We Teach Nothing, We Know Nothing—and
That Could Cost the United States Everything
PJ Media,
by
Bryan Preston
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
10/15/2019 1:51:23 PM
A couple of years ago, a retired teacher who stays in close touch with history teachers across Texas told me something disturbing. Like most states, Texas has standardized testing. Unlike most states, Texas requires public school students to study Texas history in the 4th and 7th grades. Texas history is red in tooth and claw and full of big personalities and big ideas. Standardized testing is forcing teachers to drop about half of the second semester of Texas history to focus on U.S. history -- not to deepen students' understanding of American history, but to teach to the standardized tests.
This, according to my friend, shortchanges
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DARling 10/15/2019 2:03:36 PM (No. 208119)
I used to talk to a lot of teachers whom I knew through various activities. When they pulled the "I can't do _____ because I have to teach to the test" card I asked why they couldn't work history into English assignments, and science into other subjects and activities. I used to have to read things like, "A Visit to my Abuela" and other claptrap to the students, when reading assignments could have served double duty. Whenever I had free time as a volunteer I would do things that I wanted to do. Several kids opined that they wished their regular teachers would do that.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 10/15/2019 2:15:29 PM (No. 208126)
The Soviets sent hundreds of teachers to the USA, starting in the 1920s with the intent of destroying the USA from within. Read "Radical Son" by Horowitz for more details. And they are succeeding.
Keeping your children, or grandchildren out of government schools should be your most important life's task.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 10/15/2019 2:31:58 PM (No. 208141)
A Must Read if ever there was one.
Why can’t Sec DeVoss make the necessary changes?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Clinger 10/15/2019 3:00:36 PM (No. 208159)
Not only do we need to teach our history we must teach world history in order for the little darlings to grasp the concept of American exceptionalism. It's as much what we are not as it is what we are, or sadly were to a great extent.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Wary American 10/15/2019 3:12:28 PM (No. 208170)
In 1977-1978 I was used as a 'substitute teacher'. Back THEN the beginnings of today were witnessed by me. In fact, I left my college degree behind to 'get a job' in the real world.
I have been writing it ever since: A DUMB POLITIC is EXACTLY WHAT 'THEY' want. Teaching today is glorified baby-sitting. And one can just about forget about a real education today...teachers today no longer 'teach' they destroy the youngest and now the youngest are coming home to roost...without literacy, science, mathematics or the ability to arrive at any decision ON THEIR OWN...we now are ALL are in jeopardy.
A L L.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mathman 10/15/2019 3:40:16 PM (No. 208204)
Incorrect.
Students know how to put on a condom.
Students know to vote Democratic.
Students know that Socialism is good.
Students know that Capitalism is bad.
Students know we will die from global warming.
Students know lots of things, all of them wrong.
So don't accuse the school of slacking. They are doing their job, which is making the jobs of teachers safe and permanent and high income.
It is hard to teach so much phony stuff and get away with it!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 10/15/2019 3:40:51 PM (No. 208205)
I really hate to read all the anti-public ed remarks frequently posted here. Not that they are not true in specifics experiences, but that many, many conservative public school teachers and administrators work (in the small schools in Texas, at least) with good faith and intelligence, and are effective in their jobs.
Some of our problems in Texas stem from residents who, by virtue of their date of entry, bypassed Texas history. These people will sometimes swallow without complaint such changes as "re-imagining" the Alamo to emphasize its role as a Spanish mission----and putting its importance in the Texas Revolution as a shrine to those who fought on the back burner. All in the needs of social justice, you see.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 10/15/2019 4:18:47 PM (No. 208236)
Enormous problems made even worse by the fact that, although many know nothing, they FEEL they know everything and refuse to listen to anything that differs from what they feel they know.
The little sixteen year old victim of climate change indoctrination lecturing and arrogantly scolding adults and telling them kids know better is a recent example.
Thankfully there are young people who do know and love our country. They don’t receive the coverage and accolades they deserve. May God bless them, and may the future belong to them.
This war for the hearts and and minds of our people, and, yes, the soul of our nation, will not be won to restore and preserve it without the help of the God Who blessed our Founders and Framers to build it in the first place.
His Holy Word is replete with examples of His help to those who repented and turned to Him and sought His help to heal their land.
I’m so thankful for every effort toward good being waged for our country - those we know about and those we don’t know about. But, God knows all things, and fervent prayer is the mightiest weapon that must not be ignored in this effort for good to prevail. May God have mercy and bless us.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 10/15/2019 4:30:21 PM (No. 208253)
This should not come as a surprise when truth is made relative. Your truth is not my truth so there is no right or wrong, and there is no reality. History can be anything. Truth does not matter. What a screwed up world we live in.
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