Posted on 12/22/2024 9:07:23 PM PST by Fiji Hill
“The dumbing down of our educational curriculum continues.”
As long as THEY run the schools, they can do what THEY want, after all it’s government money that they’re spending.
In Texas Governor Abbott is going to TRY to finally pass a school voucher bill so that more schools are paid with money from the parents, rather than from the government, but the RINOs are still powerful and likely will again stop him.
learning to read was my escape, from everything...
now, their every desire is on their phone.
Spending time reading keeps one out of trouble.
Trouble is defined as relying on cellphone information and entertainment, watching hours of mindless television and pop fads and trends.
When you read you are teleported to a world where you have to think, imagine and yes, even struggle trying to comprehend. The key word is struggle or make an effort.
All of the above cellphone culture and TV causes one to become lazy and passive which means that they can then be easily swayed politically or through propaganda. End result? A docile and misinformed population with no clear priorities, moral, spiritual or legal.
Maybe they should read a book..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_(Uris_novel)
That means future lawyers will also be emerging from these intellectual swamps and stagnant pools of peer groups.
https://www.amazon.com/Exodus-Novel-Israel-Leon-Uris/dp/0553258478
heh. Wikipedia like confusion with pro Israel stuff
Sadly.
Biggest reasons kids don’t read…
1) Their parents don’t read for enjoyment
2) They were never read to every day, and so their own imagination and narrators voice are non-existent.
3) Most kids are forced to learn to read visually before they are developmentally ready.
4) They did not learn to read phonetically.
5) They participate in award based reading programs (these are the worst because reading becomes a chore to get an award. Reading is its own reward).
Just read the horrendous word butchery on this site and you will see that the idea this is some sort of recent phenomenon will evaporate. It is rare to read any reply much beyond two sentences that doesn’t include multiple errors - not fat finger errors - but lack of a basic understanding of English usage.
That said, I'm on the edge of retirement, and yes, kids are definitely not reading as they were in the past. Parents aren't, especially newspapers, many of which are now on life-support. Technology shouldn't be a part of education until, maybe, the 4th or 5th grade. Kids don't need cellphones at school, or at all, and the use of them has greatly diminished the ability to form ideas, converse, and put them on paper across the board. My sons' school had one of those 'read to reward' programs. My eldest read a 300+ page book as a 5th grader and took the test. He didn't pass the test for the points because he couldn't remember the color of the 2nd protagonist's shirt, or some stupid detail like that. It killed reading for him, and he reads only rarely, and not for pleasure.
But yeah, as far as reading goes, unless the cleaning of house by Trump filters down into areas like this, we are sunk as a nation.
My 11 year old granddaughter reads books. One day when I was bringing her somewhere I got a flat tire. While I waited for someone to come change my tire she sat quietly in the back seat reading a book. She loves to read.
I’m 76 years old and my eyesight isn’t what it used to be. I have always loved getting involved in a good book but I have trouble reading them, so now I listen to them on audio. I can access most of them on my local librarys website and I belong to an audiobook website. I like especially listening to them at night with my earphones. So relaxing.
President “Not Sure” talked about this at the end of Idiocracy.
“Some teachers focus instead on selected passages — a concession to perceptions of shorter attention spans, pressure to prepare for standardized tests and a sense that short-form content will prepare students for the modern, digital world.“
It is not a digital world. It is a world which God created ruled by natural law.
You screw with that and it will come back to bite you
Teachers don’t have the authority only parents do. Parents give over their authority to idiots
A novel ba classic novel is an account of events which has a rhythm and a sequence of events necessary to the development of the mind
I work with kids who in their late twenties have the maturity of fifth graders. They’re educated and have college degrees and licensures and the possess no logic. They don’t know history, context, humor. They can’t think in advance nor analyze peoples’ behaviors and reactions. They cant follow direction. They have no family. They have fiancés. They’re idiots
They lack planning capability. They lack self awareness. They are not creative. They’re critical, defensive, self aggrandizing.
They read Harry Potter. Harry Potter is a comic book. It reads like a tv episode. The hero is a satanic spellbinder. There’s no character development. No resolution no proper rhythm. It’s stupidity and disturbing
Teachers want to cater to kids’ short attention span
How totally destructive
According to Kindle, I have read 125 of the 50 book goal I set in January. But then, I am only young in heart and spirit. It is funny. Growing up, I read too much and spent too little time building relationships with real people.
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