One of the biggest frauds that has been carried out against the citizenry of These United States is Public Education. What has been the product that public schools have produced for the most recent decades? Shame! Not since the late 1960's or early 1970's have we seen public education make strong academic strides in producing quality learning for most of the students. What we have seen is a race to the bottom!
During the the past four decades our schools have suffered the fate of being an experimental laboratory of "politically correct" folderol. Instead of history being a guide and lesson for our direction of learning, we allowed social engineering to gain not only a foothold, it became the sole reason for school to exist at all, in many cases.
We discarded excellence and replaced it with the mantra of excellence, but without the true meaning of the word even approached in our modern school experience. What happened to having to know how to read, write, add, subtract, know history, understand science and think? What happened to self pride, comportment, discipline, ambition, respect and spirit? While some students tolerate the mediocracy and find within themselves enough drive to get educated on their own in spite of all of the roadblocks to success; others, if not most, are embarrassingly ignorant and failed by the system!
Learning has often been relegated to presentations that bore, are uninteresting and illogical in their scope and dumbed down in their breadth and depth of content. Facts and realities for knowledge are often and mostly ignored for having students feel good about themselves whether they learn or not. The only point made for understanding is "teaching to the test"; the standardized tests that allow districts to meet some sort of public performance objective, based solely upon a test, that tells us little about what students actually learn; but make the test building company rich!
Text books are multi-million dollar expenditures of worthless paper as they get less and less factual and more and more filled with error, inacuracy, deliberate propaganda and in some cases bald faced lies! Books cannot even be believed, as they are not being edited by professionals with integrity, morals and intelligence, but only by those with credentials called Politically Correct! The corruption of knowledge has suffered greatly at the hands of the liberal progressive thought processes that are now ingrained into the fabric of our public schools.
Curricula are often bereft of the challenge presented to students only a few decades ago. Now, we don't want to have a student need to read or study outside of class as that would be unfair and asking too much. I knew that we had lost ground and that we were losing more ground every year in school when I was teaching from the mid 1970's until I retired from my public school classroom in 2006. I had changed schools within the district one year and the principal at my new school came to me at the end of the first six weeks and told me that I expected too much from my students and that I was to acquiesce to her less stringent model for teaching. I never did and she was too ignorant to know the difference. Instead, I expected even more, and to this day, it has paid dividend to those who were in my classes.
Gone are many of the programs that were preparing students for careers as working class citizens. We have filled the halls with all sort of tripe that is called by a myriad of names and given program status that would fill ears with the mindless dribble of politically correct positions on human sexuality, fairness, non-competition, political activeness, peace, policy and culture. Religion has been eradicated from our schools as the scourge that it is purported to be by the Left. We are now lost in the seas of mediocracy and the oceans of stupidity!
With the failing of our schools has come the failing of our nation; for one is the other and the other is lost. Do we have any hope of saving either? I do not know, but I do not see a way that our country can survive without the survival of education. We must have a literate populace or we are surely doomed to total failure. The way to save Liberty is the education of our young to the Truth, Morality, Discipline, and Excellence from a not too distant past. Demand sound education for our youth! We must do that to have a chance of seeing These United States remain Free.
Gary L Beasley
27 November 2011
Can you pass this 8th grade final exam from 1895?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/creative-thinkering/201111/can-you-pass-final-8th-grade-exam-1895
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