“[A constitutional republic] cannot for ever withstand continual carnival in the streets of its cities and the campuses of the nation. Unless sage debate replaces the belligerent strutting now used so extensively, reason will be consumed and the death of logic will surely follow.”
Spiro Agnew —May 3, 1969.
It’s far past time for us to eliminate the NEA from our schools. Their degrees are worthless. If you want science taught in your school, get someone with a real degree in science. Same for math, history, the arts, etc.
Indeed.
The left and everything they touch is the downfall of society.
“Where is my logic? I’m betrayed by... desires. Oh, I want to feel, I want to feel... everything.”
Jean-Luc Picard in a mind meld with Sarek in the TNG episode “Sarek”.
CASEL - more standard-shifting socialism
And, as much as psychologist Qx supports Emotional IQ training, he deplores this pile of fermented horse biscuits--as do I.
The term SEL is nothing more than the educational establishment’s latest attempt to secure their jobs - much like the medieval guild system.
I ran into and fought this attitude for 7 years as my children made their way through the local education system. One twin received a diploma, in spite of the system, his twin sister received a certificate of attendance.
BY the 1990’s the first line of defense for the Educational Guilds was the average parent couldn’t understand what it meant to be a teacher. They, the educators and administrators chairing the various parent-teacher conferences gave up that line of BS with me. Something about me having my own Florida Teacher’s Certificate; older than theirs but the same form with the same information on it.
Their second line of defense for the Educational Guilds was since they had a degree in education they could teach anything. My response was to bring any of my technical text books and ask a teacher (victim?) of my choice to start teaching me on that subject next week. I never encountered a teacher with a degree in education that wanted to teach me “Thermal Dynamics of a Breeder Reactor” for some silly reason.
We never got to their third line of defense for the Educational Guilds - the guilds had frozen out all competition. My small, new, liberal arts college was lauded by a national weekly news magazine in 1966 as having one of the best teacher education program in the nation. You had to have your BA in the subject(s) you were going to teach - the educational courses were a minor area of emphasis. How can you truly teach a subject if you lack in depth knowledge of it? Yet 7 years later my college had disbanded their education program - the Education Guilds had added so many requirements there was not enough academic hours available for have dual, unrelated, majors for undergraduates.
When you get down to the root of things teaching, even with all the BS the Educational Guilds have added is the easiest job out there. You need no more than four sets of teaching guides for any and all courses you teach and you are set for life. How many students are going to repeat a class that they failed the first time much less do it three more times?
Sorry for the length of this post; but, it is extremely important to the Republic.
This is Bill Auer’s ultimate goal
Commies suck
Anyone, who sends their children to a public school is practicing child abuse on their children and condemning them to a horrible future with their low grade learning.
Can’t afford to send your children to an expensive private school.
Use the internet, even in California, it is free.
Young people need to be helped to understand that. They need to learn that to make decisions based on “feelings”alone can be disastrous.
Government education is already the downfall of society - this is just one more symptom.
One MAJOR reason the US is lagging in education is because we are being dragged down by all the foreign imports and minorities.
If you look at native born white Americans, the scores are high and competitive with the highest ranking nations.
The foreign students can’t speak the language. How do you expect them to be high achievers? Some of them can’t even properly speak their native languages.
The issues with minorities have multiple causes and are too complex to go into here.
There is no ‘bright line’ of where over-wrought emotions become mental illness.
Education has become the process whereby our children are forced to SEL their souls to their almighty liberal overlords and are thereby assimilated into the Cube to become good little SJW’s. That’s it and that’s all.
There’s two issues at work:
1. Commie SJW’s running the classrooms of America.
2. Race (low IQ)
Combined they produce stupid kids by the 10’s of millions.
I hope I’m not alive when they come to power.