Posted on 04/02/2020 1:16:32 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
There are many drastic changes being made to our lives as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
But what few people appreciate is that Britain has embarked on one of the greatest educational and social experiments in our history.
In any normal year, schools would reconvene in two weeks' time after the Easter holidays for the summer term. Not this year.
Millions of children of school age, with the exception of those who are considered vulnerable or whose parents are in key jobs, will have to adjust to working from home for as long as six months.
It is an eventuality for which we have had next to no time to prepare, the risks are beyond the imagination, and of all the toxic legacies bequeathed by this coronavirus crisis this one may prove to be the most devastating.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Bingo!
Counter-argument title:
The Toxic legacy of Public education: How educationalists’ fear that students will actually learn something rather than be indoctrinated.
Teachers Urge Government To Reopen Schools Before Students Learn To Think For Themselves
https://babylonbee.com/news/teachers-warn-parents-arent-properly-equipped-to-indoctrinate-children?fbclid=IwAR1C43Gir2q6x34Pu-w-Olhnj48fFsUc8x0h9QLK6pJgDZMVAZdtILPf6js
I spent the greater part of my working career as a public school teacher (urban high schools - never a dull moment). And here are two things I learned:
- Most folks with fancy titles like “educationalist” or “educational consultant” don’t know what they are talking about.
- Most folks who have PhD’s in education don’t know what they are talking about.
People in the above two groups are actually counterproductive. They spew nonsense that has no connection to the real world.
Regards,
our children will do better without your union industry...
The Wall Street Journal had a piece yesterday about how New York City was coping with the shutdown. It showed a teacher helping a child use a laptop (no social distancing). The laptop had a sticker on it that said, “We choose #SchoolEquity, not the false promise of School Choice.”
The WSJ is very pro-school choice, so I’m sure they chose that photo to make a point about the school system’s “great teachers.”
He calls them “spivs”
That’s gotta be pretty insulting to those of Ukrainian descent...
For later
The rythm of eassuring the rhythm of the school year.....Lose the aspirational benefits,,,...Beautiful bullshit Washington, Lincoln They had to rhythm of the school year
THe bureaucrat soviet pedos want the power over your kids back
Zactly!
Exactly!
The only only toxic thing I see is the rabid Teacher's Unions.
I was talking to an old friend who is a leftist imbued with the leftist doctrine of the day.
She was telling me how the schools in her leftist state were trying to figure out how to manage, since they could not teach any child any more than any of the other children because learning pace has to be EQUAL. So the work would be to maintain what they have learned so far, and not to teach ANYTHING NEW. For that would violate the rules of equality.
the story Harrison Bergeron came to mind. TC sometimes I weep for the future of the children and the culture.
Not to mention the fact that all of the pedophiles in our public schools no longer have full access to our children.
Yes, “equity.” The results have to be equally craptastic for all.
I wonder if parents are noticing, perhaps for the first time, how little their children have learned.
It is sick.
My children and bright enough, but not rock and roll.
They excel in their fields, not because of their creativity, or wisdom, they excel because they have a much deeper knowledge base than their peers. Because they were homeschooled. And although what they learned in High school mattered, I find it is the broad foundation given in elementary homeschool that made the difference. Saxon Math and Core Curriculum. with a lot of add ons.
They have a similar knowledge base as the children of the elite.
this bodes for a dramatically different society.
Tragic.
He kinda was.
We better hurry up and get those public schools open .... or these kids might start thinking for themselves!
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