Posted on 02/17/2022 4:29:27 AM PST by MtnClimber
How the left ruined American academic excellence.
Every 3 years, an international assessment of the academic performance of 15-year-old students in the academic fields of reading, science, and mathematics, known as the Program for International Student assessment (PISA) is administered. 79 countries around the world participate in the assessments, most of them developed, economically prosperous first world or developing second world nations.
As of the latest PISA assessment in 2018, the United States churned out some alarming results. Of the 79 countries, the average score (of reading, writing, and math) for the United States was 495, which put us at a ranking of 25th internationally. For Mathematics, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (the organization that administers the assessments) data, the United States ranked 37th internationally, for science, we ranked 18th internationally, and for reading, we ranked 13th internationally. Thus, for all 3 assessments, we didn’t even break the top 10 in terms of student achievement in 2018.
We are better than this, we have been better than this, and, if we reclaim the public education system from the Marxists, cretins and left-wing airheads running it currently, we will be better than this. Now, many may wonder: what are the root causes of these dismal results?
The answer is: there are several causal factors. The fact that American children do not go to school year-round and have a 3-month gap in their education during the summer does not help, and neither does the fact that most inner-city schools have dismal performances, which negatively impacts the overall scoring in the United States.
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And we are importing even more low performers that will slow down education even more.
These are abominable, loathsome creatures with all sorts of disguises. Libertarians. Democrats. Liberals.
They're all insane. The bane of civilization.
They're as bad as the gun grabbers and their lies, "It's for the children."
Too bad. Affirmative action did not contribute
I am surprised that affirmative Action programd were not mentioned. They were the first to attack meritocracy.
The left says the solution is obvious. Stop participating in the PISA. Problem solved.
The demand for equity is ruining education.
We have a permanent underclass of useful idiots who are paid to breed and vote for Democrats.
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