Meanwhile, my homeschooled 7th grader is in Algebra II, just finished reading David Copperfield, and wrote a 7 page paper on D-Day. And my acquaintances constantly ask me how he will ever get into college if he doesn’t go to school.
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Direct result of common core.
I helped with this report and can tell you this has been known since 1980 and it’s thanks to Liberals, NEA, Liberal politicians (local, state, and federal), RINOs via their indoctrination, propaganda, and brainwashing of American children. I spent over 8 years working on this issue in an attempt to inform parents what was going on in the public schools and, in some cases, private schools. This report fell on deaf ears in Congress in the 1980’s and continues through today!! By design? You answer that.
Ronald Reagan commissioned this report:
A NATION AT RISK
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/risk.html
“Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur—others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments.
If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament.
Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling, and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18 months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to renew the Nation’s commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and breadth of our land.
That we have compromised this commitment is, upon reflection, hardly surprising, given the multitude of often conflicting demands we have placed on our Nation’s schools and colleges. They are routinely called on to provide solutions to personal, social, and political problems that the home and other institutions either will not or cannot resolve. We must understand that these demands on our schools and colleges often exact an educational cost as well as a financial one.
On the occasion of the Commission’s first meeting, President Reagan noted the central importance of education in American life when he said: “Certainly there are few areas of American life as important to our society, to our people, and to our families as our schools and colleges.” This report, therefore, is as much an open letter to the American people as it is a report to the Secretary of Education. We are confident that the American people, properly informed, will do what is right for their children and for the generations to come...”
Clearly we need more gay pride events at school, more gun control rallies and more left wing propaganda from teachers.
Frankly, this all goes back to the Vietnam war days when college students entering education got indefinite deferments. It was also when the Alinskyites were recognizing that all they had to do was to take over public education (and college education) with enough Alinskyites to propagandize multiple generations of students. They are second rate students (compared with the the rest of the world) but they are now great and devoted social justice warriors and democrat voters. And if Parkland is representative, more are coming.
You have to give them credit: they accomplished their mission. Now how do we drain the swamp that is American education?
Also pay attention to the progress over time. Scores are higher than they were in 1990, but if we control for ethnicity, we do seem to be been plateaued for a number of years. Aggregate scores over time are much affected by the fact that the population share represented by both white and black students has declined, while the shares for Asian and Hispanic students have increased. The Asians, of course, bring up the averages. The Hispanics bring them down. Since we are on track to become majority Hispanic in the foreseeable future, this is not good news.
See we have an indoctrination system, not an education system. The teachers union in an organized paedophilia society that believes sex with children is a fringe benefit. To improve the education in the USA the Federal Department of education and teacher unions must be eliminated! Education control needs to be controlled by local government. Not an appointed unaccountable political tool. Especially in the age of a Dictatorial Democratic party.
But I’m sure they’re expert at using people’s preferred pronouns...
The whole idea of desegregation, and then getting the government involved in the schools was to drag public education downward, and look, they’ve succeeded in doing just that. Will wonders never cease?
Now there needs to be graphs for how the teachers ranked in math and reading.
Even the top ranking areas with 30 to 40 percent, it’s appalling. This is what we’re getting for our high property tax dollars.
But the little Borg babies ARE getting a DNC education - rutting, rioting and checkyourprivelige-matic. It’s all good.
Marxist Education/Indoctrination BUMP...
Knew these things 25 yrs ago so I homeschooled both of my kids. I gave up a career and all that goes with it and I have never regretted one minute of it. Happily gave up things. Did without. Made my own groceries, grew veggies, etc. Son is 28, Computer Engineer. Daughter is 25, Studio Artist working for a hospitality art firm.
Son went to Grove City College which does not take federal money. Daughter went to SCAD got a huge academic scholarship. She called me during her freshman year, surprised her cohorts were not well-read, could not construct complete sentences, thoughts. “Mom, my friends are dumb.”
Here in California, 50% of 8th graders are Hispanic. Many of their parents are illiterate and uneducated, unable to read to children at home or help them with their homework. Throw in the idiocy of common core and it is no surprise we are raising a generation of helpless dunces.
That 55% of all grade school Californians are hispanic means, in 2 generations, California will be 55% hispanic. Good luck with that. Hispanics wont share political power the way non-hispanic whites have done.
That is what caused me to make the decision to send my girls to a local Catholic school. Both of my daughters went to Catholic schools K-12. We took a financial hit, as a family, but, I never regretted doing it.