So many of America's public
schools are inflicting stress and harm on their students. This piece
explains. Quote: "Now a 13-year study from the Connecticut Children’s
Mental Health Center in Hartford, proves that schools are literally
driving our kids crazy.1
It’s insane. Children committing
suicide because they can’t stand the pressures of school? Yes, it’s
true. The suicide rate among 10 to 14 year olds has doubled since 2007.
And for girls in that age group, the suicide rate has tripled over the
past 15 years." And,
"Boston College psychology professor, Peter Gray, looked closely at this new data and found that children’s mental health is directly related to school attendance. Meaning the more time kids spend in school, the sicker and crazier they get.
Dr. Gray found that children’s
psychiatric ER visits fall dramatically in the summer recess and rise
again once school begins. The spike for danger to kids and the incidence
of suicide is highest in May, at the extreme end of the year of
academic pressures.
This is a sad commentary on the
state of education in our country. Quote: "The same human failings that
create oppressive government can corrode other institutions. Higher
education has become a painful example, dominated for decades by the
political left. We are seeing the same kind of blinkered egotism,
divorcement from reality and corruption of principles that one sees in
one-party governments or outright dictatorships. Consider just a few of
the legitimate complaints that have been piling up in the past 20 or 30
years. Many of these have their source in well-intentioned left-ish
ideas that went seriously awry: the proliferation of
majors that hold little to no possibility of meaningful employment; the
erosion of academic standards; the encouragement of sexual license and devastating “
hookup culture” and “
rape culture” issues; the elimination of
in loco parentis and creation of a warped quasi-legal state in its place; the de facto criminalization of
student and faculty disciplinary matters and denials of due process; the creation of inflammatory and absurdly expansive concepts like “
trigger warnings, “
safe spaces,”
"privilege” and “
cultural appropriation.” And then there is
exploding tuition that has outpaced inflation and even the costs of medical care."
https://townhall.com/columnists/laurahollis/2017/04/27/the-left-has-dominated-academia-for-too-long-n2318927?
This item serves as a warning that far too many of our public schools
are bad for our children. Quote: "With that new focus on getting all
students to achieve at least at a basic level came programs like
Georgia’s Hope Scholarship and No Child Left Behind.
The results of those programs
were the tremendous devaluation of high school diplomas and college
degrees – results which have brought us a terribly high rate of college
grads who are either unemployable or cannot find work in their chosen
field of study without obtaining a Master’s Degree. This is no fault of
the majority of educators or administrators who fight the good fight
every day, in a mostly vain attempt to overcome the obstacles placed in
front of them by both a failed system and a severely deteriorated family
unit. That anyone can find success via our system is a testament to the
tenacity and caring of those people – and to the few parents who still
expect their children to work hard and don’t blame educators for their
kids’ failures. But despite those educators’ best efforts, the system
is still a failure. And to that failure is now being added a complete
rewriting of basic philosophy, faith, logic, and biology. Ideas like
absolute truth, debate, intellect, and the scientific method are being
sacrificed on the altar of varying agendas – the most vocal being LBGT,
or LGBTQIA, or whatever we’re up to now; it is a moniker which becomes
more fluid and less understandable by the day."
http://theresurgent.com/public-schools-its-past-time-to-get-out/?
The education establishment has
done this on purpose. Started a long time ago and is part of the
dumbing down of students about American history. Their intent has been
and remains to only reveal history that supports liberal/progressive
narratives. That notion can be challenged, I know, but there is plenty
of evidence that it is true. This piece provides only a piece of
that substantial truth.
https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/06/16/four-ways-parents-can-fill-in-the-blanks-when-schools-fail-to-teach-history/
Why do you think the left works so hard to eliminate factual history by
removing symbols of southern US history? Or, eliminate or obscure
the history of our nation's founding. Or teach about our form of
government, the why and how it came about and contrast its goodness with
other forms of government. When I grew up Civics was a required
subject...thanks to progressive reformers, no longer. Removing
historical monuments and content from text books does not eliminate
history, it only skews history. That is unconscionable, unethical and
terrible, terrible policy.
This adds to the discussion in
the previous item. Praise is heaped on Rachel Carson for she is an
environmentalist icon. Building progressive narratives forbids anything
that could detract from their vaunted icons. But, the unfortunate
truth for both Rachel and environmentalist is that she caused DDT to be
banned globally. As a result the trend of containing malaria ended and
millions died as a consequence. While she certainly deserves some
praise for her contributions it is patently wrong to ignore the truth of
the whole story. History is what it is, the good, the bad, the ugly.
It needs to be understood by everyone.
https://fee.org/articles/millions-died-thanks-to-the-mother-of-environmentalism/?
Despite left leaning protestor's
irrational and irresponsible behavior Betsy DeVos, Secretary of
Education, is a true winner that deserves praise from all quarters.
This item explains. Quote: "Parents know what's best for their
children. Survey after survey show the majority of minority voters in
America support school choice. For example, The Black Alliance for
Educational Options poll in 2015 showed the majority of African-American
voters surveyed support charter schools –
Tennessee 67%, Louisiana 65%, New Jersey 65%, Alabama 54%. An
American Federation for Children poll
in 2016 shows 75 percent of Latinos support school choice. Betsy
DeVos’ critics are the ones who are tone deaf to these voters' plea for
change. If they think their heckling, protesting, shouting, booing and
shaming will force Secretary DeVos to change course, they do not know
her at all. Betsy DeVos is the "iron" lady in America's education field.
She has given 30 years of her time to advocate for school choice.
There's no way she is changing course now. Her perseverance should be
good news to all parents who want to choose the best education solution
for their children."
https://townhall.com/columnists/helenraleigh/2017/05/13/hats-off-to-iron-betsy-n2326110?
Higher education has long
forsaken its primary mission of educating young people with exposure to a
broad range of ideas and helping them learn to think for themselves.
Today these once great enterprises are in many cases, especially in the
social sciences, propaganda arms of the political left's intent to turn
our country into a socialistic hell hole. This provides insight.
Quote: "From safe spaces to trigger warnings to cries for
reparations for black students to
segregated “privilege” workshops,
many of today’s college campuses are steeped in a frenzy of political
correctness." And, "“Properly educated children who arrived at one of
these college campuses would be able to mop the floor with these nutty
activists posing as ‘educators’ and professors – logically,
philosophically, and rhetorically,” Newman declared. “The fact that so
many indoctrinated children succumb to the kookery of these colleges is a
damning indictment of the K-12 system. “For instance, if these
students had been trained in logic or philosophy, they would instantly
see through the irrational and often contradictory absurdities pushed by
these fringe professors. If the students had been taught real history,
they would instantly recognize the lies and distortions being promoted.
But unfortunately, K-12 ‘education’ in America today is basically a
giant exercise in dumbing down and indoctrination that renders its
victims susceptible to the kind of mass lunacy and tyranny that has
overtaken our supposed institutions of higher learning. The American
people deserve better – and that needs to start in the K-12
classroom.”
http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/a-real-look-at-campus-hysteria-and-indoctrination-coming-in-2018/
