Monday, February 29, 2016

Education Matters 1

There are a lot of items here.  Please scan the headers to locate ones of interest to you.  I promise you these are factual...I do not make up anything shared with you.  While the below items mostly cover negative issues not all educational institutions fit the profile discussed.  But unfortunately far too many do.  The mainstream media does not report much on the state of serious problems that in fact plague so many of our government controlled public schools and dysfunction that resides in so many of our colleges and universities.  So, I have chosen to share with you some of the items I have run across.

This item is right on and sets the stage for the ones that follow.  It is a very good synopsis of the plight of modern education...which in many cases is mindlessness wasting of student's minds.  Please read.   Quote: "In short, the people in charge of education take a wrecking ball to K-12 and the next generation. There are scores of examples of systematic razing.  It's hard to say that any particular one is the worst, because all are interconnected and reinforce each other."  And, "Almost every few days, there are articles on the internet about why schools are bad and how they can be improved.  The bizarre part (for me) is that the writers typically assume that the Education Establishment actually wants to do a good job but, inexplicably, can't quite figure out how.  With this premise, nothing makes sense.  Could so-called experts be so incompetent?  I don't think so.  If you start with the assumption that they are deliberately razing content and kids, then everything makes sense." http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/11/department_of_education_you_raise_em_we_raze_em.html

Professor Mike Adams takes on and squashes a sanctimonious group of fellow university professors espousing their commitment to educational diversity and inclusion.  Quote: "I received your recent email on educational inclusiveness and diversity with great interest. I have written three books, spoken on 88 university campuses, and written approximately 1000 columns on the subject in the last 13 years. This was the first time I’ve ever been contacted by your organization. Therefore, I assumed you were writing about something important and that you had something meaningful and intelligent to say. Unfortunately, after reading your short correspondence, I realize that I was mistaken on both counts. That’s a harsh assessment so please allow me to explain:"
http://townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/2016/02/16/the-faculty-backward-network-n2119822/page/full

This item examines the subject of why black teachers are leaving their positions. Quote: "These higher quit rates appear to stem from poor working conditions, such as a “lack of autonomy” and little “input into school decisions.” In other words, the suffocating system created by teachers’ unions and politicians and bureaucrats and ivory tower educational theorists isn’t much fun to teach within."    http://townhall.com/columnists/pauljacob/2015/09/20/fleeing-from-diversity-n2054370/page/full  And, it is sad indeed when good teachers quit because of the one size fits all Washington bureaucracy's inane regulations and coercive tactics.   http://conservativetribune.com/young-teacher-epic-letter/? 

Quote: "The list is too long to quickly catalog. Here are just a few. Christmas is now Winter Recess and Easter is Spring Break. Many schools have banned any Halloween activities entirely. Competitive sports are banned in many primary schools in favor of team efforts where “everyone” wins. Dodge ball is disappearing from playgrounds. Children are suspended for nibbling a pop tart into a gun shape. Man caused climate change is presented as fact. Social Studies texts list any and all wrongs committed by the United States, but portray Islam in favorable terms. Students can gain access to birth control without parental notification. White privilege is now presented in a way to make white students feel guilty about their race. Again, the list of how liberal/progressive policies are used to indoctrinate public school students is terrifyingly long and growing."    http://eaglerising.com/30542/whats-wrong-with-liberals-blame-public-education/

Think the US literacy rate is good?  Failing education and a collapsing culture are killing literacy.  Check this out. Quote: "Thomas Jefferson said, “Educate and inform the whole mass of the people…They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”   I look about and see America on the downslide with our liberties being the first things to go over the proverbial cliff.  Wise advice abounds but if only 13% of our voting-age citizens can read, evaluate, and act upon complex explanations and suggestions, it is no wonder that we are losing both our liberties and our country." https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/02/linda-schrock-taylor/schools-let-us/ 

Quote:  "A recent report found that American public schools were wasting millions to train their teachers about… WHITE PRIVILEGE. A San Francisco based education consulting company by the name of Pacific Educational Group (PEG) has been working with over 100 different local school districts in an effort to train teachers through white guilt. The company has made its money through convincing school districts that our system of education is biased against minority students and that it unfairly benefits white students. However, the company tells its customers that not all is lost because they offer a training course that will help the local districts “fix” the problem.  Sadly, the message that PEG sells is one rife with racism, excuse-making, blame-casting and radically ‘progressive’ philosophies. As an example, at their national conferences over the last few years, their core speakers have been a veritable “Who’s Who” of radical liberal supporters, of the infamous, terrorist Bill Ayers."    http://eaglerising.com/30853/school-districts-spend-millions-to-train-teachers-about-white-privilege/

This item confirms what many of us have been saying.  No wonder Bernie has so much support from university students.  Indoctrination at American colleges and universities has been ongoing for a long time. http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26066/

Quote: "While it is rightly so that most Americans are focused on the presidential election at this moment, the real battle ground to fight for America's future is in the classrooms. If we want to make America great again, we need to pay attention to what's being taught to our youth, how they are being taught and push back against the progressive indoctrination."    http://townhall.com/columnists/helenraleigh/2016/02/13/searching-for-an-explanation-for-bernies-rising-look-no-further-than-classrooms-n2118914/page/full

What does this tell you?   91% of Harvard professors are leftists/progressives.  This proves that that they care little for honesty, decency, truth, justice, rule of law, sound economics, civil discourse, fair play, equality for all and they must agree that our country needs to be destroyed.  Leftist/progressive propaganda has been the nature of instruction in colleges and universities for many years now.  How they can think what they think is good and wholesome is beyond me.     http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26185/

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