Friday, November 1, 2019

There's An Educational Crisis in the US. Does Anybody Care?

Peggy Carr, the associate commissioner for the National Center for Education Statistics, said, "Over the past decade there has been no progress in math or reading scores." She further noted that "We see lower-achieving students made score declines in all of the assessments." Read lower-achieving students to mean black and Hispanic kids.

The educational system is so horrendous in Detroit that a former public high school graduate has sued his previously attended district for failing to educate him to a point he couldn't pass any of the courses at his community college.

All we ever hear from school officials and education advocates is that we need to increase school spending.

Why? So we can produce more kids who cannot read? Kids who can't read and are uneducated end up living life at the bottom.

Note to Paul Ryan: Unless a kid has a great cross-over dribble or can run a 4.4 40-yard dash and become a professional athlete, the best anti-poverty program is an education.

Teach these kids to read, write, add, subtract, multiply, and divide at the appropriate grade level and make parents step up to fulfill their responsibility and role in the education of their kids.

Stop letting school boards dumb down the curriculum that fills kids' heads with useless social justice nonsense and expect more from our kids.

https://townhall.com/columnists/sheriffdavidclarkeret/2019/10/31/theres-an-educational-crisis-in-the-us-does-anybody-care-n2555680

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