BS. Another attempt to destroy American education!
(Pretty successful so far, don’t you think?)
I don’t know if it is a deliberate attempt to destroy education or a much more common “road to hell is paved with good intentions” effort. The fact is (and nobody disputes this) those of us educated in the 50s (and of course taught by teachers educated years earlier) got a better education than those educated today. Math, history, English, and science were all taught using methods that are rejected by more modern “educators”. I taught for more than 30 years and the expectations were always revised downward, never raised. It’s a shame really.
By law, a forced captive audience with no other alternatives and administrators and higher ups in be bureaucratic chain are then free to experiment on the children with different mind control and social engineering techniques all the while pushing the liberal agenda.
Tools of the mind was a technique that failed miserably at my wife's school and left first graders way behind and cost the district hundreds of thousand of dollars. No apologies nor postmortems, they simply moved on to the next “program.”
Another program is investigations math.
Bottom line: what makes the difference are involved parents.
“(Pretty successful so far, don’t you think?)”...
So yesterday I go to ‘check out’ of the opthamologists office and am told I owe $89.72. Give her a $100.00 bill AND 72 cents.... ah, Hell’s Bells ...no sense even relating the rest...
Pathetic what has happened to education re math.......