A Stroll through the Beautiful Ruins of American Public Education

Renew America ^ | March 7, 2018 | Bruce Deitrick Price

[kiryandil]

Friends don't let friends send their beloved children to the public school shooting galleries.

Friends help their friends home-school their precious children.

[kiryandil]

The main thing to know about ideologues, in addition to their ruthlessness, is that they are tireless. They never take a week off.

And when they DO take a week off - you're paying for that week as a taxpayer.

Just as you're paying them full-time to be a vicious ideologue...

[Kipp]

Another thing to change: Stop teaching to the lowest common denominator. This is essentially done so students won’t feel bad about not being in a top group. Most people find it acceptable to let the most athletic students play on varsity teams, but it’s not acceptable to let students who learn more quickly be in classes that progress at a faster pace.

[joshua c]

Stop with the central planning. Let the states and localities run things.

Abolish the Education Department. All they do is enforce the strings attached to the FED money. They are a LEFT policy enforcer. period.

[Teacher317]

My second ex-fiancee has been a professor at a smaller Division I university for 30+ years. I trust her when she says that the steady decline of the talents and abilities of virtually every incoming freshman class is more troubling than the one before. The current crop simply doesn’t want to work, is incapable of abstract thought, and seem to be stymied by the word “if” the days.

[outofsalt]

ping for later

[marktwain]

This is the result of Progressive ideology.

One of its main tenents is to take over education to indoctrinate children to become the citizenry it wants.

That involves educating them against God, against the Constitution, against the theory of Natural Law, against Capitalism, against limited government, and in favor of government control of all things.

It holds as a self evident truth that experts (educators) know better than everyone else how to educate children.

In fact, warring bands of educators are always looking for a new program to latch onto to make their name and fortune.

They can never admit to failure, or they give up their perks and status.

[humblegunner]

Q&A with Bruce Deitrick Price

So who are you to play the expert?

What makes you so much more knowledgeable than everyone else?

And why are you so needful of attention that you would post it here?

[Bonemaker]

“Stop with the central planning. Let the states and localities run things.

Abolish the Education Department. All they do is enforce the strings attached to the FED money. They are a LEFT policy enforcer. period.”

Precisely. My experience going through the public school system during the 50’s in both Iowa and Illinois was that they were pretty damn good! The only thing I can pin the decline on is the creation of the fed dept of ed. All downhill since. And more recently Bush’s gem “no child left behind” that he let Ted “the puke” Kennedy design hasn’t helped.

[TexasGator]

“That’s a reference to World War I when soldiers at the front were called “cannon fodder.”

It goes Bach much further than that.

[hanamizu]

Most people find it acceptable to let the most athletic students play on varsity teams, but it’s not acceptable to let students who learn more quickly be in classes that progress at a faster pace.

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I found a similar reaction from both kids and parents when it came to ball practice and homework. All of the kids understood the point of and need for practice. Even if they didn’t like it, they’d do it so they could play basketball. Homework? Completely different. Why should they have to do school work after school? Why work more to get better at school?

[hanamizu]

Most people find it acceptable to let the most athletic students play on varsity teams, but it’s not acceptable to let students who learn more quickly be in classes that progress at a faster pace.

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I found a similar reaction from both kids and parents when it came to ball practice and homework. All of the kids understood the point of and need for practice. Even if they didn’t like it, they’d do it so they could play basketball. Homework? Completely different. Why should they have to do school work after school? Why work more to get better at school?

[lurk]

The public school system is a Soviet relic. The teachers and admins are there not to excel or compete, but because the job positions exist. Innovation or inspiration are killed in the grinder of bureaucratic protocol, lawsuit aversion and equality. Those inside the system do not see the need for change, just the continuance of the system. See the inability to think for oneself in the various school offices and the deadness in their eyes.

[Sam Gamgee]

A Canadian perspective: I am a big social studies fan, but my wife is not, and will be teaching social studies soon. From speaking to her what I figured out is that teacher rely strongly, especially if they have few insights themselves, on source materials. In Canada, the majority, if not all of the textbooks and materials obviously take a liberal slant. Everyone ends up teaching the same leftist speak.

I recall a few big things we learned that were patently false or biased:

1) Wilson was a great President. Canadians love Wilson. After all he created the league of nations. None of us know he betrayed his promise to NOT get into WWI.

2) Franco was a tyrant fighting the legitimate republican forces. Patently false or simplified.

3) The Dark Ages have little to offer and gave us nothing of note. We now know so much more about the so called Dark Ages, and the glorious rise of Western Europe.

[Dick Bachert]

I believe it was Dr. Gary North who, years ago, coined a phrase to describe the activities of the Frankfurt and Fabian Socialists when he declared "When the socialists came to take over American, they sought to CAPTURE THE ROBES." The judiciary, the academics, the clergy and others who then (or in earlier times) wore ROPES or similar vestments as symbols of their authority or station.

While they went for journalism (adult opinion molders - and Columbia, where the Frankfurt School agents landed in1935 - was a major target) they went after what used to be called “Normal Schools”, the colleges and universities specializing in TEACHING THE TEACHERS. They were spectacularly successful as every TEACHER sent forth carrying the Marxist virus infected THOUSANDS of young people in a decades long career. Can you say "exponential growth"?

They were wildly successful and we have a generations long fight on our hands - if fight we will - to turn them back. And you have only to watch CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, etc. or read the NYT, WAPO, etc. to see the results in that arena.

Former FBI Agent (back when - putting aside a self-serving J. Edgar Hoover - the tops of such agencies had not yet been infiltrated with leftist traitors) Larry Grathwohl's 2 1/2 minute testimony concerning the destination these Cultural Marxists have in mind is here:

LARRY GRATHWOHL

[Bonemaker]

“They should major/minor in the subjects they will eventually teach. That’s common sense everywhere but the USA.”

My understanding is that no matter how educated or experienced you are in a paticular subject (especially stem types) you can’t get teacher certified unless you take required education courses...whatever the hell that is.

[elbook]

Leftists want dependent people. Its as simple as that.

“Destroy all institutions” is the first like in their ‘little red book’.

America needs to remove them from all positions of power to survive - like a body defecates poisons.

Denounce them

Boycott them

Tell them to their faces that they are evil.

[MichaelCorleone]

“Friends help their friends home-school their precious children.”

Well said.

[ml/nj]

Just spent four days with my 2nd grade granddaughter on trip to visit her great-grandmother. We got talking about school, and that I didn't really like it when I was her age. She does seem to like it. She asked me why I didn't like it, and I told her that they spent a lot of time talking about things I wasn't interested in like history. (Things have changed, to be sure, but probably not until I was in my mid-20s.) I don't think she really knew what history meant, but after a brief back and forth the first name she mentioned was ROSA PARKS.

OMG !!

I asked if she knew who George Washington was, and she asked me if I meant GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER. A little more discussion revealed that she did know that the George Washington the first President. I asked her about the second and third. She knew neither even though both of her parents are UVa alumni. (FTR, Mr. Jefferson founded the University of Virginia.)

[This granddaughter is not a dummy. She knows who Anna Netrebko is and can talk about several of her performances.]

ML/NJ