Posted on 05/02/2018 5:55:14 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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Algebra II in the 7th grad?
Sounds like he will graduate by 16?
Direct result of common core.
The parents are responsible for their kids
Where’s the discussion of that ? Huh ?
I helped with this report and can tell you this has been known since 1980 and it’s thanks to Liberals, NEA, Liberal politicians (local, state, and federal), RINOs via their indoctrination, propaganda, and brainwashing of American children. I spent over 8 years working on this issue in an attempt to inform parents what was going on in the public schools and, in some cases, private schools. This report fell on deaf ears in Congress in the 1980’s and continues through today!! By design? You answer that.
Ronald Reagan commissioned this report:
A NATION AT RISK
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/risk.html
“Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur—others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling, and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18 months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to renew the Nation’s commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and breadth of our land.
That we have compromised this commitment is, upon reflection, hardly surprising, given the multitude of often conflicting demands we have placed on our Nation’s schools and colleges. They are routinely called on to provide solutions to personal, social, and political problems that the home and other institutions either will not or cannot resolve. We must understand that these demands on our schools and colleges often exact an educational cost as well as a financial one.
On the occasion of the Commission’s first meeting, President Reagan noted the central importance of education in American life when he said: “Certainly there are few areas of American life as important to our society, to our people, and to our families as our schools and colleges.” This report, therefore, is as much an open letter to the American people as it is a report to the Secretary of Education. We are confident that the American people, properly informed, will do what is right for their children and for the generations to come...”
Clearly we need more gay pride events at school, more gun control rallies and more left wing propaganda from teachers.
It’s a direct result of not teaching them the basics.
Instead, they focus on teaching them it’s ok to be gay, or tranny. And then we have the whole “climate change” bullshit.
Public schools are nothing but indoctrination centers for the left. And they have succeeded in their goals.
“The parents are responsible for their kids. Where’s the discussion of that ? Huh ?”
In many other FR threads. http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/parenting/index?tab=articles
Consider though — today’s parents of teens are products of the 1970’s pubic schools, when those schools were well into the progressive/PC/NEA/new ed program.
Frankly, this all goes back to the Vietnam war days when college students entering education got indefinite deferments. It was also when the Alinskyites were recognizing that all they had to do was to take over public education (and college education) with enough Alinskyites to propagandize multiple generations of students. They are second rate students (compared with the the rest of the world) but they are now great and devoted social justice warriors and democrat voters. And if Parkland is representative, more are coming.
You have to give them credit: they accomplished their mission. Now how do we drain the swamp that is American education?
Also pay attention to the progress over time. Scores are higher than they were in 1990, but if we control for ethnicity, we do seem to be been plateaued for a number of years. Aggregate scores over time are much affected by the fact that the population share represented by both white and black students has declined, while the shares for Asian and Hispanic students have increased. The Asians, of course, bring up the averages. The Hispanics bring them down. Since we are on track to become majority Hispanic in the foreseeable future, this is not good news.
“We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament.”
So true. Brought to us by John Dewey, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, The Frankfurt School, Dr.Spock, CPUSA, NEA and pubic schools, Democrats, Columbia U and teaching colleges, MSM, Oprah and many churches.
“”Does the source have data on ethnicity in each area,””
They wouldn’t dare!!!!!
“”Direct result of common core.””
Long before that was ever heard of....
The basis for an intellectual oligarchy is being established. Make certain that they get a good leftist indoctrination, and this country is done in 2 generations.
It’s been in progress since the 1910’s with Dewey & Wilson. Barack was the precursor, Hillary was to be the lockdown.
Thank God for President Trump.
LBJ gave millions to the NEA for their Liberal propaganda that was put into the public schools thus dumbing down American students for decades. Then we have Common Core which is a disaster given to us by Liberals.
Keeping white people smart is racist.
“...and-I think-genetics.”
Shhhhhhhh, that’s an uncomfortable truth that shall not be spoken (unless it’s about a inbreeding southerners, natch).
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