But 93% of them know Bush is Hitler and 87% know that Scott Walker is on a mission to destroy the planet...
More Obamabots in the assembly line.
In our school, you don’t learn about the American Revolution until fifth grade, but then you learn it in great detail. So, I’ll ask my fourth grader what he knows about the Declaration of Independence, but won’t be surprised if he can’t say much yet.
A good definition of “null set” is the contents of an “education” degree.
Thanks, education unions, you’re living down to your reputations.
Ths is the real cost of shrinking class sizes throughout the US. Marginal teachers who normally would not be hired are now sought out because of the need for teachers in school districts that keep the class size down around 20 to 22 children.
When I went to school the average class size was about thirty five or so. I have a far better education than the children being moved through the system these days.
A better title for this post might be “There is something wrong with our schools”.
Because I must tell you that teachers are usually not the ones to blame. That would be like blaming the beat cops when crime rises in a city.
Let me give you a couple of examples. In my school district, the big shots at the top decided to eliminate Civics courses in favor of international diversity classes.
So now instead of learning American Civics (the three branches of government and all that), students learn about societies in Peru and Indonesia. Our history teachers were up in arms about this, but that didn’t matter.
Second example. The big shots decided to allow students to erase low grades by doing a project. So you could fail every test yet pass the course by making a poster.
That increased the district’s passing rate and made the big shots look good. Again, it enraged the teachers, but that didn’t matter.
Sure, there are bad teachers. In my experience, maybe 5%, like in any other profession. But you wouldn’t believe the crazy ideas that come from administration. Then add on the chronic discipline problems.
See what I mean?
Lol, not all of them, my nephew teaches school, but he got very, very, rich before he started to teach.
Education is what we had before educators. Mark Steyn
I was compiling survey responses for a politician in the area. One hot-button issue was tenure for teachers, so there were hundreds of responses from teachers. Oh, dear... the majority were borderline illiterate. And they were screaming the loudest about how wonderful they are, how they “deserve” tenure, higher salaries, etc. Obviously, they don’t even know how stupid they are.
And then there were responses from people who are personally well acquainted with teachers. They relayed what teachers had told them about why they had gone into teaching. Summers off. Not “really” work. Guaranteed salaries forever with tenure. Etc.
I found it highly amusing and indicative of the leftist nature of today’s educrats that some of them were saying since the NCLB act, they didn’t have time to teach history. History is among the top three things that should be taught to students. No knowledge of their pasts means students have no idea how to think of the future. A deliberate ploy by lib educrats.
I told two California teachers aroub the IMF guy raping that hotel maid, and that he didn’t get diplomatic immunity because he wasn’t here on official business. They had never heard of Diplomatic Immunity!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unreal! One of them teaches Gifted & Talented 5th graders in San Diego!
“The overall lackluster performance is certain to revive the debate about whether history and other subjects, such as science and art, are being pushed out of the curriculum because of the focus on math and reading demanded under the No Child Left Behind federal education law. The federal law mandates that students be tested in math and reading.”
I suspect that the main problem is spending time on crap like self esteem, anti-bullying tactics, and a totally watered down history curriculum. For example dedicating an entire chapter to MLK and one paragraph to George Washington or summing up WWII as “The U.S. nuked the japanese. Japanese children made peace cranes and died from radiation poisoning.”
1) Within 40 years (FOURTY!!!) when was the American Civil War?
2) Name the three "Axis Powers" of WWII
3)What is the significance of June 6th, 1944?
Then I watch the complete BLANK STARES when they try to answer the questions. They can't do it. Most of the athletes can't even get ONE of the questions. These are NOT idiots! These are kids with 3.0-4.0GPS's. Invariably they will say "I never liked history anyway." Hmmmm
We need more private schools that are accessible to middle/low income families. There are schools that cater to ‘the arts’. We need schools that cater to freedom, character, and Christian values.
I sincerely hope the sample questions weren’t some of the more difficult ones. Several of them required only fairly straightforward logic.
Well the kids are being taught by union workers, what do you expect?
Gee. The answer's sort of contained in the question, isn't it. Methinks students' analytical skills are as weak as their knowledge of history.
On the bright side, though, they all know how to recycle and put on a condom!
I’m sure they all know what ‘earth day’ is for - and what ‘global warming’ is all about... and a fair portion see our children as residents of their personal whore house...(free for the taking)...