If we returned to the old K-12 system, in a few short decades we would be back to where we are today.
The old system was, and continues to be today, a compulsory-use, single-payer, and socialist-entitlement program.It was a 19th century Progressive idea. Progressives, and later socialists and Marxists, have **ALWAYS** controlled teacher training and curriculum development. The Progs/Socialists/Marxists have always been pushing at the edges of societies moral norms.
Now, I am going to shout, jump up and down, and wave my arms in a warning alarm!
SINGLE-PAYER, SOCIALIST-ENTITLEMENT, COMPULSORY PROGRAMS CAN NOT BE FIXED! THEY MUST BE ABOLISHED!
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS WERE **ALWAYS** A COMPULSORY-USE, SINGLE-PAYER, AND SOCIALIST-ENTITLEMENT. THEY CAN NOT BE FIXED. THEY MUST BE ABOLISHED!
All it took to give the nation Franklin D. Roosevelt with his compulsory, single-payer, and socialist programs was one to three generations of citizens schooled in compulsory, single-payer, and socialist-entitlement schools.
Our parents and grandparents gave us Lyndon B. Johnson and his socialist-entitlement and single-payer programs. They were schooled in compulsory, single-payer, and socialist-entitlement schools.
Finally, nearly every teacher in this nation ( pre-K through college and graduate school) was trained by Marxists in Marxist-run colleges and universities. Certainly few of these teachers are full-blown communists but their Marxist training does bleed through into their classrooms.
Bump your excellent post.
The problem is, wintertime, that graduates of the American public school have been made creatures of the State that created the system, and rarely have retained the capacity for critical thought.
The modern state creates its own people, as Brecht mockingly advised the East German regime back in ‘53.
Yes, this kid’s problem started well before getting to UC:
“Maybe he didn’t have to be the straight-A kid he’d been in high school anymore...”
It’s obvious he has no critical thinking skills. He is another product of ‘social promotion’. He should have been held back until he could show he could read & write in elementary school.