Because it’s all about protecting the little darlings self esteem.
Thirty years ago Christian schools and other private schools were using phonetics...
My children learnt phonetics in their Christian school...
But the public schools refused to use them then...
New book:
“Why Jamal Can’t Read”
A friend of mine handed me an email this past Sunday. It was about a university professor that wanted to teach his class about socialism.
After the exam, the professor said, that in the name of socialism, he was equalzing the grades to the average score for the entire class, rather than having each individual getting their own score. Thus those who got high grades would be lowered to the average and those who failed or got low scores would be raised to the class average.
The next exam he did the same thing and the class average fell drastically. It appeared that the previous high achievers were not motivated to do well and the under achievers lost what little motivation they previously had. Bottom line, on the second exam, everyone failed.
This is the problem with wealth re-distribution. I asked one of my clients, an MD, what she would do if the tax rates went over 50% on her top layer of income, explaining that they were much higher than this prior to Reagan’s tax cuts which stimulated the ecomonomy. She said she would retire or at least work much less. Thus, I explained is the problem with O’bummer’s health care proposals. Tax the high incomes (including MDs) and you will create an MD shortage, thus driving up the individual costs and decreasing availability. (She regrets voting for O’bummer!)
I'd forgotten about that in the flurry of all he's done to dismantle this country.
Schools don’t fail. Students do. Quit trying to fix schools and address the real problem.
Hmm. So is it only blacks that are effected by the 'liberal welfare system'?
And things like that commission are why I’m going to do whatever I can to get my daughter into Welham Girls’ school in India. Indian schools don’t subscribe to this kind of junk social science. The kids there are pushed hard, and they end up successful. There’s no class in self-esteem or other ridiculous non-academic subjects. They’re too busy studying, at grade-school age, what American students nowadays don’t get to until freshman year in college, like trigonometry, calculus, advanced composition, organic chemistry, physics, etc etc.
Parents don’t encourage their kids enough and see over their school work, IMO.
My brother and I both went to public schools all our lives, but we had parents who encouraged us. When we did not do well at something, they took the initiative to tells us why and help us understand it. They knew when we were slacking and when we just didn’t understand something. Punishments were distributed accordingly. If we slacked, we lost privledges. If we just didn’t get it, they sat down with us until we did. My parents had just as much hand in my education as the school did.
Break down in families is why kids don’t excel, imo.
One of the best articles I have read in the past year. A Phyllis is a female Tom Sowell in many ways.
1. Start with how they are, not how you would wish it to be. Maybe the class of kids with no fathers could motivate and encourage each other. They could form study groups, and have some healthy rivalry to try to keep up with or move ahead of each other. They do it on the basketball court, in a sense. They could also do it academically. At my kids’ school, the motivated kids are a good peer influence on each other, although I admit that it is not as strong an influence as their motivated parents.
2. Young men need to start to have some pride in their future as fathers, as respectable men, and make decisions about sex, marriage and parenthood accordingly. They need to pick women who, like them, have accepted “the mission” of making the raising of their family the main goal of their lives. There was a book awhile back about “the mission”. It seems that the author established that it wasn’t whether you were rich or poor that made a difference in your kids. It was whether the parents were dedicated to “the mission.”
Why don’t kids do well in school? The Education Trifecta - the federal dept of ed, teachers’ unions, and poor quality teachers.
John McWhorter was saying this 15 years ago.