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I will always remember when a local teen in my area rented a hotel room in January 2021 and took his life because he could not play high school football. He was a senior. 18 years old.
1 posted on 01/30/2025 6:32:14 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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It’s not just Covid.

It’s the entire failure of the entire educational system that focuses more on DEI and brainwashing kids than educating them.


2 posted on 01/30/2025 6:34:07 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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path to recovery remains far rockier than experts had hoped...

Proof the experts can’t see the obvious.


4 posted on 01/30/2025 6:36:05 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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Ping!..................


5 posted on 01/30/2025 6:37:34 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Bad parenting.


6 posted on 01/30/2025 6:39:20 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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COVID-19 is the scapegoat for failing test scores. It has been going down for years.

Our school district has 4% math proficiency 11% reading proficiency. Handwriting is illegible.

Public schools are not teaching the foundations of reading, writing, and arithmetic, and majoring on the minors.


8 posted on 01/30/2025 6:40:33 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. Psalm 33:12)
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Well, having seen so many clips of what is teaching kids, I imagine an actual education is at the bottom of their priority list.


10 posted on 01/30/2025 6:42:58 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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Students aren’t recovering from covid related school shutdowns.


13 posted on 01/30/2025 6:45:36 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
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Students aren't recovering from covid. Test scores are getting worse.

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thats a academia/commie mission accomplished.

15 posted on 01/30/2025 6:48:40 AM PST by cuz1961
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I played high school football. Played college football and rugby. All it got me was arthritis in my ankles 45 years later.

That kid should have talked to me. He wasn’t missing anything.


16 posted on 01/30/2025 6:48:40 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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They can’t handle the common cold? What is wrong with their immune systems? Did someone get vaxxed and have their immune systems degraded as a result?


18 posted on 01/30/2025 6:52:41 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide (Psalm 146:3 "Do not trust in princes, in the Son of Man, who has no salvation.")
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A few causes: anarchy in the classroom; parents not doing their job; social promotion; dumbed-down curricula; and DEI displacing merit.


21 posted on 01/30/2025 6:57:53 AM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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No paywall - https://archive.ph/0BZoQ#selection-1451.32-1451.36


26 posted on 01/30/2025 7:04:13 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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Raising Robust Readers. True phonetics. Total sensory use for all types of learners, oral, visual, motor. GREAT program.

https://raisingrobustreaders.com/


27 posted on 01/30/2025 7:07:00 AM PST by huldah1776
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“I have many students who don’t even speak English and they are in 10th-11th grade. They have to communicate through their iPhone translator with me.”

recently posted on FR


30 posted on 01/30/2025 7:15:20 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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did they test the kids for their knowledge of pronouns, white privilege, and gay sex positions? American public school kids lead the world in knowledge of these subjects.


31 posted on 01/30/2025 7:15:55 AM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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Covid has nothing to do with students’ apathy in their preparation or with their parents’ negligence.
35 posted on 01/30/2025 7:27:36 AM PST by californian by choice (Who are those who believe in science?)
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DEI and covid came at the same time.

It’s the DEI, not the bug.


36 posted on 01/30/2025 7:28:32 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Call Traitor General Milley back into service, bust him to private, courtmartial, convict, hang.)
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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


42 posted on 01/30/2025 8:27:26 AM PST by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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How about a complete purge of Democrats from the system?


43 posted on 01/30/2025 8:47:23 AM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)
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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.


45 posted on 01/30/2025 8:56:22 AM PST by The Great RJ
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