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I returned to college in 1989. While in grad school I had to teach, do odd jobs, be a gopher for my Prof and give tests.
The first time I gave one, I was shocked to see students cheating openly. Looking on other people’s paper etc. I warned them and they kept doing it. I finally had to threaten them.
They weren’t dumb btw, just cheaters.
CC students take placement tests. Some are placed into remedial classes. Your friend’s sister probably teaches remedial math.
Other students are placed into the college-level math courses.
Educators are taught badly if children have already lost interest just as they are entering the sweet spot of education, around 5th and 6th grade where children naturally have open brains and in years gone by, when taught well, they are able to learn languages like Latin and deeper math concepts.
They thing is educators don't even know they are teaching for bad results. It was planned that way in order to create adults who cannot think.
The schools are creating political activists. “Torpedoes” for left wing dogma. Academics is secondary.
It’s called negative learning. At some colleges you can test graduating seniors and they will perform consistently worse than they did as incoming freshmen.
The question was: If X plus 5 = 10, what is the value of X? It took her an entire week to get the kids to finally say ‘5.’ So the following Monday, just on a hunch, she gave them another problem: If Y plus 5 = 10, what is the value of Y?
Obviously the value of Y is X.
I know a good early childhood teacher who is subbing this year in public schools. She has observed that kids in upper elementary can’t read and don’t know basic arithmetic. Then she subbed in a lower grade at the same school and saw that the teacher reads everything, including test questions, to the children, then lets them correct their answers until each child achieves a 100. Even for reading tests. So the children are passing but learning nothing. This helps the school’s end of year “report card”, I guess, but the kids are doomed to ignorance unless they have parents that teach them at home.
A friend of mine characterizes K-12 public schools as ”failure factories”. I couldn’t agree more.
...read this, ping....
It’s kind of a two-tiered system: the kids of motivated parents are boosted ahead, with enrichment and tutoring and sports and test-prep classes and AP classes and internships. From day one. A few emerge from this with a genuine love of learning intact. Others are just tired, burnt-out, and hoping this will result in a respectable career somehow.
The other kids have curricula which is not nearly as challenging, and they have social lives which are not as conducive to deep thought (vaping in the park, or whatever). They are as burnt out on school as the over-acheivers, but have less to show for it. Not many will ever catch up.
If you asked them “how much you would have to steal from your parents if a bag of drugs costs $100 but you only have $50,” they would get the answer in a millisecond.
Those who question authority (i.e., those enforcing the socialist system) must be removed from the general population and reconditioned until they either can be made to cease this questioning...or else.
If you had been running a private school in our area I would have been eager to have enrolled my children.
Solution: Begin the process of privatizing all education from Pre-K through to university graduate school.