Posted on 03/09/2014 7:14:13 AM PDT by Sioux-san
The nine main problems and a relevant link for each:
1) Bad Reading Methods. Whole word (also known as sight-words, Dolch words, and many other aliases) is an 85-year flop that never worked. Children are told to memorize words as graphic designs. For most children, that’s effectively the end of literacy. (Learn about phonics.)
2) Inane Math Instruction. New Math and Reform Math mix advanced concepts with elementary arithmetic, guaranteeing that children are confused and make little progress. Inefficient methods are taught. The rhetoric is that children are learning the meaning behind the numbers. For young children, this is an absurd notion. How many adults know the “meaning" behind 5+2 = 7? (Innumeracy by design.)
3) Contempt For Knowledge. Everywhere in the public schools, we hear this whine: “Why would children need to know THAT?” Many schools scorn the very notion that there is anything in particular the children need to know, even such basics as who was George Washington and how many ounces are in a pound. (Learning stuff is valuable. )
4) Inefficient Teaching Methods. Constructivism is the main handicap in the public schools. This method requires that teachers stop teaching; they must stand passively aside. Meanwhile children are supposed to figure out everything for themselves. This will be a slow and incoherent process. (How constructivism hurts minorities.)......
Here’s how you know that Common Core is up to no good. It does not try to fix any of these problems. Rather, Common Core embraces them all and recycles them into supposedly new standards.
Bruce Deitrick Price explains education theories and methods on his site Improve-Education.org.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If the parents, grandparents, and great grandparents were schooled in the government's godless SS schools ( single-payer and socialist-entitlement K-12 schools) what type of nut is eventually produced?
( Just wondering.)
Hm....Probably parents who think their godless, single-payer, and socialist-entitlement SS school was good.
To fix public education,
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Schools that are single-payer, socialist-entitlement, GODLESS, and with attendance **forced** and paid for through threat of police and court action CAN NOT BE FIXED.
( Yeah, I am shouting but I shouldn’t have to shout out the obvious.)
Hey, they don’t call them low information voters for nothing. It ain’t their money so don’t try to educate them with facts.
Single-payer, compulsory-funded, compulsory-use, and socialist-entitlement schooling has **always** been run by liberals. It was a Prog idea in the 1800s. Progs have always controlled teacher training and curriculum development. The Progs have always been pushing the envelope of society's morals and ethics.
Fundamentally, SS schooling ( single-payer and socialist-entitlement schooling) can not be fixed precisely because it is built upon a foundation of socialism! In just one to three generations of SS schooling the nation voted in Franklin D. Roosevelt!
Nearly every teacher in this nation ( even in private schools) was trained by godless Marxists in Marxist-run colleges and universities. Even if the teacher is not a Marxist, the training does leak through into the godless classroom.
Also....Please remember that government K-12 schooling was the nation's first single-payer and socialist-entitlement program. At its best it was merely generically lukewarm in its Protestant worldview. Since the 1960s they have been utterly godless.
The fundamental reason government schooling fails is that it is godless SS schooling ( single-payer and socialist-entitlement) schooling. It is a abominable institution that compels attendance and funding through threat of police and court action. ( Real bullets in those guns on the hip.)
That should be “consistent”.
I would certain appreciate it if FR would get an edit option.
Government control. Department of Education should be eliminated. The government is controlled by fools so what would one expect the outcome to be? Disaster.
That was the last point the author made at the end of the article - this was all intentional. The University Schools of Education churn out the socialists who run the govt. schools and most the private schools, too.
A couple of years (IIRC) ago I read that a major US corporation stated that new hires coming out of our school systems were NOT un-educated. They were un-educable!!
Hopeless, and public school spends approximately $300,000 per student for 12 years of school.
BTW, one of my kids (son) was street smart and skilled (hands on type) but did not fair well (flunked out) in college. The other (daughter) excelled and has several degrees and near perfect GPA to prove it. Both are professionals in their respective fields and doing well. Son always asks daughter to compute his income tax when she does hers (because of her finance and accounting background). Daughter is always amazed that son earns more than her. Son is always amazed he cons her into doing his tax returns for free.
Which is to say, parents should know that each child is unique and has the potential to excel if encouraged to obtain the right education. One educational model does not fit all.
I got your point - You don’t think much of the author (first time I have ever read any of his stuff). Bottomline is parents for the last couple of generations are a product of the System. Some may know something is wrong, but refuse to do anything serious to rectify the situation. Their children’s education is their sole responsibility, but they are letting the Govt. serve as dangerous babysitters who brainwash children into compliant fools — happy to take govt. handouts and/or sit on his/her arse for the rest of his/her life in a classroom or mom/dad’s basement because the decent jobs just aren’t there. People are starting to catch on, but my, we are slow learners and even slower responders.
I have noticed that about a lot of the ‘younger generation’ — no use whatsoever for anything us old fogies can tell them - despite poor performance and remedial training, they fully expect to get good reviews and lots of raises. If they don’t, the company is in for some real hissy fits.
True but as they Americanize, what do you do about the pattern of 2nd and 3rd generation immigrant children? What we are seeing in the education system is a direct result of the culture wars. Barely literate 18 year olds will vote Democratic.
Why then do Asian students excel?
I have attended both religious schools and public schools as have my children. I have yet to find a bad one. A teacher or two, yes, but overall, they were quite able to teach those who wanted to learn.
Time to kick them out.
Agree they keep passing the uneducated for the sake of funding.
The best antidote against liberal ideology begins at home around the dinner table. Educate your kids and answer their questions. Don’t depend on the school system, whether private or public, to supply all the answers.
If they have no questions, something is very wrong and needs to be researched. If the questions are too political or sexual for their age level or never about academics, something is out of balance. Find out what’s going on and get involved. Get them out of that school and its environment.
I know it’s easier said than done, but it can be done. Like child predators, liberals want your children. Don’t let them have them.
BTW, grand parents should get involved since we are footing the bills in many cases, if you get my drift.
I can't understand parents complaining that their child isn't a good reader. You are the parent. You'd better take up the slack because you brought that kid into this world, you are with them for 18 years, you are the one who is there at night, you are the one who has only a few kids around, not a huge group of them, you are the one who should be making sure that child keeps up.
Get back to traditional teaching-—Not a quick fix. The Union is a big part of the problems—but the real problem is how teachers are taught to teach.
That's half the reason why Catholic schools are so good. Even for scholarship kids the parents have to pay a share of the tuition. So now they have 1) looked for a better school for their kid and 2) have put some financial "skin" in the game, so they are invested in their child's success.
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