Our National Education System: A $49 Billion Dollar Disaster

CNSNews.com ^ | January 25, 2002 | Alan Caruba

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Here’s some links to some education threads (also containing numerous helpful links)

FReegards

High Schools Fail Thanks To Grade Inflation And Social Promotion
Source: Toogood Reports; Published: December 5, 2001
Author: Vin Suprynowicz

WHY AMERICANS CAN’T READ
Source: Accuracy in Media; Published: December 4, 2001
Author: Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid

The Failing Teacher and the Teachers' Code of Silence
Source: CNSNews.com; Published: December 3, 2001
Author: Glenn Sacks

Time for outrage! Linda Bowles reports latest results in America's public schools
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: November 27, 2001
Author: Linda Bowles

Illiterate in Boston: Samuel Blumenfeld explains U.S.'s ongoing reading problem
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: July 20, 2001
Author:Samuel Blumenfeld

NEA - Let our children go!
Source: WorldNet Daily; Published: June 23. 2001
Author: Linda Harvey

Why Do Schools Play Games With Students' Minds ?
Source: The Detroit News; Published: April 1, 2001
Author: Thomas Sowell

The Public School Nightmare: Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought?
Source: http://home.talkcity.com/LibraryDr/patt/homeschl.htm
Author: John Taylor Gatto

Dumbing down teachers
Source: USNews.com; Published: February 21, 2001
Author: John Leo

Free Republic links to education related articles (thread#8)
Source: Free Republic; Published: 3-20-2001
Author: Various

Are children deliberately 'dumbed down' in school? {YES!!!}
Source: World Net Daily; Published: May 13, 2001
Author: Geoff Metcalf {Interview}

New Book Explores America's Education Catastrophe
Source: Christian Citizen USA; Published: April 2000
Author: William H. Wild

Deliberately dumbing us down (Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt's, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"
Source: WorldNetDaily.com; Published: December 2,1999
Author: Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Could they really have done it on purpose?
Source: THE LIBERTARIAN; Published: 07/28/2000
Author: Vin Suprynowicz

From the Littleton Crisis to Government Control Littleton Crisis to Government Control

The UN Plan for Your Mental Health The UN Plan for Your Mental Health

[capecodder]

Bumping for the future of the U.S.A.

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks. There you have it my friends. Some of us tried to tell you that George Bush would in many ways be just as bad as Clinton. If he didn't know better than than to approve this "stuff", and cut back the Department of Education, he's not quite the man you thought he was.

Folks, this education system is despicable.

[EdReform]

Let's Help Nail the Teachers Unions -- It is National FReep Time

*Education News bump...

[koba]

America spends so much money on education but has to recruit a significant part of its medical, computer, engineering, and scientific talent from abroad. The system is not working, except perhaps for members of the NEA.

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[DoughtyOne]

I totally agree.

[DoughtyOne]

Isn't this a sad situation. Thanks for your comments.

[headsonpikes]

It may be a disaster for the kids, but it's a winner for the politicians and bureaucrats.

Two out of three isn't bad. ;^)

[Justa]

I think it's a lot worse than a waste. They're creating the socialists, communists and marxists to support their eventual electoral coup via massive vote fraud made possible by the motor-voter laws.

[ImpBill]

An interesting and informative read pointing out "the problem".

The following is not necessarily aimed at you or anyone, as you are just the bearer of the message. I have been around long enough to understand that. Isn't it amazing that we (at FR.com) or at least I feel it necessary to post all sorts of disclaimers in an attempt to heighten a discussion of the topic? PCness has invaded freerepublicville.

Now, and just as an exercise in playing devils advocate ...
I repeat, only as an exercise ... assuming all is as reported, and accepting the fact that today represents the starting point, what is the solution? The author has stated the problem quite well and there will be all sorts of hand wringing and GW Bashing going on throughout this thread, but what is a realistic and viable solution?

Gnashing of molars will not reverse this trend. Questioning each others conservatism/patriotism/political affiliation will not fix the problem, only exacerbate it.

What is, if there is one, a do-able solution?

[bettina0]

Are you from Virginia? Home School Legal Defense Association today reports that a bill in the Virginia legislature would mandate the passing of SOL tests for ALL who apply to Virginia state colleges -- that means homeschoolers, private schoolers, and out-of-state applicants. That is one way of mandating a national curriculum.

[max61]

Euclid's students sitting on a stone under an olive tree with a stick in the dirt understood more geonmetry twenty four hundred years ago than 99% of today's graduates "blessed" with billions of dollars of computers.

The only thing accomplished by placing and ultimately relying on computers in primary education is that it allows idiots as instructors. It will takes no more than 10 years for our highly educated workforce to becomes a bunch off illiterate idiots. These same poor illiterate fools will feel good about themselves however. The jobs for the highly educated will be given to immigrants who will work for much less than American citizens. This is the whole purpose for the 401B visa program and this is happening right now. IMO, the feds should tax 401B workers at a rate of 97%. <

Doesn't anyone find it ironic that over 1,000,000 skilled Americans lost their jobs last year, but the number of 401B visa workers continue to increase?. The federal government has ABSOLUTELY NO AUTHORITY to be involved in primary education. A child's primary education is a parental responsibility,not a governmental responsibility. The original purpose of public school's was to allow parents to pool resources in order to be more efficient while educating their children. Government has contorted this purpose.

---max

[EdReform]

"Doesn't anyone find it ironic that over 1,000,000 skilled Americans lost their jobs last year, but the number of 401B visa workers continue to increase?"

H-1B Hall of Shame

[Tailgunner Joe]

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[c-b 1]

Home School Legal Defense Association today reports that a bill in the Virginia legislature would mandate the passing of SOL tests for ALL who apply to Virginia state colleges -- that means homeschoolers, private schoolers, and out-of-state applicants. That is one way of mandating a national curriculum.

I got word today that the same thing is happening in the Arizona legislature.

There are some good ideas listed above to correct the problem, but the only permanent solution is to eliminate the Department of Education. How to do that I don't know, our elected officials all think that no child will get an education without it. If every child were pulled out of the government brainwashing centers and home schooled, the problem would be solved but that isn't going to happen either.

[Red Jones]

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