Posted on 03/21/2019 5:51:34 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
It’s kind of a two-tiered system: the kids of motivated parents are boosted ahead, with enrichment and tutoring and sports and test-prep classes and AP classes and internships. From day one. A few emerge from this with a genuine love of learning intact. Others are just tired, burnt-out, and hoping this will result in a respectable career somehow.
The other kids have curricula which is not nearly as challenging, and they have social lives which are not as conducive to deep thought (vaping in the park, or whatever). They are as burnt out on school as the over-acheivers, but have less to show for it. Not many will ever catch up.
It actually goes back to John Dewey, in the early 1900s, who intended to turn America into a socialist nation via education. His work infiltrated all the colleges of education beginning with Columbia. The early 1920s was when they began to change the way children are taught to read by deemphasizing phonics. By the 60s enough teachers had been trained to begin their real socialist work.
They did all their experimentation in the inner city schools because inner city parents don't complain like suburban parents do. But now the suburban schools are getting the programs that were "practiced" on the inner city kids. That is how we got Common Core. Teaching kids without really teaching them so they end up as adults who cannot think to save their lives.
I knew of this before any of my children were old enough to go to school. None of my kids went to public school. I either paid for private/parochial school or I homeschooled. Any school my kids went to I made sure the teachers had the same ideas of education as I did. My kids can think. All of them went to college and none of them are politically stupid. Amen and Amen.
I was taking algebra for the first time. The class I had before my algebra class was swimming which was at the complete opposite end of the school. So I had 10 minutes to dry off, put my clothes back on and make a mad dash to algebra. I would usually arrive at class just after the bell rang which made me chronically tardy. The teacher made no bones about not liking me. I would raise my hand to ask a question and she would say, "What a stupid question. Any idiot would know the answer to that." I managed to get out of her class just a few weeks after catching a whiff of her hatred. But, all my desire to really learn algebra left me. I homeschooled my kids until they had to do algebra. I did not want any of my negativity to rub off on them.
You sound like a peach of a teacher.
The more I learn, the more I believe in GOD. The universe is not an accident.
There is no such thing such as a stupid question. We learn by asking questions. Your teacher was an a$$. I love it when a student will ask me a question that I don’t know the answer to give them. Many of the math formulas that I’ve created, and discovered is because of students questions. Any teacher who won’t answer a question, is not a real teacher.
If you asked them “how much you would have to steal from your parents if a bag of drugs costs $100 but you only have $50,” they would get the answer in a millisecond.
Those who question authority (i.e., those enforcing the socialist system) must be removed from the general population and reconditioned until they either can be made to cease this questioning...or else.
If you had been running a private school in our area I would have been eager to have enrolled my children.
Solution: Begin the process of privatizing all education from Pre-K through to university graduate school.
In the first grade, on the walk to and from the school, I would scream and chant as loudly as I possibly could, I HATE SCHOOL!!!!” I would do this at other times, as well.
My mother would ask me to stop doing this but I continued throughout the school year. As I moved into second grade I had stopped. By then, I had gone through all the stages of grief. I was in a state of numb and depressed acceptance.
What you describe is the broader context for the recent cheating scandal. I think cheating has been epidemic for maybe 50 years. I don’t mean everyone does it but a great number. Also, add in the fact that you can buy essays on the Internet. So millions of kids are really helpless at this point.
The school obviously is not trying to stop cheating. So students are very surprised when you complain. Don’t cheat? What a weird idea.
Terrible.
I didn’t do that so nobody knew. When I wasn’t stressed about a test, the walking-to-school time was part of my daydreaming down time.
Amazing I had enough situational awareness to survive the journey!
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