Posted on 07/19/2022 5:16:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
When speaking to a friendly audience—the American Federation of Teachers—Biden couldn’t resist giving the game away.
Did you hear the First Lady blow her dog whistle last week? Jill Biden, who insists on being called Doctor Jill Biden, made remarks in Boston before a gathering of America’s second-largest teachers’ union, the American Federation of Teachers. She let slip in her address something many of us have suspected for a long time. In educratspeak, she admitted that public education is really public indoctrination.
As she pandered to teachers, Biden said:
There is so much weight on all of you—but you carry it. Our schools are where policies become people. And educators are at the center of it all.
According to polls, Americans are anxious about many things in July 2022, including inflation, the invasion of illegals (which Doctor Biden’s husband encourages), the cognitive decline of her husband, crime, and the culture wars tearing our country apart. American parents and others are also concerned about what public teachers are teaching American children.
Most of us think the purpose of public education is education. Now, thanks to Doctor Jill Biden, we know that the primary purpose of education is to promote leftist policies. The first things on the agenda of educrats like Doctor Biden are…
-Green New Deal
-Advocacy of LGBTQ+ policies
-Dismissal of Patriotism in favor of Globalism
Next served is a toned-down assault on our history borrowed from Chairman Mao. In classes, educators must downplay…
-Old ideas
-Old Culture
-Old Customs
-Old Habits
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The Teacher Unions helped Biden get elected so naturally he is obligated to let them pervert our children.
“Where policies become people.” What a horrifyingly bizarre statement, and seemingly all too true.
Trouble became, that became viewed as not sufficiently egalitarian so those classes were opened up to less capable students.
That ruined everything - did you ever have to teach a Chemistry class with half the class on IEPs?
Few took Physics after the requirements changed and grades became more important than knowledge.
Trouble became, that became viewed as not sufficiently egalitarian so those classes were opened up to less capable students.
That ruined everything - did you ever have to teach a Chemistry class with half the class on IEPs?
Few took Physics after the requirements changed and grades became more important than knowledge.
I did manage to get my Nephew a DVD copy of “A more perfect union: America becomes a nation.” I’m hopeful that movie will be a big help. If my Sister shows it to my Nephew, that is.
“My Sister grew up to be a leftist.”
I consider myself lucky, as our family is almost 100% conservative. In June we had a cousins reunion with a little over 100 people there. All MAGA, except for the wife of one cousin who votes RAT “because I’ve always voted Democrat”.
No thoughtful logic is involved, just that she’s always done it that way. And she just retired as Principal of a Catholic School in western NY.
Nephew is in the NJ school system
I was in the public education system in NJ long ago, grades 9-12. We even begun each day with the pledge and a reading from the Bible, King James edition. I recall little woke stuff albeit one teacher mentioned he was a member of the NAACP. Fram what I gather, things changed very rapidly down from there beginning circa the late 60s. The anti war movement had a major effect on the change. Interestingly the academics of the school has plummeted from its being rated a top 20 institution in the US to nowhere to be found now but they all know their rights and are very woke.
“Curricula is set at the school board level. And that’s where the fight should be.”
True, as long as the schools are willing to forgo state funding, federal funding, and accreditation (for private schools).
And, as long as there are no laws REQUIRING the use of certain curricula.
> Trouble became, that became viewed as not sufficiently egalitarian so those classes were opened up to less capable students. <
Yep. Near the end of my career, algebra was elicited as a prerequisite for both chemistry and physics, for the reason you mentioned. When we protested, we were told to teach algebra along with the science.
That’s as crazy as eliminating the Spanish 1 prerequisite to get into a Spanish 2 class. Just teach them both at the same time!
It’s possible. But it slows everything down to a crawl. And as usual, it’s the good kids who suffer the most.
Ugh! Autocorrect did me in again. In my post #29 it should read:
Near the end of my career, algebra was eliminated as a prerequisite for both chemistry and physics, for the reason you mentioned.
I’m also giving my nephew the “Constitution Quest” board game. I’m hopeful that, that game will also help.
Leftists started running for school boards years ago - and they're not even parents with kids in these schools.
I totally agree that some standards are set at the national and state level. But those standards are usually vague, and speak in general terms only. I’m not saying to ignore them. I am saying the real rot is at the school board level.
Here’s my experience, as a long-time public school teacher. The woke school board hires a team of woke consultants. The woke consultants write the curricula. These consultants might have the national standards in mind. But most of their garbage comes out of their own heads.
And their curricula is VERY specific. If it’s Day 28, the teacher must say this and do that. And woe to the teacher who strays even slightly from the script. I know quite a few excellent teachers who strayed. They were fired.
As I noted earlier, I taught upper-level science and I was able to retire before the tsunami hit me.
Before teacher unions the USA was #1 in k12 education, now with teacher unions we are in the bottom third amongst first world nations.
All public sector unions should be banned.
I haven’t heard of that game. This one is discussed often on War Room and is supposed to be excellent. Not sure it’s for kids, but maybe:
Tough to ban. The real solution for schools is competition which can be "enabled" by state governments. As far as public sector unions for the government "workforce", I' suggest simply reducing the size of government by a third.
> Before teacher unions the USA was #1 in k12 education, now with teacher unions we are in the bottom third amongst first world nations.<
Teacher unions certainly played a roll in that, but it was a small roll. Teacher unions protect teachers who should be fired. It can be argued that it’s the union’s job to protect their members. Nevertheless, bad teachers stay on who should be gone.
The main problem is the total collapse in classroom discipline. In the old days chronically disruptive students were dealt with by a tough principal.
Now we have chronically disruptive students even in the honors classes. And teachers are told to deal with them on their own. Well, okay. But you can’t be a policeman and at the same time deliver quality instruction.
And here’s a secondary problem. Schools have gone absolutely insane over scores and graduation rates. Administrators get promotions and bonuses when scores improve. So scores become everything. Actual education becomes almost a side point.
In my school district, the district programmed teacher computers to automatically change every student grade less than 50% to 50%. How crazy is that? So if a kid only got one question right on a ten-question quiz, I’d enter 10% for his score. Presto! That 10% magically became 50%.
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