Fourth Grade Teacher Details How Schools Push Ban History And Leftist Agendas

The Federalist ^ | August 1, 2020 | Paulina Enk

[Lizavetta]

Not caring about who gets elected to your local schools board is what has led to this. People say, I don't have kids, what do I care. Or, my kids have grown and gone, what do I care.

Look at what we're witnessing around the country as a result of what is taught, and not taught, in the schools.

Former children become present adults with all the sh*t that's been drilled into them year after year in the schools being played out on the streets and in the voting booth.

[hanamizu]

For those who don’t know, there is basically only one textbook company left—Pearson. So there are far fewer choices for a text than there was when I began teaching, a while back.

There was, maybe 15 years ago, a move to ‘free’ the class from the textbook and to use teacher-created resources, and today, there is now a huge move to have kids watch stuff from the internet. Some of it is quite good, but it’s not like kids are being starved of screen time.

Half of my work in teaching history was to get the kids to read the d**n book. I had kids for three years and by the end of 8th grade I had maybe 2/3rds of them actually reading the text. Their high school teachers were amazed to have kids actually read.

And with No Child Left Behind and Common Core, there is a definite trend away from history as a subject. My last few years I was told that my 1st priority as a history teacher was to support the learning of reading and math—the subjects that counted since they were the state’s tests. Since I had tenure, was considered pretty good at my job, and was the only history teacher, I was pretty much free to ignore what I was told.

It seems to me, that the more ‘improvements’ that are made to the curriculum and to the preferred methods of teaching, the poorer the results have become. My parents got a better education K-12 in the 20s and 30s than I did in 50s and 60s. And my education was much better than what kids get now.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Schools are nothing more than left wing propaganda buildings where the “teachers” teach kids to hate America, hate Capitalism, and hate their own race..every single thing my 5 yr old nephew is being taught online right now I monitor, he was supposed to start LAUSD in the fall but they are closed, in a way its a good thing..I dont want him taught by some commie prick to hate our country

[Mariner]

Many young teachers are not able to concede that many of their students, and depending on the school, most of their students are just dumb.

And no matter the curriculum they’ll never learn much of anything.

Chalking this up to another teacher with a better idea on how to teach those who can’t learn anything abstract. Or retain facts.

[ronnie raygun]

Just wait......When school eventually resumes the BLM agenda will be instituted. Your white privileged children will be assaulted daily by blacks and other ethnic groups just because they are white and no one will stop them. The administration will be on board. Get ready for your children to be bruised and battered daily, to be last in line for anything, sit in the back of the class, be ignored by teachers and administrators and have no one to protect them from the animals that will prey on them. And dont ever think you can open your mouth with a different view you will be suspended. The best of this anarchy is yet to come. The students parents will be assaulting each other because of it, its gonna be a free for all. I see nothing good coming out of any of this

[Graybeard58]

we’ll take that and say, ‘This is why no one should never use oil or gas.’

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Did she really say that?

[elpadre]

Don’t local school boards review text books any longer??

[SecAmndmt]

“Not caring about who gets elected to your local schools board is what has led to this. People say, I don’t have kids, what do I care. Or, my kids have grown and gone, what do I care.”

If one thinks it is worthwhile spending 1 millisecond trying to change government schools, I am not sure exactly how bad it has to get before conservatives and Christians get their collective heads out of their rear ends and make an exodus from that system.

Government has NO role to play in educating children, and if one believes otherwise, on is partially culpable for the destruction of the Republic.

[Jvette]

I was fortunate to be home with my kids all the way through high school. I was very involved with their schooling and what was being pushed on them by the teachers, administrators and councilors.

Admittedly it’s much worse now than it was then, but teachers know that parents, whether single parent or two parent/two income, don’t have the time or energy to be as vigilant as I was able to be.

We gave up a lot of stuff for me to stay home, but in the end I was glad to sacrifice some creature comforts rather than sacrifice my kids’ education.

I pray that this is an opportunity for parents to become more aware and maybe we can make some changes if enough of them let their dissatisfaction with the curriculum be known.

[Persevero]

Well a lot of those schools are closed this fall so ha.

As for those FReepers who have kids/grands in public school you can still teach them on Saturdays or after school. Teach them history and capitalism and etc. nothing stopping you.

[Don Corleone]

Like 17 year locusts these people have been waiting to spring their hatred of America. Is anyone surprised as to how many of them there are and how dedicated?

[LeoTDB69]

Sickening. Adopting the teaching techniques of Cuba.

We’ve heard the stories, close your eyes put your heads down and pray to God for candy....no candy

Now do the same but pray to Castro...everyone sees candy when they open their eyes.

[VeniVidiVici]

Recently, I spoke with a fourth-grade teacher from the midwest, who shared her experience witnessing the shifting of curriculum from history and science towards overt political indoctrination, all to the detriment of students’ learning. To protect this person’s privacy, she will remain nameless.

The MAIN reason why teacher unions do not want to participate in on-line learning. They are very afraid parents will actually see what they are teaching.

[Bigg Red]

Yeah, I’m hoping the double negative was just a typo.

[SkyDancer]

Home schooling was great. I didn't have to go through this nonsense:

[Freee-dame]

Obama paid (incentivized? bribed?) school systems millions to adopt Common Core through its “Race to the Top” program. Once Common Core was adopted, all materials had to be bought through Pearson. It would be interesting to see which politically involved people are making money off of Pearson.

[hanamizu]

“It would be interesting to see which politically involved people are making money off of Pearson.”

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Also interesting to see who is making the money off of the flood of technology into the schools. At the rural school I taught at/subbed at it seems like new computers show up every year. Close to one per student. No business replaces computers like schools do. The money apparently comes from ‘grants’.

Yet, with all the cool toys, the results keep getting worse.

[wjcsux]

Later.

[GnuThere]

Holy smokes.