Posted on 03/27/2019 6:05:13 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
I know, I know, you don’t want to think about all the bad public schools out there. Nothing to do with you, right?? Wrong. The effects are oozing through the society. You are in danger.
Want safety? Here are three threats you have to overcome:
1) THE EDUCATION ESTABLISHMENT CAN’T BE TRUSTED. Almost a century ago, they took a wrong turn, and went down a road marked SOCIAL ENGINEERING. The problem for everybody else is that these ideologues hope to wreck the society we’ve got, so they can build the collectivized world they dream about. (The honest term would be Socialist Engineering.)
They justify the planned transformation with this bit of fluff from John Dewey: “Not knowledge or information, but self-realization, is the goal.” What a quack. After all, it’s new knowledge that typically leads students to self-realization. The Left wants to use schools to turn kids into compliant comrades; this truth can’t be told, so a lot that goes on in our schools is disingenuous. Educators prattle endlessly about “education,” but their true passion is making sure that very little of it, in the ordinary sense, occurs.
2) BIG MEDIA AND ELITE UNIVERSITIES ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM. The media seem to think they should take orders from the NEA, etc. I see this pattern unfolding in my town, where the local paper will run 50 articles about one of its favorite liberal issues, but not one line about why a quarter of the kids don’t learn to read, or they drop out of school.
Professors at the best universities should have jumped into the Education Wars, the Math Wars, the Reading Wars. But I can’t discover a single professor at my Ivy League school who stepped forward to support Rudolf Flesch or to decry the decline of the public schools.
We have to be disappointed that so many professors and journalists allowed themselves to be co-opted by the Education Establishment. Bottom line, we can’t expect help from the people who SHOULD be saving us.
3) WORSE STILL, MOST BIG SHOTS DON’T CARE. Talk to doctors, lawyers, bankers, brokers, executives, psychiatrists, movers and shakers of all kinds. Try to find one who knows anything about education or cares. They went to a good school years ago. Their kids went to private schools. Public schools are for them like a bad neighborhood on the other side of town; there’s no reason for them to think about it.
Listen to me, you rich, successful people. A bad part of town will stay put, but the neighborhood called Bad Education is now oozing along your street. It’s seeping through the walls of your house, and into your living room. You might not escape. Tens of millions of people who can’t count, can’t read, can’t do a job correctly, don’t know enough to care about voting—this uneducated horde will hurt every part of your life. What stake do they have in sustaining a civilization they don’t understand and know little about?
So what is the answer to this hopeless situation? Here it is: all practical, successful people—in order to save their own skins—have to be much more involved.
The Education Establishment has a genius for finding the counter-intuitive, likely-to-fail approach. Almost everything is backwards. Business executives, forced to spend a day in a public school, would probably have nervous breakdowns. But you know what the even goofier problem is? A bunch of business leaders, eager to make improvements, would hire consultants from some place like Harvard’s Graduate School of Education! The very people who created all the problems. That’s how cowed and bamboozled everyone is.
Biggest hoax of the last 100 years is Whole Word
No, the practical, successful people must stick to their MBA guns. Be businesslike. Ignore the faux-experts. Do what works, for a change.
I’d argue that the biggest hoax of the last 100 years is Whole Word. (It’s the reason we have so many functional illiterates.) So a good first step for every concerned citizen is to understand WHY Sight-Words don’t work. When you personally understand the deception, you’ll be angry. Maybe then you’ll get busy and get bold. We need you.
Then find out why New Math and Reform Math were evil jokes; why Constructivism is much ado about nothing; why every slogan used in the public schools—self-esteem, multiculturalism, and 25 others—is really just an excuse to teach less. At some point you’ll be mad as hell, and you won’t take it anymore.
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The US Army has education centers all over the country to teach new recruits skills necessary to be able to read, write and do basic arithmetic.
If you believe that is a new development in just this century, I can assure you that it is not.
I told students in school over 10 years ago that a despot would rise up, blame the rich, and people would follow him/her. They disregarded what I had to say. The only thing left are the consequences.
I refer to Orwell's Animal Farm
Should be ...
JESSIE & BLUEBELL'S PUPPIES
Q: What is the reason Napoleon took Jessie and Bluebell's puppies in Animal Farm?
A: Napoleon takes the puppies away from Jessie and Bluebell as soon as they are weaned because he wants to use them as a private security force.
Napoleon tells the mothers that his taking them is an advantage.
"As soon as they were weaned, Napoleon took them away from their mothers, saying that he would make himself responsible for their education." (Ch 3)
When Napoleon takes no interest in Snowball’s committees, and says “the education of the young was more important than anything that could be done for those who were already grown up” (ch 3), he is really cementing himself in a position of power.
Thus early on, Napoleon is already taking steps to make sure he and not Snowball is in charge. When it is time to drive Snowball out, the puppies re-appear as “nine enormous dogs” and run straight for him (ch 5). They are “as fierce-looking as wolves” and keep close to Napoleon. He later uses them to tear out the throats of animals he says are traitors.
Compared to other animals on the farms, dogs have an advantage. They are strong, intelligent, and have very sharp teeth. It is for this reason that Napoleon takes the puppies as soon as they are born. He keeps them away from their mothers until they are adults, when he brings them out as enforcers. Other animals are less likely to question Napoleon and the pigs when they are backed up by snarling dogs.
The taking of the puppies represents the importance of a security force loyal to the totalitarian leader. Napoleon uses the dogs to keep the other animals in line.
BOTTOM LINE: “... the education of the young was more important than "[Snowball's committees].
In other words, having control of the minds of the young is much more important than having control over politics, over the long term.
Defund Big Ed.
If you believe that is a new development in just this century, I can assure you that it is not. (T-Bird45)
I tried to get into the GED program at my garrison in Germany. It was a half day in a warm classroom rather than working on tank maintenance in the motor pool in February. But my platoon sergeant figured out that I was already a high school graduate. It was worth a try.
Exactly.
True. Why don’t more people (so called conservatives see that)?
Not gonna happen.
How about more Conservatives get involved in Big Ed?
Oh right. It’s too hard.
Yes, I learned about this about 25 years ago when a friend of mine took over command of the remedial school at Ft. Bliss, TX.
“Elites” need to understand - they can’t hide from the hellhole... it WILL effect them too.
bfl
Destroy Big Ed: unConstitutional. States’ Rights.
For the record:
My best friend spent the bulk of her professional life as a conservative surrounded by (illegal, unionized) leftist DNC activists in public education - until the arsons, the murders, and the expectations that she, at 5’2”, break up fights between, for instance, two huge foreign-born males got to be too much.
Too many like you on this forum make unfounded, categorical, and arrogant assertions.
(I chose the path of church ministry, so, no, I never did.)
“...I learned about this about 25 years ago...”
It was over 40 years ago for me as a brand-new Second Lieutenant who was tasked with ensuring the soldiers in my artillery battery could pass the written portion of the then-new Skill Qualification Test for their specific military occupational specialty. The reading deficiencies were glaring and it was covering material the soldiers had already experienced in their job training after Basic. The NCOs were in charge of preparing them for the hands-on portion of the qualification test.
I hope more Conservatives will get involved with education at every level.
One of my big themes recently is that everybody has to be an education reformer. Learn more about what’s going on in the schools. And then you’ll want to do something about it.
Bite me. I grew up and worked in inner city schools until I escaped and raised my kids in an, if not, the most affluent suburb in NJ and work in affluent NJ.
I experience everything and more your “friend” did, lol. I got myself and kids out.
I chose the path of working to make a difference so again fuck you.
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