Posted on 06/01/2020 7:00:31 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
When I got my M.A. some years ago, I had to take a course on Latin American culture and specifically chose Peru to do the study. What I found was absolutely stunning. A former professor, Abimael Guzman, had started terrorist group, The Sendero Luminoso, with students and built it into an efficient, ruthless killing machine in a bid to take over the country. One woman who was trying to persuade people to NOT follow him was grabbed by his goons, dragged into the center of town where she lived, and strapped with dynamite. The villagers were told if they kept listening to people like her the same thing was going to happen to them that was about to happen to her. They lit a fuse and blew her to pieces.
The war between the government and this group was horrific. Finally, Alberto Fujimoro (born in Peru to Japanese parents) took control and crushed the rebellion. He would pay later when others who hated his tactics ended up getting him convicted for supposed crimes. You can read about him on the internet. His methodology worked. He stopped a VERY ruthless terrorist group from taking over the country.
We are facing a revolution (not protests) started by academia. I don't know what group is directing all of this, but it IS a coordinated effort. They are using the "useful idiot" students and poor minorities (who just want to steal something) to effect their plan. Thus, you see the mixture of young people at the riots. To repeat, this is NOT protesting, it is the beginning of an attempted revolution. I would surmise that some members of the Democrat Party are behind it and may have brought members of academia into the group in a bid for a total takeover. Unless the government (which has been infiltrated by those who support this movement) stops this with an iron fist, we are only seeing the beginning of this.
“...… engineers and scientists as public school teachers. But without some training, it could be disastrous. I’ve seen that happen! …..”
All I have ever asked/expected of an instructor be it high school or college is for them to present the material in an organized fashion. That simple thing seems way beyond almost all the teachers I ever had from high school through college to graduate school. I can count on less then one hand those that approached instruction in an organized way.
> Thank you for the reply. All they have to do is appear confident and the Useful Idiots will eat up everything they say. <
You’re welcome. By the way, the trick to being an “educational consultant” these days is to make wild promises.
“Hire me, and I’ll close the achievement gap! I’ll raise tests scores by 20 percent! Attendance will improve! Pigs will fly!”
But none of these guys ever address the central problem in urban public schools: the lack of discipline - which leads to chaotic classrooms (oh, the stories I could tell you).
So the educational consultant’s program fails. Out he goes, only to be replaced by a similar educational consultant.
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