Two Reasons:
SIGHT WORDS (i.e., Whole Language)
FUZZY MATH
Once we left teaching from the bottom up (i.e., phonics and math without calculators) we were DOOMED. And the people leading the charge knew it - and wanted it that way, so as to take us down a few notches in the world.
My formerly homeschooled daughter is in 8th grade. She is doing well. Her art teacher recently contacted parents to tell them:
I am ......, your student’s art teacher this year. In the last weeks of the quarter your student’s are exploring graffiti in the fine arts. They have chosen a concept (Folk Epigraphy, Art, Tagging) for this project and are developing a piece of work that reflect this. Student may use any material/medium to do this project. Your students have decided to work with spray paint. Because I cannot use spray paint in school your student will be doing this project at home. It will be due on the day of the 19th.
I wanted to touch base with you to let you know this is in fact a project, and they are not buying/asking for spray paint to vandalize something :) If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.
Thank you!
I cannot begin to tell you how disappointed I am at the low expectations ... and waste of time this is.
You forget about “No Child Left Behind”. Even before the passage of that, school districts would get problems if the performance of white students was too much higher than the performance of minority students. Raising performance of minority students is hard. Crippling performance of white students is easier.
Once we left teaching from the bottom up (i.e., phonics and math without calculators) we were DOOMED. And the people leading the charge knew it - and wanted it that way, so as to take us down a few notches in the world.
I agree completely then add on top of that all of the Social Justice BS and its a wonder the kids learn anything useful to real life... like reading, writing and ‘rithmatic.
And don’t get me started on the dumbing down of history. What they do learn is really a disconnected series of ‘facts’ and very little or nothing about the sequence of events and causes that lead up to major events like Wars or the Great Depression. It’s just not sickening in my mind its Criminal with malice of forethought.
Teacher’s Unions! And trying to use schools for social engineering.
Especially after WWII many schools at all levels went crazy and greedy for money particularly for administrative costs and salaries. The trend was exacerbated by the availability of G.I. Bill money by which any non-suited person could go and get a degree to teach. The entire education system has been dumbed down for years where the intent is just to have some piece of paper called a diploma in anything not useful to employers needing those with a real education to do the work needed and paid for..
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