E.g. that reads "ke-tsu-ko-n" on the left. This is "hirigana" and there is also hirigana mixed with the kanji in the main columns. It's amazing, but I remember the hirigana pretty well!
Posted on 03/24/2017 11:21:34 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
I believe through the Annenberg (or is it Annenberg?) Foundation Ayers and others spent tremendous amount of $ and time influencing public education especially via texbooks, IIRC.
I used to homeschool/tutor kids and in the early 80s found kids’ textbooks vile propaganda as well as the most confusing bulls*** - I was appalled.
Kids who grow up without access to television tend to read and learn to think as adults rather than in the 9 second bursts trained in by Sesame Street and TV in general. One reason leftists cannot argue is that they have TV trained attention spans. They can hold on to a thought just long enough to make an assertion.
During the election count reporting in ‘88 I came home late at night from work and found my wife and the three kids who were older than toddler slack jawed and glaze-eyed watching the tube report the returns. None even twitched when I pushed the door open into the living room. Something snapped in my brain and I picked up the TV, carried it to the alley and put a piece of cinderblock through the screen. Wife never complained and the kids adapted quickly to life without TV. after a while if either wife or I were visiting at a house with the TV on and something interesting was showing, we might sit down to watch but after five minutes we would have to get up and go do something else or discover it is time to leave.
E.g. that reads "ke-tsu-ko-n" on the left. This is "hirigana" and there is also hirigana mixed with the kanji in the main columns. It's amazing, but I remember the hirigana pretty well!
TV has been entirely replaced by “ipads” for my GK’s. I don’t know whether that’s better or worse, but you’d have to think worse when you see the technologically honed hypnotic power that these devices hold over them. It’s all based on refinement of content, which tends toward a rapid patter with constantly shifting focus. I guarantee you it is MESMERIZING for them, just as much as I can hardly follow what is being said.
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As the millennials come to power, their world will have to change drastically due to their inability to read or calculate.
Actually, it already has when you consider cash registers look like Egyptian tomb art.
I don’t teach advanced math, but have noticed that not learning basic add/subtract/multiply/divide, along with the inability to read/comprehend math questions, these students are very lost.
They are so reliant on calculators/computers/various gadgets, that they have no estimating skills. If they pressed a wrong button and the calculator spit out some incredible figure, they wouldn’t have a clue that it was wrong.
Awhile back I was shopping in a small grocery store when they had an issue with their cash registers. For some reason the cashiers were in the position of having to count out change to the customers. They had to shut down - nobody could do it with any accuracy. I also recall (I haven’t tutored for a number of years now) some of my students trying to tell time....it was sad. Unless it was digital, they didn’t have a clue.
Between the poor quality of education and the focus on teaching kids that certain lifestyles are normal, why anyone sends their children to public school if they can help it is beyond me.
The liberals are deliberately dumbing down America. Not only do they teach children in a manner that keeps them from understanding, it is done in a manner that makes learning no fun, makes it undesirable and teaches our children that they don't need it or want it.
At the same time, students who perform above average and who are more intelligent are stigmatized and villified.
This is the exact same technique performed by Pol Pot, the same technique Mao used and the Chinese still use.
The goal: Rendering our children into uneducated, ignorant stupid illiterate workers and peasant laborers who will always believe everything they are told no matter what the facts say.
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