The Slow Decline of Public Education

It all began in the sixties with JFK's "Harvard brain trust".

Government schools in all fifty states would be the envy of the former German Democratic Republic. They are nothing but daycare centers and indoctrination centers for socialism, communism and anti-Americanism.... but they are "free," aren't they, parents?

You mean the ejucation that the Learers are not Learing?

It began with the revamping of the curriculum. Social Studies in place of History, Geography and Civics. Language Arts in place of Reading, English and Spelling. Let us not forget "The New Math"

Not so sure education is declining slowly. We read more and more every month about poorer and poorer test scores. Johnny still can't read and now Johnny can't do math either.......but seems Johnny can have sex with the teacher! Surely, that's more fun than learning those ABC's.

There was a controversy at my Catholic high school at the end of my junior year in 1971. We had a new principle that year and at the end of the spring semester he fired almost twenty teachers, many who had been at the school for five to ten years. It was very upsetting, and the subsequent parent meeting had to be moved from the gym to the football field bleachers. The firings held. Many of my classmates, including myself, were not sure we wanted to return to the school for our senior year. My mother allowed me to spend the day at the local public high school with my friends from Girl Scouts. That was an eye-opener! Even back then there was no classroom discipline. In every class the students who wanted to learn clustered around the teacher's desk, maybe a dozen. Then there was a "DMZ" of empty desks in the middle. The other twenty or so students congregated in the back of the room talking, laughing, and making lewd drawings on the back wall blackboard. Not one teacher or adult challenged my presence in the school or their classes. I went home with a great appreciation of the sacrifice my parents made to send all three of us girls to twelve years of Catholic schools. I happily returned to my high school with a much greater appreciation for the gifts I was receiving.

I realized how poor the education was when my younger son, now 48, was watching a contestant game show on MTV. By the way that channel is what contributed to the downfall of our children. But the question on the game show was related to the American Revolution. The answer was Bunker Hill. My son didn't know and none of the contestants knew - and the MC of the show looked offstage and said "....these questions are too hard." I knew then we were in trouble.

Problems with public education are not new. In July 1969, in a group of three busloads of Boy Scouts headed from Middle Tennessee to the National Jamboree in the Idaho panhandle, I sat next to an 18-year-old recent graduate of Nashville's Maplewood HS who was stone illiterate. Somehow, he had a high school diploma, but could not read a word. At a truck stop while the bus was at the fuel pump, he went inside, and emerged with one of those 85c sexpot paperbacks before taking the seat next to me. He opened the book, put four right fingers underneath the first line, the elbowed me, asking me what it said. Just out of eight years of private grammar school and probably performing several years above eighth grade, I was gobsmacked. "You mean you can't read that?" "I need help." "I guess you do!" Then I read the first three nasty pages to him before seeing another Scout heading toward the rest room at the rear of the bus. Musical chair rules on the full bus! I leapt up to claim the empty seat, leaving it to the Scout with the popping bladder to be forced into that seat, and have to read paperback porn to that Maplewood "graduate," who was, incidentally, a Star Scout at 18. I was an Eagle at 13 (the year before), and out of the Scouts at 15, because I had adolescence, driving a car, dating, scholarship, and high school golf to attend to before college. Somehow, that fellow got passed through twelve years of primary and secondary school without even learning to read at a first grade level. That shows you how dedicated those schools were.

1. Delete and PROSECUTE Teachers Union Members for Child Abuse! 2. Force Universities to hire 50/50 Conservative/Liberal Professors and entire Administration or lose ALL Student Loans, Grants and all other handouts!

We spend tons of money on education and the kids are pushed through the system, many of whom cannot read, write, or do basic arithmetic. The defense from the teacher's union is that we don't spend enough money on the kids. Get rid of the union, get rid of the Department of Education, and give control of teaching back to the states. The blue states will still screw things up, but other states will not.

Children learn to “doodle” and the public school system calls it art. The answer to disruptive children is more recess. Perpetuating factors, such as, a teacher now has a class of a 100 children and only some can do anything at their level and he is expected to advance them ALL forward, the choice is now to go back before going forward. The students never catch up to their grade level, but will be passed to the next level. Parents are accepting of this, because they lived it. Teachers not only get their high school diploma, but they go on to get a college degree, and the cycle repeats, but it is weaker than the previous one. People with education degrees truly believe they are the intellectuals in the room, they “believe” (in the same way one would wish upon a star) in their superiority. They studied Gardner parents did not, therefore they know better for your child. Parents do not question it, they are to busy with their own lives to worry about their children’s education. Far easier to believe in the system they learned from than rock the boat. Mythology and other religions are taught in the school system, and not just for historical context, IF Christianity is taught historically, it is taught as an evil and not a good. Pray, and pray hard, that the Trump administration can dismantle the public education system at the federal level and that good people start filling school board seats to steer education in the right direction.

Slow? Ol' peanuthead kicked the downfall into high gear when he signed the department of education in to give the feds control over education instead of the individual states. EVERY metric of education has dropped like a damn rock since its adaptation.

I'm sure the author means long decline.

Thanks to the educator’s unions today’s students have been indoctrinated in pronouns, GLBTQ+ Rights, Transgenderism, White Guilt and DEI. They haven’t been wasting much time on reading, writing and mathematics.

Some teachers are inept, some are pretty evil, but even the best teacher is only as good as their school administrator and the system supervisor, as well as many parents who are horrible in ways we have all seen growing up. Stop, remove or reform all those factors, and maybe the decent teachers can teach, instead of wondering which 'student' will attack them or what new 'guidelines' will be forced on them by their principal or some idiot politicians.