Posted on 01/30/2025 6:32:14 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
It’s common core math.
AI. Kids are looking up all the answers to homework
Take their phones away no computers get outside talk to people
And common core math is not training their brains properly
My father flew jets off carriers in the fifties. He spoke Spanish as a second language. Knew the classics was an all county star defensive end. Got an engineering degree at the naval academy while playing football. In his yearbook are pioneering astronauts, right there in my living room in the lucky bag
My father was a wise assed orphan from the Bronx. These guys could not have done any of that without basic reading writing and math. Script writing is fundamental. AI has taken over. Common core math is put in to destroy the mind
How about a complete purge of Democrats from the system?
Import the third world, become the third world. It seems to be a big mystery how increasing number of people from low IQ populations will affect scores. If we get enough of them we’ll be lucky to maintain indoor flush toilets.
The COVID lockdowns and il prepared distance learning certainly negatively affected students learning. However, the public schools were failing long before COVID. Schools spent too much time on feel good programs, CRT and gender diversity and neglected to effectively teach basics like reading and math. The educational establishment ended successful phonics in teaching reading in favor of various failed look-say methods that teach reading as if English was based on hieroglyphics. Variations on the new math also failed to teach basic math skills. Our schools have become failure factories churning out students who are not proficient readers and who lack basic math skills. I also find it disheartening that many students today cannot read cursive writing nor tell time on an analog clock, skills we had mastered by fourth grade.
This goes nowhere near addressing the language developmental delay in toddlers and primary schoolers caused by their inability to see the faces of adults and learn to read expressions.
I taught in high school for three years following retirement from engineering. Most of the inference with teaching came from parents. They get angry when you assign too much homework and when you don't assign enough. They get angry when their baby gets bad grades, insisting that the teacher is expecting too much. They get angry if you attempt to discipline their kid, angry if you don't discipline some other parent's kid. They get angry if you don't use a Merry Christmas grading system, rounding up by at least thirty points. Parents take all of these issues to court, and usually win.
Then you have parents of virtually retarded kids who sue to have their student placed in advanced classes. Schools are no longer allowed to place students into "tracks" that suit their aptitudes. Parents send young wolves to class who prey on more timid students. Teachers by law must each deal with a full spectrum of aptitudes, behaviors, and desires to learn. Now throw in those God-forsaken cell phones.
Many of today's students think that everything taught in school is unnecessary. They can get away with anything and everything.
Oh, yes, its the teachers' fault.
No, common core math was put in as an attempt to appease the crowd that sued the schools over math being racist.
I taught in school for a short time. It IS the parents. You are laboring under the delusion that all parents share your enthusiasm for your child's education. Most parents use the school as a day care facility and don't even monitor progress reports concerning their children.
I taught in school for a short time. It IS the parents.
It is a complex problem and solution. Don’t narrow it down to one.
I did as I pleased and my administrative advisor and the principle ran interference for me. My school was all-in for the students and the teachers. I was 70 when I started teaching; and, was stunned at how difficult the government has made teaching. Few parents can be pleased. Few will work with the teacher in order get students functioning. Most don't even look at progress reports. Some beat their children raw. Our society is very sick.
Of course you are correct, but that is not the narrative the press are trying to push here. Which is that Covid was far more dangerous & damaging than what is currently being perceived by the majority. Because the fear is no longer generating the mass hysteria with the push of new viruses that they are mentioning. Thus they must bring back the Covid era hysteria if they are to control the people by generating mass fear. That mass fear allows for changes to be implemented when fear is rampant, and that is not happening now.
The woke dei system
“ ...they blame the parents...”
“It IS the parents. You are laboring under the delusion that all parents share your enthusiasm for your child’s education. Most parents use the school as a day care facility and don’t even monitor progress reports concerning their children.“
A Catholic woman at a Catholic event, at a family seminar, she leaned over from the pew behind me with a gentle shoulder tap, saying, “when we meet God we will have to account for the education of our children”.
My own upbringing, with suburban women keeping account of what was going on at school, the Dominican nuns with their Trump honesty and chuztpah, their fierce confidence in the Gospel, all came to me at once
Lo and behold there it was in the catechism. Parents are responsible for the education of their children
Pope John Paul II wrote about it
Of course that all has no bearing over non Catholics and any Catholic who does not care about such things- 98% of my famil, who hate the memory of rules and regulations yet at the same time worship the governamnt with trusting foolishness
It accounts for the constitution in which it clearly depicts that we are in charge of the government and therefore are in charge of the school system. Any disservice to our children is indeed settled right back Ont the parents
Period.
That bears amplification and being shouted from the roof tops. Thank you so much for that post.
Now do the same analysis for home-schooled kids and those in private schools that still met in person during the pandemic.
Also thanks to the federal government dangling money in front of the administrators so they can control education.
Most people are brainwashed into believing children cannot learn unless they sit in classrooms taught by teachers.
In reality, most kids could quickly catch up and even surpass expectations on their own with some good educational software programs.
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