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The secret of education is that it isn't really as effective as we'd want it to be.
Good students are born smarter, and learn easily because their brains are able to learn.
Society expects the impossible from teachers, to make middling and below students into high achieving students. When students fail to achieve, teachers are among the first to get the blame. When in reality the success of a teacher has more to do with the composition of her student body than her abilities as an educator. It's a no-win situation
A lot of teachers "drink the kool-aid" that society sells about the transformative power of education. When they start teaching and see the same patterns repeat, with no ability to change things, they become disillusioned.
Equity practices are a form of rebellion against a society that expects the impossible, that expects teachers to make everyone above average. Teachers know there's only one way to make everyone equal, and if you're honest I think that's what most Americans want out of the education system. They definitely don't want schools that select for an elite. So teachers fulfill their mandate from society to make everyone equal by making everyone equally mediocre.
As the mental disease known as woke and the hateful divisive doctrine of Critical Race Theory spread like Covid more and more institutions once trusted are now infected.
Public schools, once thought of as places where parents could send their children to be nurtured and taught the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic to carry them into the real world, are now becoming indoctrination centers.
Every day some new story breaks about how schools and teachers are infecting kids with ideas of hate, divisiveness, and dubious values.
And while a few teachers try to resist the push of CRT/woke doctrine or resign refusing to promulgate this trash, most seem to have succumbed to the infection and now embrace it.
From Loundon County, where parents must sign a Non-disclosure agreement to even see the CRT based curriculum being shoved down to San Diego where teachers were forced to attend Diversity training and admit to their white shame in spirit killing black and brown children.
Teachers: once trusted mentors to distrusted indoctrination facilitators?
Do you trust teachers anymore?
There are 131,000 +/- public K-12 schools with 3.5 million teachers i the US.
Seems rather silly to use a broad brush to paint all alike, based on media reports of relatively anecdotal incidents.
I've always had access to the curricula of my kids. All you have to do is show up at parent night.
Or look on the teacher's website.
Or look at your kid's tests.
Not that hard.
It does, however, require more work than sitting in your basement noodling around on the internet.
That's what most parents used to think. Then came COVID and remote learning, all of a sudden you could see the crazy **** they were being indoctrinated with that did not show up anywhere at the PTA meetings
As kid, we learned about how the communists were indoctrinating the kids. Today I am hearing about how the communists are indoctrinating the kids.
One can call them marxists or socialists or democratic socialists, social justice warriors or whatever, they are still communists. A spade by any other name is still a spade.
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That's what most parents used to think. Then came COVID and remote learning, all of a sudden you could see the crazy **** they were being indoctrinated with that did not show up anywhere at the PTA meetings
I'm not talking about PTA meetings. I'm talking about looking at the teacher's website, reading the books assigned to the students or offered as an option for a book report, (or at least looking on Amazon for one moment to see what the content is), looking at the homework, looking at the tests. Attending the parent night where you meet the teacher/s.
There ARE parents who can tell you what their children are working on in school, and parents who wouldn't recognize their child's elementary teacher if they bumped into her in the grocery store.
So if you care what your child is learning and getting exposed to, there are methods to do that. More than there ever have been.
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And what does the demise of the American Nuclear Family have to do with ones politics or the price of chicken in Walmart?
It was apparently a response to a poster who is stating that women are too stupid to be able to think rationally, and are easily misled, and this poster is agreeing with that, and saying good thing dads are around to counter this deficit in intelligence in mothers in the home.
Geez.
Speak for yourselves, women who think they're not capable of thinking for themselves, and not for the rest of us please.
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