Posted on 01/26/2025 4:06:14 AM PST by Libloather
collective of two well-educated and properly functioning parents combined with hundreds of dip-shits will not produce a decent education
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That is what you are not hearing:
In the home/independent education model thise two parents wouldn’t be there. Parents choose.
You are stuck in the traditional school model which is toxic and stulified. A model that encourages the parent behaviors you describe. A model that unleashes the bizarre teacher behaviors that we can all witness every day on social media and in person. A model that protects the system and the teachers and also concurrently abuses them.
It is an system that cannot change. It only can be left.
As thoughtful people leave what will be left is the debris that can turn into the old model from the past known as Training Schools. These were places that socialized and trained youngsters from difficult backgrounds or with difficult behaviors to function in society. They were mostly boarding facilities.
This is the direction we are heading.
There really are no standards...
Wow! So, will any hillbilly be allowed to set the standards for language and literature? Choose which history lessons are useful? Designate the level of mathematics needed in all walks of life? Do I have to put up with choices of other parents who see no reason to learn chemistry or physics?
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You are using current traditional pedagogical standards and methods. You assume herds.
I am discussing the future. Where families choose each child’s curriculum and the sciences and history are available at all levels. Do you know ALL MIT courses have been online for the past 20 years?
And if John and Mary want much less for their children, well the Amish and others have a 6 year curriculum that gives basics.
There really are not standards.
Children get pushed through, permitted to re-do, get one page Fill This Out And I Will Pass You sheets. Teachers get bullied by management to move kids along despite their behaviors or quality of output.
All a big lie.
So find a band of people and push back.
Funding must be cut.
Libraries consider themselves the depositories of all media.
They have to get patrons in one way or another. Certainly isn’t going to be with books.
Btw film and dvds have been part of Libraries for at least 50 years.
Not my decision.
Like humanities faculties in colleges conservatives are not permitted.
True but they can’t get the jobs . Not allowed in.
I have worked with a number who tried.
You keep telling me that my traditional views regarding education are a source of trouble. I disagree. I am a Citizen of the United States. It is my duty, in this self-governed land, to maximize the quality of life and prosperity of this Nation. I took an Oath of Office to defend this Nation from all foes, foreign and domestic. I view the degradation of the schools to be the work of domestic enemies. It seems natural to fight back and defeat them.
To my way of thinking, you are taking an elitist route, leaving your fellow citizens to die on the battlefield of poor philosophy. The Founders wrote at length about the need for the entire population to be well educated in order have expectations of longevity for the Republic. We have arrived at a sad state of affairs, mostly due to a degraded education. The ONLY recourse to that failing is to restore the quality of education to all.
It is our civic and Christian duty to restore the entirety of our Republic to its full potential. This clearly involves overhaul of schools and numerous other institutions. Such cannot be accomplished without influencing the philosophical and political outlooks of parent and voters. That is a very broad front for such a battle. On the other hand, our civilization is collapsing right before our eyes. If the best we can do is to retreat into private enclaves then collapse is a forgone conclusion.
Back in the days of the Vietnam War protests there were two slogans: America, love it or leave it and America, change it or lose it. Do you remember which side said which? Who won? The hippies won, mainly because they can work together.
"America, change it back, or lose it" aught to be the new battle cry.
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