What Our Children Learn In School
Power Line,
by
John Hinderaker
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
10/10/2020 4:38:14 AM
Our public schools are run, for the most part, by liberal administrators, and teachers are drawn, usually, from the lowest quadrant of academic ability among college graduates. There are exceptions, of course, but the overall level of instruction in the public schools is abysmal. And that isn’t the worst of it: teachers who are marginally able, at best, to teach the subjects for which they are nominally responsible often devote themselves to political indoctrination instead.
Most such forays into left-wing mythology go unreported, but occasionally an enterprising kid turns on his phone and records a teacher’s rant. That happened a few weeks ago
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chumley 10/10/2020 7:08:31 AM (No. 567931)
I am an employee at a large company and I resent the hell out of it when they put up even more cameras. Just because I hired in there does not mean I surrendered any rights. I am still an American. I feel bad for cops who have to wear video gear for their entire shift, and the same for gas station employees. I've been chided by people for that belief. Apparently it is chic to be owned by someone.
This is a big problem though. The teachers have been pushing their communism for two generations now, with impunity. They have created massive numbers of welfare pigs and drones, and fear nothing because of their union. Want to see sheer terror? Talk to a school administrator about firing a teacher. Maybe its time to saddle them with the big brotherism they support for the rest of us.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
smokincol 10/10/2020 7:29:28 AM (No. 567950)
it's the curriculum that the teachers have to teach every day that is the problem. it is skewed to reflect all of the non-basic elements of our nation's history, which is where the real problem lies in the education process. the general studies like English(don't know what they call it now) and science and math are kind of non-negotiable because except for math these are usually cast in steel. science is now being diluted with more and more non- important science matters. the people in classrooms are mostly of the volunteer element and have not much formal education and for the most part public schools are baby sitting factories. discipline is lax or non-existent and if a teacher does put their foot down they are put down by the people in the administration who are so liberal their underpants have the hammer and sickle sewn on them. it is tragic that the public schools have been changed so drastically.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 10/10/2020 7:31:47 AM (No. 567955)
Don't know much about history
Don't know much biology
Don't know much about a science book
Don't know much about the French I took
Sam Cooke
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Krause 10/10/2020 9:07:22 AM (No. 568065)
That person should be fired on the spot. Make an example. This can't go on.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 10/10/2020 9:48:45 AM (No. 568136)
One niece has been home schooling her children, doesn't want them in government schools. The other was in rural GA and the school was OK, but had to move and has gone to a home schooling situation in the new city.
I am pleased that the kids are not in government schools.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
moebellini3 10/10/2020 10:10:39 AM (No. 568163)
We no longer have schools we have indoctrination clinics. This is the same brain washing that goes on in China and North Korea. People talk about the good ol days. Well, they were the good ol days. Why? Because we were taught reading, writhing, arithmetic and history. We said the Pledge Of Allegiance every morning and we respected authority. Over 40% of kids in democratic run cities like Chicago, Detroit and Baltimore never make it through high school and cannot pass a simple math test. Their schools are war zones. Why? Because dem/communists refuse, refuse to allow school choice. They are against voucher programs, charter schools and school choice. Why? Because school choice will give these poor kids an opportunity to get an education. To a dem/communist, that is dangerous. An education allows them to leave the plantation. You see, keep'em dumb and they can't leave the plantation. We're dealing with sick freakin people. Think about it and think hard about it. Wake up....
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
HonestDon 10/10/2020 10:25:31 AM (No. 568180)
The overthrow of our constitutional republic began in the government schools decades ago and, if we are to survive as a free nation, our defense has to start there. School board used to be responsive to parents, PTAs, etc., but now mostly lister to the leftist unions that run the schools. National and Statewide elections get plenty of attention, but it's the school boards the need to be scrutinized. WE NEED TO DO OUR HOMEWORK!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MDConservative 10/10/2020 10:29:15 AM (No. 568186)
If you are a parent interested in your child's education, this article should be needless. You'd already know. And you'd have either made yourself known, or enrolled your child in another school, or home schooled. But that costs time and money...and I'm busy and got my mortgage, car, witeless and credit card payments to make, not to mention I'm a single parent. And I vote for nothing but those endorsed by the teachers' union for school board...they know best. After all, they're dedicated to teaching and learning despite wretched classrooms, lack of supplies and awful pay. Please, school, teach my children values...
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jinx 10/10/2020 10:31:49 AM (No. 568192)
Yep. Something is wrong with our schools today. Our ancestors learned to read, write, and do math in a one room school house with students of all ages. They went out and built railroads and dams and invented the wonderful things we enjoy today. Their legacy is never-ending. Today's students have state of the art schools and can't learn to read or do simple math. Instead, they learn all about sex and drugs and self-esteme and the liberal agenda. We need to go back to Dick and Jane. At least they would learn to read.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Republic Can 10/10/2020 11:44:46 AM (No. 568289)
At our 47th year class reunion near Buffalo, NY, I learned that while I had traveled, learned, served and survived well for those 47 years, my best high school friend had taught 8th grade Health for 30 years. His last words to me that evening were, "Dave, you've always wanted too much from life."
So I climbed back on my Harley and rode back to Southern Maryland, never looking back.
I think once a teacher has lost his/her curiosity, they should just walk away. I don't want them telling my kids what to expect in life.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 10/10/2020 11:52:02 AM (No. 568297)
When the schools have become propaganda and indoctrination mills, it is time to step up and do some perhaps uncomfortable but effective things.
Number one is school choice. When parents can walk away from public schools and take their kids share of public money to go to a private school, it will break the back of the liberal education establishment. Guess who will benefit the most? Poor kids who are trapped in a low end education system that tells them the REAL path to success, education, work ethic, reliability, and a good job paid for by a company is a BAD thing. So many kids graduating from these schools think that the American dream is a dead end and is unavailable to them. That is, of course, a self fulfilling prophecy. Now only government can "save" them, which is EXACTLY what liberals want, downtrodden drones.
Other things is to focus on education of core elements instead of schools being Social Work Central. Problem students should not be mixed into classrooms with other kids, robbing them of their education while the teachers time is sucked up by the problem child and the class is disrupted.
There should also be a rigorous evaluation system with representatives from outside the school district. Salaries might need to be tied to school academic success. When 50% of kids are not proficient in Math and English there is an enormous problem with that school.
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