An Act of War-“A Nation At Risk” sounded alarms over 40 years ago, but we keep hitting the snooze button.

Frontpagemagazine ^ | February 9, 2024 | Larry Sand

[nopardons]

BTTT

[bigfootbob]

The unions have long outlived their worth. The unions are counterproductive to the education of our children. An undeniable fact of life.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might have viewed it as an act of war.”

Agree with the vocabulary. It has actually been an "act of war," as the corrupt, morally bankrupt American Left has been working daily for decades to "to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today." An uncivil war.

The vocabulary is accurate and apt.

[WKUHilltopper]

But just tolerate it anyway...

[Alberta's Child]

The author has it all wrong. We didn’t just “keep hitting the snooze button.”

The 1983 report he cites barely caused a ripple outside a small corner of the political and academic worlds. The uncomfortable truth is that America is filled with parents who simply don’t give a sh!t about the education of their children. And it shows.

[yldstrk]

Some parents want better for their children than they had or got. Some parents don’t. A lot of parents are lazy.

[Chengdu54]

Studies show that about 60% of the variation in student test scores is due to family background. Also, there’s no solid evidence that formal teacher preparation programs have any significant influence on student results. An “iron triangle” of government, unions, and colleges of education seek to create the impression that good teaching results from intensifying the field’s professional qualifications. Yet centuries of common sense suggest this is not true.

[Candor7]

Education is not, never was, and will not be indoctrination.

If it is indoctrination, we no longer have a democratic Republic, we will have become Zimbabwe under Mugabe.

And we will likely have a civil war.

[unread]

But, but I thought all those highly educated demonrats were smart, at the top of the food chain. And all us grease monkeys with dirty hands were just waste of space, useless eaters and all that.. (?)

I'm I allowed to use the term "monkey"...?

[Lurker]

“The uncomfortable truth is that America is filled with parents who simply don’t give a sh!t about the education of their children. And it shows.”

Almost no parents bother to run for School Board let alone actually show up at meetings. So Union goons and “educators” end up running things.

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[AndyJackson]

we will have become Zimbabwe under Mugabe.

I think we are pretty far along already.

[sjmjax]

I’ve mentioned before that I have family members ( pro-America conservative ones) in public education.

Yes, it’s horrible and is going to have serious repercussions in the future. Even good teachers are highly restrained in what they can accomplish within the system constraints. The books, the course curriculum, social promotion regardless of grades or skills, the lack of discipline, combative or disinterested parents, and administrative control (or complete lack there of).

One disastrous policy in vogue is “ every student is general ed”. Students that should be in advanced placement are mixed into mediocre general education classes with students that can’t tie their shoelaces. No one prospers.

Yes, it’s deliberate. And as the article points out, been going downhill for a long time.

[odawg]

“If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might have viewed it as an act of war.”

“Immigration policy” could be substituted for “educational performance” along with a dozen or more other Biden policy initiatives.

And come to think of it, Mexico is the country imposing our immigration policy and it is in fact an act of war.

[SunkenCiv]

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[ProgressingAmerica]

The sad thing is, that image at the beginning with the yellow background had to be photoshopped from images of disparate events were like six people showed up. This image:

These are real signs that people who do actually care did create. The problem is, outside of six or ten people the average person cannot be bothered to stand up for their own children. This is something that is fundamental to nature. Tigers show up for their cubs and defend them. Seals show up for their pups. But not humans - not in the face of the education machine. Nobody will show up. Our situation is way more dire than the article suggests.

If more people took this seriously, we would have images of seas of people rivaling the seas of people who showed up for the Tea Parties or who show up annually for the March for Life. What the hell is wrong with people who sit at home and just complain? - on this of all things.

Nothing changes because parents are not actually demanding it, not in large enough numbers to matter. I just ask for simple proof. If there were large enough numbers, we would have the photographs to prove it. Millions of people out there holding signs. These photos don't exist, it isn't happening.

There aren't photographs to prove it. That's why this article couldn't use one of such photographs - you can't use something that doesn't exist. The photograph also highlights what's wrong with the article. There's no paragraph highlighting the failure of the parents.

The photoshopped photograph can't help but highlight the failure of the parents themselves. It's worth saying twice. We can point to the Teacher Unions all we want, the wokesters, or anything else. Sure, those are all very real and very tangible threats.

The biggest threat is simple apathy. Human parents will not defend their own offspring as nature demands. So the predators (seeking to indoctrinate) keep being successful in obtaining their prey.

It's the parents. They are the problem. It requires showing up and that requirement is not being met.

[Candor7]

In Mugabe land ( Zimbabwe), all white people had their farms confiscated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/zimbabwe-seized-white-farmers-land-now-some-are-being-invited-back/2015/09/14/456f66d6-45d2-11e5-9f53-d1e3ddfd0cda_story.html