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My aunt and uncle (just a few years older than me) retired two years ago. Both said the same. He (my uncle) was considered a "right wing nut job" because he was a decorated 101st Airborne Ranger who served in Vietnam. In fact, the guy is very middle of the road politically and calm. However, he said he had to "edit" his social studies texts, as they were full of revisionist history and outright lies. His students loved him; he has several flags from Iraq, Kuwait, and Afghanistan that flew over camps sent to him by former students. Teachers like this are essentially gone.
The only hope for real education in America is home schooling and the parochial system. However, even in the parochial system, there are left wing loons. I had to call one of the high school teachers and ask him not to present "global warming" and "the dangers of fracking" as "fact" in his curriculum! Given my academic past and publication record, he could not claim the bridle of "science" as a justification for presenting his unproven, left wing opinion. At least in that system, we have the power to muzzle idiots and have them stick to education and scientific fact, not leftist opionion.
The public education system in this country is run by a gaggle of intolerant, petty leftists who don't know the first thing about critical thinking.
I've said it a thousand times before because it is true, parents with the financial means to opt out of the public system and send their kids to private schools always do.
Well, its sad to have to point it out. . .but Critical Thinking is thinking logically about an event. Its a type of education.
So apparently you haven't mastered the skill, or you wouldn't be using Cherry Pick Fallacy as a argument " fallacy of incomplete evidence is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position"
I mean really, you know how easy it is to run google to find stupid republicans and democrats doing stupid #@#.
BTW I have financial means to opt-out and go public if we want. . .but the schools here in denver tech center look fine.
Personally, the evidence suggests that there isn't a huge difference in outcomes from different schools and the difference is more related to the parents and their choices. . .of course, that is critical thinking about the situation.
Any teacher with 20+ years will say the same.
But the new teachers, which are the products of this changed system, are all gung ho to teach it and think it's great.
So it's just a matter of waiting it out until all the older teachers have left.
I suggest you do not go into the field of motivational speaking because rarely have I read anything more depressing.
The OP is clearly a victim of this failed teaching to the test trend that discourages critical thinking, hence, reading an article and lacking the ability to comprehend its content.
conservatives don't really believe in public education and never have.
First the idea that all children should be educated is something that many conservatives think is a waste of time after a certain point because they believe many children just can't learn all that much after a certain point, and we waste money on those children's education.
Also, the idea of American citizens of differing backgrounds getting together as a city or a state or a community to educate children deciding based on diverse ideas how and what those children should learn is terrifying to conservatives because they view so many other Americans as enemies out to destroy America and because they have a very narrow definition of who is a real American.
They don't want those people to have any input into how children are educated. To them courses should only be taught in certain very narrow ways touching only on certain subjects.
Any deviation is understood by conservatives as indoctrination.
Although I stand by my critic of conservatives and public education, the letter the teacher wrote has a lot to agree with. The focus on testing, the focus on holding teachers responsible so you manage their time. The focus on training for the test is all wrong.
it is a system, education is not what matters. our kids are being bred to live in a community type life. forget math and reading, lets focus on self esteem and how to solve world peace. The system is in need of male teachers. the government would go crazy if the ration was reversed. they would create incentives to get famale teachers. why dont they make an effort to make the teching profession 50% of each sex.
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! Given my academic past and publication record, he could not claim the bridle of "science" as a justification for presenting his unproven, left wing opinion. At least in that system, we have the power to muzzle idiots and have them stick to education and scientific fact, not leftist opionion.
Teacher’s Resignation Letter: ‘My Profession … No Longer Exists’---Absolutely no mention of Indoctrination Camps
