What your kids took or where they went doesn’t matter. I am happy they had a good teacher. Whether you never saw it happen does not negate the reality that it does happen.
If it doesn’t then pray tell how we have so many scientists totally unfamiliar with actual science? You don’t think AA kicks through scientists just like it does journalists?
Spend some time talking with ex teachers who left the system because they couldn’t deal with this crap.
Not one, over fifty.
Whether you never saw it happen does not negate the reality that it does happen.
Whether it happens does not indicate the ubiquity you touted.
If it doesn’t then pray tell how we have so many scientists totally unfamiliar with actual science?
As subjective a metric as I have seen on FR. The big problem with "actual science" is that the amount of work necessary for a PhD precludes breadth. Effectively, the breadth of graduate qualifications are limited by undergraduate work, which is limited by k-12. There is a way to fix that.
Spend some time talking with ex teachers who left the system because they couldn’t deal with this crap.
Given that I write technical books incorporating everything from botany to linguistics, I personally know well over 50 researchers personally, both retired and not. I read tons of current technical papers and probably a book a week. Of their students I see both great work and garbage. Both are spotty. I just don't think such blanket statements hold.