing, especially for young tots
I used to teach it. Problem was.. almost all of our Constitutionally-enscribed rights or liberties have been, to coin a phrase, Infringed (or Abrogated)
so, if you gonna teach the constitution, you have to teach the clause, provision.........where it came from and why......and then how we lost that right or liberty
it takes quite awhile to do a good teaching job on the constitution so the students really learn the truth about it, as we say.......coming and going
I wrote my congress critter and got 30 copies of the the US Constitution sent to me. I handed out most of them and asked my son’s friends for their interpretation of the first three amendments.
Excellent educational opportunity.
agreed (and good for U!)
but as you’ve probably noticed, there’s a great chasm between our USA Constitution’s provisions and what little remains of liberties today
a tremendous amount of ‘infringement’ has taken place
so...will the next generation be able to regain what we’ve lost? your work with your son’s friends sounds very helpful
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Censoring the Constitution is a very dangerous concept and should be illegal in the extreme.
Wow!
Treason!
I simply cannot fathom what is tolerated these days.
I just don’t get that there isn’t a greater outcry against stuff like this.
Khrushchev said he would bury us. One of his tools of choice was going to be our public education system, another was mass media. It appears he is succeeding.
Last days apathy and folks running around to fill their personal lusts is all I can attribute it to.
I have a two little ones under 5. Their future looks bleak if the Lord continues to tarry.
This idiot never should have made it on the air.
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