Posted on 02/05/2010 4:47:54 AM PST by ConservativeHideout
Sadly my recent visits to neighboring school districts showed me a different type of English class. In these English classes, students do not read and discuss the great literature of the ages- teachers feel that these books are racist or out-dated or un-PC or are simply too hard to read.
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Last April I was at a high school one evening to attend an event. I noticed a flier in a glass encased bulletin board as I was walking down the main corridor. It was an announcement for a meeting of the International Socialists club. A student told me it was the most popular club in the school.
Yep, I’m not going out and clicking on all these blogs. Post the whole thing or stay home.
Welcome to FR. Great post!
The universities went that way in English departments a long time ago, and that’s where the teachers have been educated. So it’s no surprise to some of us.
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I was very fortunate to send my daughter to a private school.
I just can not imagine subjecting a “young mind full of slush”
to ANY Pubic (sic) school today.
I only do that to let other people see what is in the article. It seems to be common practice here. That, and I make comments and hit links to other stuff posted here. If I were doing it just for links, I’d just post and go.
Thanks!
Too hard for the teacher or the student?
My guess is for the former.
More and more the quality of person going in to teaching seems to be the lazy and willfully ignorant. The type of person that is interested in working 9 months out of the year and getting an early retirement and government benefits.
A hard book to read is a hard book to teach. Talk about grade inflation now we have education deflation.
My senior English teacher re-read every book he taught every year and he taught for thirty years.
You don’t see many like that anymore.
I went to Catholic schools. I had already read all those classics by the sixth grade. Perhaps there is a fundamental problem with the entire “gummint” system if something is still “too hard to read” by the time of Sr. High skrool?
Eileen attended NJ public schools and went to a Catholic HS. She earned a BA at Smith in Mass. She went on to earn her Masters at UNC Chapel Hill, taking a Black Lit class from Blyden Jackson and getting an A. Her continuing ed classes include seminars at the Steinbeck Institute in CA and at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Needless to say, all the students want to get her. One of her female students received a $120,000 ACADEMIC scholarship from Stanford last year. A male got a similar award at BYU.
The senior textbook has a picture of Nelson Mandela next to the poem "Invictus" by Henry David Thoreau and there are lots of liberal propaganda woven in as the author of this thread attests. The District high school curriculum is mostly crap, and the average students suffer especially because of the subject matter and poorly educated teachers.
In the honors classes, the teachers and curricula are better, but the teachers in their twenties and thirties are mostly the product of Liberal State colleges who major in Education. One English teacher who majored in Health and coaches the football team.
I would advise parents of HS students to inquire about the educational background of their English teachers. Many parents are now opting to send their kids to Community College HS or to take their English classes online.
Thanks. I’ve written about teacher education in the past. It’s not pretty. It’s about indoctrinating the indoctrinators.
Kudos to your wife. I wish there were more like her.
One of my doctors has a daughter who went East to get her education at MIT. She now works for a new company that makes educational software. That is the future. Give kids the basics, how to read and how to compute, and let them go on their individual self-paced supervised learning journey. Teachers would be standing by as facilitators.
Another thing, Middle School kids. They have no manners. Their teachers here describe themselves as ranchers more than educators. The challenge is to keep order in classes that are 60% Black/Hispanic and 40% White/Asian. States like Iowa probably don't have this racial diversity.
I took my son out of Public School at grade 1 when a Black kid was pushing and tripping him. I put him in private school and he earned scholarships to Lawrenceville (2yrs) and RL Stevenson School (Pebble Beach, CA) for 3years. From there, the placement people got him one of 100 Presidential Scholarships at USC, where he majored in EE and Computer Engineering. He works at CBS now in LA. He's in his thirties and not married. When he does marry and raise children, he will most probably be very careful about relying on Government schools to educate his own.
I think there has to be a complete overhaul of public education for the 21st century with the inventions of the personal computer and internet making access to information so easy and cheap.
Agree and disagree. Agree modern education should make use of internet libraries and course work. Disagree, some one has to teach kids how to learn to tap into the virtual library. Would love to see economics and ethics required subjects during high school. Current system is merely a warehousing operation. Was in my time as well.
Well he had of course started teaching in the 60s, so he went to high school in the 50s.
Schools considered education their primary mission back then.
Classical schools are popping up all over the country. Obviously, parents want something better for their kids.
I was perusing my brother’s NJEA magazine yesterday. There was an article on high school “literature.” A student who was interviewed actually said that they couldn’t read books about “guns or religion.”
“Classical schools are popping up all over the country.” That is an encouraging sign.
I wonder if “guns or Religion” also preclude any talk of the founders?
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