Posted on 04/05/2011 6:10:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
If you're in college to get teacher certification, you'll probably be required to attend classes on "multicultural education." This is supposed to bring diversity to the classroom and prepare teachers to teach pupils of various ethnic or national backgrounds.
The textbooks in these courses typically include "Teachers as Cultural Workers" by Paulo Freire, a Brazilian socialist who preached that society is divided into oppressors and oppressed. Other required readings teach that Americans are an institutionally racist society and are designed to train teachers to create political radicals to promote "progressive" social change.
The monthly journal Education Reporter published an expose by a teacher who attended a conference on training teachers how to teach students what is called "social justice," a code word for a type of teaching that is contrary to traditional American notions of justice based on individual rights. "Social justice" teaches children that America is an unjust and oppressive society that should be changed.
Social justice materials typically include far-left proposals such as acceptance of homosexuality, alternate lifestyles, radical feminism, abortion, illegal immigration, cultural relativism and the redistribution of wealth.
Social justice is often promoted through what is called "student-directed learning" because students are supposed to "construct" their own knowledge. These words put a new spin on what was called "unguided learning" or "minimal guidance learning."
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The sad part is the end result where this transfers out of the classroom into the boardroom. Where millions are spent trying to be ‘multi cultural’ instead of simply appealing to the individual. I live it every day. This seems a cycle that is self fueling. The loss of individuality to someone’s group definition.
You gotta be freaking kidding me.
And people wonder why I insist that my daughter will NEVER set a single toe inside a public school.
This is a college thread, but homeschoolers may be interested.
I think the NEA has endorsed sex by 10 or something these days. They aren’t just freaking nuts, they are perverts.
In preschool the 3 little pigs has morphed into a story of listening, understanding, and learning to get along.
Once the student radicals left the dual shelter of home and their alma mater they discovered that the “real” world wasn't interested in their opinions or college experiences. In fact the only place that placed any value on their opinions and college experiences were the education system. So, they retreated into the comforting world they had learned to manipulate and dominate and become college professors.
In any functional society they wouldn't have gone there. But in our society with a fetish for “advanced education” (aka BS, MS, PhD) their production of paperwork and destruction of rational thought was applauded.
Some 40 years later we are witnessing the logical outcome of this augmented by tenure.
The way to correct this lies within the wallets of our children, our grand-children’s parents. Don't send you children to school for degrees that have no use outside academia. If the college is teaching bovine excrement pay for your children to go elsewhere. Plus, don't you, yourselves, contribute to alumni fund drives.
Stop rewarding failure. We have done so for a generation and all it produces is more failure.
Logic.
http://documents.nytimes.com/new-sample-questions-ap-us-history
Take a look at the type of sample questions on the newest AP test.
I’ve long resisted dumping the public school system but I’m finally deciding it may be too far gone. Its time to stop feeding the beast and go back to the roots of education in America. The same goes for public funding of universities.
I am fully in favor of homeschooling. They are attempting re-education of adults as well. I have to take “continuing education” classes in order to maintain my professional license. Oy! You should see the attempts at brainwashing!
hThe same problems that we see with government education we also see in those nations with government health systems. The reason these problems exist is because the underlying problem with both is that they are socialist-funded and collectivist-managed.
Just as government schooling did fairly well initially, if we as a nation move to government health it too will function OK for a while. The reason is that the values and professionalism of the existing doctors and nurses who were trained under the private system will carry on. As they retire, and doctors, nurses, and administrators who were trained under the socialist system take over that is when we will see deterioration from decade to decade, just as we have seen with government education.
Just as in government schooling in 40 or 50 years people will say the following about government health care:
**if only we could get back to basics
** if only we could get rid of the unions
** If only we could abolish federal control and return health care to the states
**If only we could have local control.
** if only we could reform the doctor, nurse, and health administrator colleges.
** If only we could elect conservatives to the local health board.
As the health system becomes intolerable a few hard people will “homecare” and find alternatives outside of the U.S.
Conclusion: Government schools can not be reformed because government schools by definition are socialist-funded and collectivist-managed.
What's needed is complete separation of school and state.
From the article: “A new study reports the dismal finding that 45% of college students show no significant improvement in the key measures of critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing by the end of their sophomore year. During their prior semester, half the students did not take a single course that required 20 pages of writing, and a third did not take a single course requiring so much as 20 pages of reading per week.”
Spring semester of my sophomore year I took Microprocessor System Design, Multivariable Calculus, Navigation (NROTC), Signals and Systems, and Digital Electronic Circuit Design. There was a lot of coding and problem solving, but I wonder where the author would suggest putting in the writing and reading?
You know, it’s beginning to look like someone needs to start a college horror story ping list.
Don’t look at me.....
Just throwing that out there.
The monthly journal Education Reporter published an expose by a teacher who attended a conference on training teachers how to teach students what is called "social justice," a code word for a type of teaching that is contrary to traditional American notions of justice based on individual rights. "Social justice" teaches children that America is an unjust and oppressive society that should be changed.
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