Posted on 08/03/2019 5:36:56 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
[Professor Ludwig analyses developments in New York State to show what our Education Establishment probably wants to do everywhere. Scary.]
America's education system is driven decade after decade by a never-ending stream of jargon. Left-wing educators seemingly never get tired of reproducing their pap in schools of education and not-for-profit organizations. Their jargon continuously reconfigures and is infinitely creative in saying the same thing in different ways; decade after decade educational jargon expresses educational models that produce fewer and fewer diligent, capable, informed, goal-oriented students. The successive models since the 1890s can, in a general sense, be called "progressive education." These models express the desire of the government and the educational powers that be to engage in social engineering. This social engineering aspires to replace the parents and the family as the basic unit for passing on social and individual values and morality.
The government — that "global village" that superintends society, as Hillary Clinton expressed years ago — begins to bear responsibility for raising the little ones in the ways they should go in every respect. This progressive model of social engineering leads to a perpetual dumbing down of each generation. This dumbing down has been beautifully characterized in the classic Why Johnny Can't Read and in various books and YouTube videos by Charlotte Iserbyt, who worked in the U.S. Department of Education during the Reagan presidency....
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Since a lot of taxpayer money goes to finance schools, we need to demand diversity of thinking in all schools. There should be an equal amount of conservative thought and liberal thought. Any school that doesn’t have that diversity should lose all government funding. That means local, state and federal.
And also they need to actually learn something.
I know kids in some public schools in NYC who have 90 averages and I CANT BELIEVE what they don’t know.
We have the same thing here in AZ. I think they should teach in English only maybe that would free up teachers enough that they could actually teach reading and math.
Children pick up language quickly. It used to be a point of pride to speak English no matter how mangled. We have to go back to what works.
...would free up teachers enough that they could actually teach reading and math.
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I doubt the teachers’ ability to read & do math, let alone teach it.
Save the children. Outlaw public screwels.
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