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Posted on 11/24/2025 7:53:25 AM PST by simpson96
I used to think that teachers were so much smarter than the rest of us. I used to think that principals were even smarter than teachers. But I was wrong. I just got a look at the testimony of an Oregon elementary school principal before a local school board meeting, and it occurred to me that she must have missed most of her history and civics classes during more than 12 years of state school indoctrination.
She lamented seeing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers run operations and arrest people who are wanted on criminal warrants and illegally in the country, and she warned the board that it won't be long before it's rail spurs and ovens time.
"As a child, I was fascinated by World War II and read all of the stories about the holocaust, and we are entering similar territory," Principal Laura Mannon of Echo Shaw Elementary told the Forest Grove School Board, in hopes of passing herself off as an expert. “I felt like I was watching a George Floyd video — George Floyd is my friend."
"What ICE is doing," she passionately told the board, "is like the gestapo of Nazi, Germany." And then she had the temerity to say, "That is not an overstatement."
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If she's saying it out loud, we're sure Principal Mannon has conveyed this point of view to all of her staff and students and infused her schools' curricula with it.
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Oregon Elementary School Principal Compares ICE To George Floyd's Death & The Holocaust
Then this writer was pretty clueless. Spend ten minutes talking to most teachers and principals, and even college professors, and you'll realize that most of them are not particularly bright. They may have extensive knowledge about some subjects, but not intelligence, which is an entirely different thing.
Education majors have among the lowest SAT and GRE scores of any major.
I have two nieces who I absolutely love.
They are both school teachers and are very noticeably not that intelligent.
THEY think they’re smarter.
I’ll bet the ho teaches that THE GREATEST GENERATION were a bunch of Nazis for preventing the Japs and Germans from taking over America. Hey Hey Ho Ho! This old ho needs to go.
Yeah, I personally know a high school teacher (in-law). She is wonderful, kind, and conservative, and I like her very much, but she is definitely not among the more intelligent people I know.
Retired urban high school teacher here. My degree is in chemistry. University Schools of Education should be abolished. And degrees in Education should be abolished.
That whole structure is built on nonsense, nonsense that continually jumps from one fad to another.
So if you want to teach say, math, get a degree in math. Then apprentice under a master math teacher.
Now here’s the really scary part. Almost all of my supervisors had advanced degrees in Education. They knew little, but thought they knew everything.
Excellent! I’m all for your program. We could fix the education mess in a heartbeat.
“nonsense that continually jumps from one fad to another.”
My sister taught middle school and high school math for 45 years. She always got great results from her students and was highly rated. After her students grew into adulthood, many of them would thank her for what she did for them and what they learned.
She has a lot of beefs with the educational establishment, but one of her biggest is the educational fads that flow out of Education Universities. The PhD candidates there need research topics, so they gin up utterly ridiculous new modes of teaching. None of them ever set foot in a classroom or taught kids, but they are “book smart” and know it all. Every couple years a new fad would sweep the state and teachers would have to jettison all their earlier materials developed in the last fad.
My sister learned how to deal with it — just ignore the fads as much as you can and stick with tried and true methods.
Just another crazy commie white woman. The country is full of them.
“THEY think they’re smarter.”
Bingo.
And that THEY know what’s best for everyone - to the point that THEY decide, THEY make the rules.
Ugh...
She is being paid 200K to virtue signal.
> so they gin up utterly ridiculous new modes of teaching <
That’s exactly right! Here’s an example.
Near the end of my teaching career, I was visited by a district supervisor. She told me that we teachers were now supposed to validate every student answer, right or wrong.
I suppose that might work in a Literature class, where you can give an opinion on a poem. But not in science.
No matter. So if a student said C stands for cobalt, I was supposed to accept that wrong answer, and not correct it until the following day. Meanwhile the whole class thinks C stands for cobalt.
I ignored that directive. And fortunately I was able to retire before I got caught.
When the US quit teaching history they forgot: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
She is one of the Left’s well programmed robots doing exactly what she was programmed for.
I also have two nieces that teach in elementary school, and I think they are intelligent. IMO they are products of a mediocre educational system. A few weeks ago, I learned that one niece had never heard of Animal Farm, a novel I read in fifth grade. She teaches fifth grade, and I was flummoxed that she didn’t know of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century.
Our experience as well - A (liberal, racist, PhD-graduate-heading-straight-towards-High School principal position-from-a-elementary school-special-ed-background) VP corrected my wife (21 years as HS and MS Physics, AP Chemistry, Chemistry, and Honors CHemistry experience, a Chem Engineer degree and industrial Chem Eng experience) that “Spelling doesn’t matter”, “They should not have to memorize formulas and chemical symbols”, and “She should let every student print their chemistry formulas anyway they want to”.
That “Every student must be allowed to hand in assignments late - even up to the end of the semester”, “Take tests as many times as they need to pass”.
That this “social worker” corrected her in front of a screaming parent whose child had missed 25 days of class ... but needed to pass so they could “go to college with their friends” made his decisions even worse. (But the child was being disciplined for refusing to wear safety goggles in the bal.)
My sister began noticing 20 years ago that the teaching profession was not attracting the best anymore, new teachers were leaving after only a few years, and the seasoned veteran teachers were all asking “how long before I can retire from this?”
I feel so sorry for your smart, talented and dedicated wife suffering that humiliation. My sister got loads of that, too. But she learned to tune out that crap and focus on the students. Her rewards were seeing the few kids she really got to who had those “Aha!” moments and went on to be very successful. She has been retired about three years now and still misses that personal reward.
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