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.
“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.’
Actually, there’s no great mystery here. The fact is that kids learn today because of parents that have the means to have them taught, OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOOLS (by any of a number of means). The kids that are at the mercy of the schools, namely lower income types are simply wrecked for life.
And yes, it is malice and forethought. Bilingual education is probably the best example - it wound up being Spanish Language instruction, and the kids couldn’t function in what was an English language country. It was no secret, it was OBVIOUS as hell. Parents understood this and PROTESTED - and were to go to hell by the schools. The parents wanted their kids to learn English.
The degree of outright EVIL that we’re dealing with, I think, is simply too hard for most conservative (and moderates, for that matter) to comprehend - and that is why they continue to get away with it. I could go on about Tony Snow and Dr. Laura both thinking that Rush was blowing hot air when he went after education - and then how those two found out that Rush was dead-on as their kids were getting abused by the schools. But they refused to even believe Rush, even with his 99.7% (or whatever) accuracy.