Posted on 03/30/2016 2:45:04 PM PDT by detective
What does it say when in two days a teacher exhausts the ink in his red pen? Since a nation cannot be “ignorant and free," as Thomas Jefferson put it, it perhaps means we face a threat graver than the Red Menace.
Apathetic or even hostile students, dumbed-down tests, often incompetent and ideologically driven teachers, Cracker Jack-box degrees, morally toxic curricula, revisionist history, the new math — education has collapsed in America. And one of the sincere educators, wandering amidst the rubble, recently provided a window into this academic apocalypse.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
Gee, America’s students are victims of educational malpractice? That’s just what the public educational system designed by Horace Mann and John Dewey wanted so they could mold and shape their new socialist men and women. Not working as you expected, eh? Well, that never stopped the American Left and it;s failed policies. We just have to keep trying the same old failed systems in the hope of a different result this time. This is the definition of insanity, but the Left will not hear it.
I hear they’re going to Two Brothers too. Their burgers are good there. Just don’t ask me the effect it will have on their waistline.
Seriously - I can never remember effect/affect! I think I did it correctly. But probably not :(
Funny though - my teenage kids could tell me. They are pretty good at that stuff. Take after their mom!
Gosh I feel sorry for teachers.
They get paid to teach.
They don’t get paid to sit at a desk.
If the kids lack skills, then teach them.
Education isn’t a giving a grade.
Education is teaching the skills.
If you don’t want to teach, well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
We sure have a lot of teachers who are afraid to get their hands dirty.
I watched Idiocracy again last night. Every few years when I rewatch it, it seems less and less bizarre. We’re almost there.
A large part of it is teacher training, which is NOT what it once was and many teachers are almost as stupid and uneducated as the kids they are supposed to teach.
Then there is the descent into the lowest side of humanity, debased culture, and the abrogation of parent/s of their job.
And then comes the fact that education has been flooded by far lefties, since the '70s and their growing power in all aspects, from K through graduate schools.
My daughter was an RA at her university; and, she told me that she had no idea how most of the students got into college. Their grades were awful.
I would modify your comment slightly.
I agree that education for the bulk of students is getting worse. There are worse attitudes towards education, worse acceptance of the need for it, a fractured common culture which dumbs-down what is taught, and worse bureaucracies doing the teaching.
Like other parts of our society though, for a smaller group of motivated kids, with strong families (who, not surprisingly tend to be upper middle class - ala Charles Murray), education is improving and opportunities are immense. For example, our local state university runs a college calculus program for talented high school kids in our city. They accept about 50 middle-school kids from local school districts, and by the age of 16, these kids have completed a 2nd year college calculus level, with courses in analysis, logic, programming. All cost-free for the kids who are accepted. Really top-notch and not available when I was young. Of course, it is all kids from the suburbs, and 40/30/30 White, Asian and indian kids. In 4 years, I saw one black kid (who was an immigrant from Nigeria)
These kids will be the relatively thin layer of productive, technocratic people running our greatly fractured and dumbed-down country in the future.
Those who can do, do.
Those who can’t do, teach.
Those who can’t teach, become politicians.
That too !
Government schooling, look-say reading, all sorts of teaching methods that fail have been introduced deliberately to destroy literacy and numeracy. None of it is accidental. But the real problem is the number of children who are living their lives in complete despair, primarily because they are fatherless.
The main project of our elites is to eliminate monotheism. In the government schools, they drove out Christianity and replaced it with Unitarianism in the 19th century. They drove out Unitarianism in the 20th century, replacing it with atheism. They are now using Muslims to drive Christians and Jews underground. When that process is complete they will turn and slaughter the Muslims.
The Democrats are the main agents of Satanism in American society. Through government schooling and look-say “reading,” and welfare, they have attacked the natural family and the human person from every angle. Currently, they have a no-borders Pope and no-borders bishops on their side, helping them to replace the population of the United States with people who vote 70% for the Satanists. That is 70% pro-abortion, 70% no- borders, 70% socialist.
The very real collapse of education is just a symptom of the war that has been going on in this particular form for about 150 years. A war between atheist/Satanists and Christians.
Those who can’t teach, teach teachers.
QUIZ: Can You Pass an 8th Grade Test from 1912?
http://offbeat.topix.com/quiz/7458/qidx1
Sample Questions:
In which war was the Battle of Brandywine Creek fought?
How many parts of speech are there?
Define them.
Who was the first European to discover the Pacific Ocean by crossing the isthmus of Panama?
Give three duties of the president.
Adjectives have how many degrees of comparison?
July 1, 1971 and October 17, 1979
In my opinion these are the dates that education in this once great nation hit the skids. Along with many other things.
WE now have a electorate that no longer thinks, but feels. This results in elected officials that cater to the lowest denominator , the voter that “feels”. So, if it “feels” right to graduate kids that can not write their name, we do it. If it “feels” right to offer 18 year old kids a college major and degree in ethnic studies, we do it. If it “feels” right to diversify the classroom by requiring the percentage of minority teachers meet or exceed the local population, qualified or not, we do it.
The icing on that cake is the US Department of Education. Thousands and thousands of employees, including a police force with a SWAT team that has never EDUCATED single student.
The result is what we have today. That mind they worried about wasting is not just wasted, but in many cases has reverted back to it’s most tribal primitive form.
community colleges have been set up as remedial centers for high schools. Most don’t require SAT scores, but do require students to sit for reading and math exams created to assess placement.Public High Schools are under pressure to graduate a large percentage of students, particularly those in minority quota groups. The county and local regional community colleges pick up the slack, as there is little push to graduate students because they’re paying per class, many students spend two years catching up. They usually receive no college credit for these classes, but many of the recipients are financial need students who aren’t paying anyway.
This is a very unusual thread for the modern day Free Republic. Most of the responses comprise sentences organized into a recognized paragraph. We are witnesses an increasing rare phenomena. When Freepers cannot compose a rational and coherent response, we have trouble right here in River City. This professor’s complaint is not limited to her classroom, this forum often mimics her examples.
When we turned over our education system to the least skilled among the liberati, we doomed our civilization to the quality of life that existed before a written language.
I figured it was either that or a new arboreal aphorism.
When I went to vote in the primary last month, the high school that I went to had marxist propaganda and posters all over the walls. It was sickening.
Bump....
This is thought process is precisely one of the biggest problems with the way children are presently taught. If anything requires that much repetition, the teacher entirely failed to relay the underlying concept effectually in the first place.
“American education is rapidly getting worse. “
That’s not quite right ... American government-run schools are a disaster, but many alternative forms of education are performing quite well. Home schooling, many private schools, and even charter schools that are managed independently are examples.
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