Posted on 02/26/2020 9:35:22 AM PST by Kaslin
Donald Trump was also in the construction business and has made some statements that allude to the fact politicians are shakedown artists just like the Mafia and seem to work hand in hand with them. He learned about the “swamp” by personal experience.
I’m happy to see that I am not alone in drawing this conclusion. It is so obvious that the “45 KGB Talking Points” were executed flawlessly.
Our Education System Fosters American Self-Loathing
Spectator ^ | 11-12-19 | Ziva Dahl Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 5:36:27 PM by DeweyCA
The American Federation of Teachers, in its most recent journal, illustrates how postmodern ideology also dominates K-12 education. The issue paints America as under siege by the white supremacist power structure and urges its 1.6 million members to counter the pervasive “hostility and discrimination of people because of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation/identity, immigrant … or disability status” by being activists in the classroom. Teachers should defy our “racist country” by promoting victimized racial and ethnic groups and focus on the social inequities pervasive in America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3793469/posts
DoED Investigation Finds That U.S. Universities Have Taken $1.3 Billion From Russia, China, Qatar
Big League Politics ^ | 12/14/19 | Shane Trejo
Posted on 12/15/2019, 6:37:39 AM by grimalkin
The Department of Education (DoED) is conducting an investigation into foreign governments funding U.S. universities, and they have found that governments such as Russia, China and Qatar have given them a staggering $1.3 billion.
The universities under review include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Texas A&M, Cornell, the University of Maryland, Georgetown, and Rutgers. Acting general counsel Reed Rubinstein called the initial findings very “disturbing” in a letter to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, the Education Department.
> Some of the new curriculums are a script to be followed day by day word for word. <
I can vouch for that. When I taught physics, at the start of the school year I was given a big binder. It was as you said. Day 15: “Hold up a pulley. Say blah blah blah. Then write on the board blah blah blah.”
Deviate from the script even once and you’ll get a letter of reprimand. A second time and you’ll be called in for a conference. A third time is a firing offense.
It doesn’t matter if the script excludes things you know will work, or includes things that you know won’t work. You must follow the script exactly.
My advantage was that none of the people who observed me knew anything about physics. So I was usually able to teach as I knew best. I only gotten written up once.
only teachers that have been taught by other teachers are allowed to teach ...
The teachers are not the ones who thought of this, nor do they prefer to do it. They are forced to do so by county and state curriculum standards and policies. Elevating the slower students with such techniques improves the reporting statistics which facilitate advancement for administrators.
If you think schools in Louisiana teach to the same level as those in Massachusetts, guess again. It is absolutely necessary to establish standards; and, that happens to be one of the purposes of government enumerated in the Constitution.
I taught Embedded Computing for three years under a permit. There were no external standards for my class, so I taught “deep and hard” as I pleased. Many students told me that my class was their favorite in all of high school.
I dont trust School Choice at all...it’s another scheme. The students will still get Communist Core.
Find a Classical Learning school.
The simple FACT of the matter is that the Federal Government has NO LEGITIMATE purpose at all when it comes to the education of OUR children. The Department of Education needs to be shut down and disbanded altogether.
This is why Houston will not take retired engineers and scientists as teachers. HISD will only take graduates of “colleges of education “ and nothing more. Teachers are to blindly follow the script with no exceptions. Their attitude is that the best teachers of math and science, the people who have actually researched and applied it (chemical engineers in industry, aerospace with NASA, world class medical center) are stupid and know nothing. Those that parrot the script know everything.
> TEACHER’s Unions <
You are misdirecting your fire. Teachers unions have literally nothing to do with the curriculum. They have no input at all. Zero.
The real culprits are on the school boards. They are the ones who hire the leftist consultants. They are the ones who approve the courses of study.
I'd agree. Unions are the biggest threat to a good education. Communist thinking ruins everything it touches.
Once again; this is why we can't have nice things.
> I taught Embedded Computing for three years under a permit. There were no external standards for my class <
I am jealous. Quick story: Torque is a basic concept in physics. But for some reason, there was no mention of torque in my physics curriculum. So teaching about torque was forbidden.
I taught it anyway. Fortunately I was not observed during that week.
Teacher’s Unions do have NO legitimate function in our schools at all. And yes, the school boards are really no better. They both seem to be quite focused on the indoctrination of our children to Communist propaganda, degenerate “life styles” and the erosion of parental authority.
The unions are in cahoots with the consultants.
> Teacher’s Unions do have NO legitimate function in our schools at all. <
With few exceptions, a group of workers should be able to band together to bargain collectively. That is what freedom is all about. If you and I are teachers, we should be free to go to the school board and say “Give us both a 10% raise or we are both walking.” But...
1. Membership in ANY union should be strictly voluntary. Again, it’s a freedom thing.
2. The employer should be free to say no to any union demand. And the employer should be free to immediately and permanently fire anyone who doesn’t like that.
Unfortunately, politicians have put roadblocks up against that.
> The unions are in cahoots with the consultants. <
In my long experience as a public school teacher I have never seen that. And I watched my union very closely. They needed to be watched because they were so thoroughly corrupt. I could tell you union election stories that would make Stalin blush.
The consultants were in cahoots with the local leftist universities. Some fool at a university would write some dumb paper, and then all of a sudden we were forced to teach based on that paper.
There is a MAJOR disconnect between the administrators of public education and the real world. I have tried very hard to get people to address the actual causes of educational failures; but, they are content blaming the teachers and the teachers' unions. Until voters understand the actual destructive influences, public education will never recover.
Incorrect, and glaringly so! State and Federal curriculum and pedagogy designers, usually under the influence of those in university education departments, are the actual culprits. Change your aim, and perhaps something can actually be done about our education crisis.
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