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I can’t argue with that. It’s plain, simple and brief.
“ Well, if you are not taught “addition, subtraction and multiplication”, you won’t have the ability to see how over-taxed you are being by your government.”
I have long thought that part of the reason our mostly innumerate politicians want to keep Americans also innumerate is so that they can fool taxpayers about their financial scams.
Many decades ago we learned about percentages in middle school. Now there is a rush to get kids into algebra when they do not even know their math facts. It is much more important to know that 50% is different from 0.5% than it is that 2X plus 3X equals 5X.
I have worked in the school system although not as a teacher. I was doing direct technical support for classroom teachers in actual classrooms and during actual classes from kindergarten through 12th grade. They all have computers and printers and doc cams and projectors and TV streaming devices that have to be supported. They need a lot of support.
I have seen teachers who spend almost half of the class time telling kids to shhh. Literally going shhh for twice or more each minute for 50 minutes. I am not kidding or exaggerating. I could not wait to get out of those classrooms. You think those kids were learning anything? And it wasn’t like I only visited those classrooms once. I would be in them multiple times in the school year and it was the same every time.
Most people don’t know the teaching methods used in the public schools. The main one is group learning (cooperative learning); they put the students in groups of four, (and if they can get four different enthnicities in one group it is utopia achieved), and the little students teach each other, grade one through high school. Three of the four will invariably ride on the efforts of the most intelligent one.
As I once read in USA Today, surprisingly enough, it was admitted that this method was chosen to hide the fact that some groups are smarter than others.
Our chickens have come home to roost on the perch of a crippled generation and the Department of Education is fine with that.
No child left behind. Teachers have no way to discipline unruly children in the classroom. Homework is seldom if ever assigned. I think summer school has also gone bye bye.
Agree, and it’s called Common Core Math, which is mindboggling stupid. No memorization of facts, instead you get drawings of boxes and estimations. As a grandmother, the dumbing down of American children is being done on purpose by evil people.
I think they were ramping up the Covid crisis before they released the actual bug. It was emblematic of Chinese industry that they couldn’t create a serious enough biological weapon, even with the active participation of American scientists. I believe that it could have been a lot worse for mortality if they were better at innovating.
Zoom was already being used on teacher computers before Covid. I saw it on the computers before Covid even got started. I actually thought it was malware the first time I saw it before I found out what it was for. Soon after, we were told that we were in a pandemic.
I agree about the administrators. However you leave out the school boards from blame. We are directly responsible for those cretins being elected! The Educrat establishment is clever. They lobby so school board elections are staged at odd election intervals, not during election years or even midterms. The claim is this is necessary to prevent partisanship. The real reason is by doing it at odd times is to keep turn out low. This way they have better means to influence who gets elected. Additionally they always run a “vetted by their union” set of candidates. Anyone outside that little happy coven is squeezed out.
We need to be serious and take charge of these school board elections! My rule of thumb:
1. Any candidate endorsed by the teacher’s union or any union vote against.
2. Any ex-teacher or claims an education degree background vote against!
Pressure the state legislators to make school board elections part of the normal election cycle.
Best of luck to her… hopefully she attends a crappy high school and is applying to a major where girls are underrepresented, otherwise she will likely not get accepted to her UCs of choice.
You make a good point about school boards. They have the real power.
In my long experience as a teacher, I found most school board members to be okay people. Many were working class folks. But they tend to hire supervisors and consultants who are crazy woke.
These wokesters use the “latest research” to promise the moon. Their research is garbage, as is all educational research.
But the school board falls for it. Over and over again.
The reason this is done is to flatten educational outcomes.
No one is allowed to perform better then anyone else unless its sports! Modern education ideology must not allow any intellectual based outcomes that might hint at performance differences in demographics unless its sports. It also can’t allow any indication of behavior differences either unless its sports. It can’t enforce school behavior unless its sports!
Agree!
On my mother’s side my grandfather and several great uncles were teachers and later school administrators. All products of the old Normal School system. Something happened to education training went it “professionalized” itself by going from normal school to education department\college. I am not against public education it worked at one time! I my brother and my old hometown friends are proof that it once worked.
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“ went to” = “when it”
The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com › ideas › 2025 › 11 › math-decline-ucsd › 684973 American Kids Can't Do Math Anymore - The Atlantic Nov 19, 2025They argued that the tests worsened racial divides and unfairly privileged wealthy students. But SAT and ACT scores are the most reliable predictors of a student's math ability, the report found.
National Education Association https://www.nea.org › nea-today › all-news-articles › racist-beginnings-standardized-testing The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing - NEA Since their inception a century ago, standardized tests have been instruments of racism and a biased system.
Forbes https://www.forbes.com › sites › kimelsesser › 2019 › 12 › 11 › lawsuit-claims-sat-and-act-are-biased-heres-what-research-says Lawsuit Claims SAT And ACT Are Biased ifluential anti-racist activists such as Ibrahim Kendi, who declared, "Standardized tests have become the most effective weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black and Brown ...
New York Times https://www.nytimes.com › 2024 › 03 › 14 › opinion › sat-college-admissions-antiracism.html Opinion | Why the SAT Isn't Racist
“That’s one in eight incoming freshmen who are unable to meet basic high school math standards...”
So 25% can’t do basic HS math. Morons!
Liddy complained about whole language and calculators 30 years ago on his radio show.
I have seen the corruption of schools by the teachers union, and my college history senior thesis was about the corruption of unions.
Any reason they want the same folks sticking with unions?
I don’t understand why people wait.
Instead of get up and acting.
We waited under Ford. We waited under Reagan. We waited under both Bushs. And now we’re waiting again under Trump.
The only time people didn’t wait was under Obama.
The schools stopped teaching civics and it seems like it was Conservatives who were hardest hit. Why does everybody sit around and wait?!?!?
Lost in the focus on remedial math at R1 universities (and the failing K-12 schools that pushed these students through) is that the UC system has purposely chosen this path, while rejecting many highly qualified applicants. There are more applicants than ever to UCs that have completed multiple college-level math courses (AP Calc BC, multivariable calculus, linear algebra, AP statistics)… they are routinely rejected from most UCs because they: 1) apply to impacted majors (e.g., CompSci or engineering), 2) graduate from high-achieving schools just outside the top 9% of graduating class (one or two Bs is all it takes in many), 3) their 1500+ SAT and 5s on AP exams are not considered in admissions, and 4) the essay prompts are focused on hardships and diversity (how does the son of a white or Asian tech worker demonstrate resilience when they’ve faced no real hardships?). The UCs see these kids as privileged and a dime a dozen (and they are not wrong when looking at only wealthy suburban schools). That does not however mean they are unqualified for UCs and unlikely to thrive in a challenging curriculum (many have already completed the math requirements for an undergrad degree after all). Holistic admissions were designed for this outcome… when standardized tests stood in the way, they were done away with as well. This is an intentional choice by the UC Regents to accept unprepared students with the hopes that some will thrive, but an understanding that many will fall flat. They see the well-prepared students that were rejected as acceptable collateral damage for the greater good.
Your post provides the data for what the goal of modern K12 education is supposed to do. Eliminate any outcomes that show measurable differences in the demographics. To prevent that remove testing, do things in groups so individual performance is averaged in with others so no one stands out particularly no ethnic group except in sports.
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