Posted on 04/23/2021 5:26:58 AM PDT by karpov
The silver lining of all these cynical dumbing-down policies could be a nose-dive in public school enrollment and an equal decline in teachers’ union membership and political clout.
Hopefully parents will opt for home-schooling or parochial schools.
The US will become like any other third word country where only the poor use the public schools.
No, you’ll homeschool. Doing so means your child won’t have to declare his or her gender in 5th grade, nor apologize for the skin color they were born with.
Not a bad thing. One more step in the conservatives’ self secession. They’ll leave these states and migrate to decent states. Smart states vs stupid states.
Will there be a class on how to get a Voter ID? That would be a useful life skill.
We know that 1 + 1 = 2 is racist, so change it to 1 + 1 be whatever you wants it to be.
Private schools are viewed as racist in many areas.
And most school districts work very hard to bully parents into avoiding private schools
I am going to miss indoor plumbing.
That will be the first major thing to collapse
They should also make the tall athletes wear 30# ankle weights when playing basketball, to equalize the unfair height advantage. The better shooters should only be able to take shots that count with their “off” hand.
There is, however, a useful math expression imbedded within the equity-focused plan...Lowest Common Denominator.
Have to bring down the smart ones to the level of dummies for everything to be fair.
And I’m sure China will do the same thing with their students.
God, this Country is too stupid to live anymore. Might as well get it over with now.
It started way before DummieBiden got shoved into office.
There is no peaceful path available to halt this mass psychosis ...
‘intentionally restricting gifted or motivated students is not only abuse, it is madness.’
problem is the entire concept of public schools is abuse from the word go; there are children and young adults who wish to learn, and use education as a way to advance to their future well being, and there are those children and young adults who clearly do not want to learn, and who wish to fart around until they get old enough to realize that they screwed up and have to seek education at a late date in their lives...these two groups should never have been mixed together, they should have been identified and placed in privately run systems designed to accomodate their life visions...yes, this may seem exclusionary, but it would have been totally necessary to make education something worth more than just daycare and great perks for teachers and, even more so, administrators...
too late now, though...public education is a classic example of dreams gone wrong, of transcendentalism run aground on the shoals of reality...
Leftists continue to drive the knowledge of this country down. They won’t be happy until the country falls to last in the world.
Besides it is the most racists’ move they have made yet. Apparently they think that because a person has black skin tones he/she is too stupid to learn.
Teaching to the lowest common denominator.
‘...anti-God (of course)...’
is anyone preventing people from placing their children in a church centered class for religious instruction, which is where it clearly belongs...?
― Robert A. Heinlein, Expanded Universe
‘If I had to send my kids to school now.... we’d be looking into private school...’
yes, of course, that’s all well and good; but, it’s too late...your onerous obligation of financing the flunking public school system will never go away...
the country ran amok on a perverted dream of ‘equality’ in the 1850’s, and have been slowly paying for it until it has reached the critical mass of today...
Some call it equity focused, I call it ‘dumbing’ down students. The high school I went to back in the day was fairly average. It offered Algebra in freshman year, Geometry in sophomore, Trig in junior and Calc in senior. No Einstein’s taking the courses just regular kids. Other kids took the vocational route. Really doing a dis-service to the students.
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