Some are ignorant and some have wisdom.
Always been that way, always will.
Answer:
Actual capability and accomplishment is punished.
Incompetence and failure are rewarded.
Why try?
Radical Left teachers unions, Marxist college professors, national media an appendage of the Democrat party, depraved Hollyweird celubutard culture....need I gone on?
Well,.....what’s the answer?
A people inculcated in our history cannot be made servants of the state. Repeated early education in the Bill of Rights alone would probably be enough.
I am stunned, daily, at the lack if intellectual depth and understanding of American history by many people.
And I’m a High Skrewel drop out..
Okay, not really.
I mean, I left High Skrewel at 15 and went to college but, that was my Mom’s idea...
Perhaps we need to start firing incompetent teachers, based on their students’ achievement or lack thereof.
Four-plus decades of a public education system that was designed to do precisely that.
Where is Peruvia?
Unbelievable.
In 1990 I was a college student at a well regarded New England university. I came back to my dorm room after my microbiology final to find my roommate feverishly studying for a US history exam. She was frantically looking through her notes for some fact. She looked up at me and asked if I could help. I reminded her that I was a science major and history was not my forte but I could have a stab at it.
Her question.... what side did Lee fight for?
Blame parents and schools ( not just public ones)
I’ll go ahead and state the obvious. Knowing that the Revolutionary War preceded the Civil War is not just the retention of meaningless facts. It’s the retention of a conceptual view of history that relates one event leading to another. It’s not possible for one person to know all facts of history, but knowing the difference between two of the very few most important events in your country’s history is nice. Especially if you plan to be a historian.
Kids today are shocked to find out that many colleges actually want them to LEARN something in school. Well over half of all students who begin college have to take remedial math and English before they can continue in school.
Some of life's questions that go unanswered.
We still teach students to memorize useless facts for standardized tests when almost all the info they could want is available at the click of a button.
We should be teaching them how to properly look for info online & how to judge what is credible vs. not credible, among other reforms.
Give them the basics/core classes & knowledge until, say, 6th grade. Then totally revamp how kids are taught, making it more appropriate/relevant for the 21st century, following that.
Easy. Public educators.
Because single females are inherently vain and narcissistic but have the power to vote.
I have a son that was in his senior year of High School, when we were watching the movie Apollo 13. He asked me why the U. S. didnt continue on and go to the moon anyway, after that little event. I then knew we were going to have to review some real history before he got out into the World.
It’s not the teachers as much as it is students that don’t care, and textbooks that have full chapters on Rosa Parks, and one paragraph on Thomas Jefferson.