Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
Savvy, practical insights on where our Education Establishment went wrong and how most schools can be improved.LET'S FIX EDUCATION explains the many dysfunctional theories and methods operating within our schools. This podcast is intended for parents, teachers, and community leaders who want education reform.
Each week, LET'S FIX EDUCATION examines another problem in our public schools, such as: Constructivism. Learning styles. Sight-words. No memorization. Cooperative learning. Prior knowledge. Reform math. The dilution of knowledge. Common Core. Project-based learning. Student-centered, etc. In fact, there are DOZENS of counterproductive learning and teaching theories, all made worse by ideological motives.
Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is a novelist, artist, and education reformer. He has analyzed the problems in education for more than 30 years. Price is the author of "Saving K-12: What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?" (190 pages) His main education site is Improve-Education.org. For more information about book and author, visit Lit4u.com. Newest novels are "Frankie" (about a harmless robot) and "The Boy Who Saves The World" (about a boy who saves the world).
"Bruce Price’s SAVING K-12 is a MUST read! It is precise, concise and powerful. Action is required…for the sake of our children, our grandchildren and the future of the American Republic!” Robert W. Sweet, Jr., long-time President of The National Right to Read Foundation
Let's Fix Education / by Bruce Deitrick Price
Episode 119: Schools are dramatically more violent. Why??? (Wed., Oct. 11, 2023)
The public schools are a hell hole. Do you think the experts don't know what they're doing?
Oh, they know. They know from A-to-Z that everything they do encourages bullying and bad manners, degrades authority, dumbs down the students, and makes everybody's day miserable. They are dangerous, these so-called experts.
Most people who have been to ed school should be fired. Bring in new people from sports, entertainment, business, and the military, practical people who care about the culture and the children.
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VIOLENCE VIOLENCE VIOLENCE
Our Education Establishment follows the teachings of the great communist thinkers. The basic idea is to teach as little as possible to the peasants.
“If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.— Karl Marx
“Give me your four year olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state.” Lenin
“We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.” Lenin (Oh, so that's why CNN had to rag on Trump.)
VIOLENT VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2B8yRx5_mU
(TRANSCRIPT HAS GOOD VIDEO ABOUT EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE, 6 MINUTES)
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Episode 118 : ENCORE https://www.buzzsprout.com/1792553/episodes/13712120
Reports on the fall of Lucy Calkins. Big news. Please read if you haven't.
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Let's Fix Education explains to Americans why their schools are so bad. The people in charge prefer mediocrity because they are socialists of one kind or another. If people work together to promote real education, we'll have it.
LET'S FIX EDUCATION -- by -- Bruce Deitrick Price
Episode 119 -- Wed., Oct. 11, 2023
Schools are dramatically more violet. Why???
NBC News reports : “Major increase in the violence and bad behavior in schools."
Article in Medium states: “Educators have been sounding the alarm about an uptick in school-based violence.…Many have reported frequent brawls, physical bullying, and other forms of student-on-student aggression, including verbal and sexual intimidation and cyber-bullying. An alarming number of students have been caught with guns and other weapons on school grounds.”
The academic experts don't even try to give a useful explanation, for example: “It’s a combination of the pandemic; a lack of trust in our institutions, particularly law enforcement; the presence of guns; the toxic, divisive, contentious times we live in. They’re all interacting together.”
That’s nonsense. The main cause is: there are no repercussions, no punishment, no inconvenience, no good reason not to be violent.
I think students 100 years ago were tougher than the ones now. But the Social Contract at that time demanded law and order inside schools. Not today. Our schools are apparently run by far-left ideologues who concluded that dumbing kids down is the best way to gain more control.
Consider the Summer of Love when thousands of businesses and homes were burned and looted. I thought at the time this was the strangest political miscalculation imaginable. Who would vote for a political party which promises to burn down your city?
One theory was these extremists hoped to goad Trump into a miscalculation. He would send tanks into Seattle or whatever. But Trump stayed cool and the professional agitators stayed crazy.
I suspect that the people running Democrat cities collude to keep unrest at a high pitch. The Left cannot escape its long-time embrace of violence. Look at these quotes by the most famous Communist leaders:
Marx said, “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”
Stalin said: “Not a single problem of the class struggle has ever been solved in history except by violence.” Also: “The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is control won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, control that is unrestricted by any laws.”
Mao: “Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
These VIP’s appear to be sociopaths. Mean, nasty, and cynical. There’s only one type of human that they like, the fearful and uncertain, people who can be pushed one way and then another until there's nothing left but a willing slave.
I believe the purpose of CRT and BLM was to make black kids bitter and pugnacious. That doesn't help them but it makes the school’s job twice as difficult.
The bottom line is, if you want better schools, if you want to save a couple hundred billion dollars a year, announce that henceforth violence will not be tolerated. Bad manners are not acceptable. Anybody throwing a punch will have to spend a day locked in a jail cell.
Progressive professors of education have always been trying to reduce education. Now they’ve found a quick way to destroy the whole system. NBC10 Philadelphia reported: “There Will Be No Teachers Left': Philly Educators Talk Quitting, Violence”
My guess now is that the experts in charge think they can use the violence in the cities and schools to create instability and then make the public more amenable to change and control. First weak, then woke.
The Education Establishment ruins the kids intellectually and then ruins the character of the kids. No business would want them. Would the army want them? So what are our public schools now but welfare factories?
Do you want real schools? 1) Outlaw violence. 2) And bring back a knowledge-based curriculum for everybody.
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WORSE THAN EVER: too much violence; good summary; less than 6 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PI8maYz78Y