Posted on 08/10/2019 3:54:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
It is a dismal picture. In his 1993 book Inside American Education: The Decline, the Deception, the Dogmas, Thomas Sowell lamented that "when nearly one-third of American 17-year-olds do not know that Abraham Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation, when nearly half do not know who Josef Stalin was, and when about 30 percent could not locate Britain on a map of Europe, then it is clear that American educational deficiencies extend far beyond mathematics." Yet a quarter of a century later, the 17-year-olds in my classrooms do not even know what the Emancipation Proclamation is, let alone who authored it!
In 1998, Heather Mac Donald noted that report cards and objective tests were traded in for "overheated rhetoric about fighting institutional racism and [the redistribution of] power."
In his 2010 book Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality, Theodore Dalrymple aimed his pen at Great Britain, where "educational theory, subsequently provided with a patina of science by committed researchers, is full of absurdities that would be delightfully laughable had they not been taken seriously and used as the basis of educational policy to impoverish millions of lives."
Despising routine and rote ... [the] educational theorists came up with the idea that children would learn to read better if they discovered how to do so for themselves. This is only slightly more sensible than sitting a child under an apple in the hope that it will arrive at the theory of gravity.
Thus, "romantic educational theory" is deliberately used to dummy down students, make school unbearable, and prepare these students to become useful idiots of a leftist society. This was also documented by Dan Gagliasso in 2012.
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Remember Bill Bennett’s 1983 report, ‘’A Nation at Risk.’’ No, nothing ever changes with liberals.
The objectives of today’s education have changed. Kids just have a different set of knowledge skills. When I was a kid I had no idea how to put a condom on a cucumber.
Public schools have only become worse since Carter created the Department of Education...
Close it down, and let education revert back to the states.
Also, there is no reason Huntsville, AL should still be under a desegregation order...
And I only knew of 2 of the 57 genders.
Who needs schools when ya got google and spel checker?
Even Moynihan gave a speech warning about the increase in single mothers.
When you have to navigate the permutations and combinations of 57 genders as a teenager you don’t have the spare neurons for rational thought.
Republicans need to be making a big issue of this — because the cure is not more money. The issue will appeal to swing voters.
I love that. Romantic education Theory. I’ve been in plenty of those meetings!
When I was born it became my mother’s mission in life to give me a proper education, so I was homeschooled.
In Pennsylvania, homeschooling is subject to very restrictive and oppressive laws, in my opinion more so than the gun laws. Who may teach, what must be taught, the medical requirements, the regular monitoring by a bureaucrat, mandatory reporting and testing on a regular basis.
Many people my age (20’s) can’t tell time, make change, or read cursive, yet they have college diplomas.
I often hear older people say “We’ll never give up our guns.” Well, they gave up their children’s minds readily enough.
I hate printing I’d rather prefer cursive writing. There are some people that their printing is nice. Mine isn’t. My mother had a beautiful cursive hand hand writing, better than mine. Although mine was nice too, especially when I used a pen that you had to fill with real ink. It’s a shame that schools stopped teaching cursive writing. They should go back to it.
None of that matters.
Writing is produced by a keyboard
Many people my age can’t tell time, make change, or read cursive, yet they have college diplomas.
Sure sounds like many members of congress.
” They should go back to it.”
Say, isn’t our U.S. Constitution written in cursive?
We quickly learned to never ask a teacher how to spell anything. We would get told to look it up in the dictionary. How can you look it up if you don’t know how to spell it???
Never heard of that Stalin guy but yo, yo Lincoln was that dude with the rad beard. What’s that Immanciparticipation thing? I don’t like books so haven’t read it. Did they make it into a movie?
Unfortunately, however, the truth does NOT appeal to swing voters.
A huge part of the problem is that very few conservatives want to teach in public schools. Now I’ll wait for someone to whine that “liberals won’t LET us.” (They talk all tough about never giving up guns, but if they can be chased out of education classes that easily, they’ll hand over the guns without much of a struggle.)
Concerning Baltimore schools, in 2017, Armstrong Williams explained that “individuals and firms that service the Baltimore school system are making off with literally billions of taxpayer dollars with nothing to show for it... But in the tortured logic of Baltimore’s political bureaucracy, failure is incentivized. It is at best a massive fraud committed against students who are cheated out of a future, and taxpayers whose hard-earned money is being wasted.” According to Williams, much of the spending “goes toward the salaries and benefits of far greater numbers of bureaucrats than a school system of that size actually requires.” Political patronage rules the day.
People want to talk about “reparations” - but the reparations slogan of the Reconstruction era was “forty acres and a mule.” Which would put you in position to be a subsistence farmer, more or less. That was their vision of opportunity.Today’s vision of opportunity is an education. But where the rubber meets the road, today’s vision of opportunity is socially unacceptable. to the descendants of the people who had an actual grievance against living people.
Certainly to Obama, based on his determination to punish white students for things black students did. Which is what the quotas his administration amounted to . . .
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