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The Truth About Education?? You Can’t Handle The Truth
RightSideNews.com ^ | Feb. 20, 2012 | Bruce Deitrick Price

Posted on 02/29/2012 1:09:37 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice

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You cannot blame the 1 million dyslexics on the education industry. Dyslexia is born, not created. Three of my four children are dyslexic to varying degrees (the most academically successful child being the most dyslexic one) ... and it’s not the school’s fault ... it’s mine. I gave it to them. I have it too.


21 posted on 02/29/2012 3:33:02 PM PST by lkco
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“However, as we consider the top level of the Education Establishment, the smartest people, don’t we have to assume much greater awareness? There is so much obvious decay, so much intellectual decline, so many dreadful statistics. Surely, the top-tier people have to know exactly what they’re doing and why.”

Educational policy is actually not set by people in education, for the most part. It is set partially by politicians and lawyers, and the other part by people who have meaningless desk jobs where they do not have any contact with students. It is often based on research some of these people did as grad students or as their dissertation. That research is mostly verbiage either based on surveys which students do not take seriously or rubbish that name-drops some behavioral theorist forty-six times a paragraph.

As far as Common Core, I say the hell with it. Each state should decide what they intend regarding education- preferably by allowing it to be handled at the local level, as Newt Gingrich said.


22 posted on 02/29/2012 4:30:23 PM PST by GenXteacher (He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
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Let’s create public schools that will take each child as far as each one can go. Oh, I agree!! But the educational establishment will NOT accept this, insisting that each child is capable of becoming a theoretical physicist, mechanical engineer, applied mathematician or cranial surgeon -- and if they don't, there is something wrong with the system or the teachers are incompetent boobs from the dregs of colleges and universities. We teachers are being asked to do the impossible. Not every child is capable of mastering courses such as Algebra I. I know this because I taught Algebra I for a number of years. The failure rate at DH's large high school school for Algebra I was 74% this past semester, only THREE students received A's out of 350. Many of those who failed, did so for the second or third time. What we do is pass failing kids around the department to different teachers, all of whom have math credentials and 25+ years of experience and training and all of whom have TRIED EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO HELP KIDS PASS ALGEBRA I. We follow a very carefully monitored program that is designed (as all the others) to reach each kid at his own level. Not one of these teachers enjoys failing students, we didn't go into teaching to fail students but to help them succeed -- it is the most rewarding aspect of our job. Yet, they're still failing. I defy anyone who thinks "teachers are failing students" to come and show us how to do it. Show us what we've been doing wrong for the past two decades. Which multi-million dollar program that was supposed to help kids "master Algebra I" worked? (answer: none of them). What on earth hasn't been tried?? Maybe, just maybe it's the students AND NOT THE TEACHERS. Why do so many people, especially those who have never taught school, insist that ALL kids are attentive, interested in the subject matter, respectful, on time, have their homework finished, have studied for tests, brought their materials to class and are sitting quietly waiting for an incompetent teacher to begin the lesson? The reality is far different. Never are teachers asked about indifferent, disconnected, disinterested students, of which we have many -- students who refuse to do homework, study or open the textbook, are disrespectful to teachers and other authorities, are disruptive in class, arrive late to school daily and never bring pencil, pen or textbook to class. Call home? Please. We do this repeatedly and send home progress reports every four weeks. We have tutoring before and after school every day for struggling students, very few of whom bother to show up on any given day. Burn the system to the ground? And replace it with what? What do you think would work? I'm listening.
23 posted on 02/29/2012 10:10:39 PM PST by Bon of Babble (The Road to Ruin is Always Kept in Good Repair)
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An excellent video. I recommend it.

Thanks to everyone for the many smart comments.


24 posted on 03/01/2012 12:12:30 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice (education reform)
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