Episode 133: Don't Be Their Accomplice (Wed., Jan. 17, 2024)
The wrong people are in charge of our schools. You know they are not nice people because they are always trying to dumb down the schools.
My main request to everyone: don't help these unscrupulous people. Obstruct them if you can.
The best thing is to learn more about the bogus theories and methods
now found throughout our public schools.
Understand how they actually work to dumb down the students.
If you know why we need phonics, you're halfway home.
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>>>>>>NOTE REGARDING "EPISODE ARTWORK"
There is an actual book titled "Grifters, Frauds, and Crooks"
by Richard Estep.
Properly, there would be a fat chapter on Shenanigans in K-12.
Just saying.
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LET'S FIX EDUCATION -- by -- Bruce Deitrick Price
Episode 133 -- Wed., Jan. 17, 2024
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Don't Be Their Accomplice
More than a century ago, John Dewey and his socialist colleagues initiated a clever plan to reshape our society, by first taking control of the ed schools, indoctrinating the young teachers, and then having them change the next generation of Americans.
Dewey and his group claimed they were building a better public school. What they were really building was a crooked house, from foundation to roof.
So here we are today with vastly bloated budgets but less and less positive results. This happened because John Dewey and his social engineers put a higher value on creating cooperative children than on creating educated children.
As a result of this bias, our Education Establishment tends to select inferior methods throughout K-12 schools. For example, they prefer Whole Word to teach reading; they prefer New Math and Reform Math to teach arithmetic; and they prefer Constructivism to teach facts and knowledge. These are sloppy, counterproductive ways to teach. Naturally many children don’t do well.
An Education Establishment warped by ideology is likely to get bad results, that's a safe prediction. But there’s a second part of the equation. Many powerful people in our society permit the Education Establishment to get away with their mischief. Here's a suggestion for everyone to consider: don't be their accomplice.
If you are a leader in a cultural institution of any kind and you don't use your institution to fight for better practices in our K-12 schools, you are an accomplice.
If you are a politician who endorses or even accepts Common Core, you are an accomplice.
If you are an editor in the media and you don’t investigate the dysfunctional practices at the local schools, you are an accomplice.
if you are part of the Chamber of Commerce and you’re not pushing the local schools to do better, especially in reading, you are an accomplice.
If you are a teacher and you let sight-words and other ineffective methods be used in your classroom, you are an accomplice.
if you are a community leader and you don’t take a close look at all the weak methods embedded in the local schools, you are an accomplice.
The Education Establishment can’t do a mediocre job by itself. It needs your support, especially if you are a wealthy, successful, or powerful person. If you support bad practices in K-12 schools, or look the other way, you are a big part of the problem.
John Dewey and his successors up to this day are engaged in an ideological quest. Millions of children are damaged, future citizens are stunted. No American should put up with this. Don’t be an accomplice.
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ADDENDUM: as noted, if there's a choice between phonics which works and sight-words, which don't work, our school masters will invariably pick the inferior method. In such situations you have a fairly easy choice between efficient and defective.
But nowadays we confront a great variety of more subtle choices. Every day there are momentous developments going on in the world: events, discoveries, weather, wars, speeches, holidays, whatever you like. All of these can be used to educate children.
But the schools are so intent on carefully limiting and manipulating every dose of education; and they don't want anything getting in the way of CRT, SEL, and DEI.
If there's a factory a few blocks away, the school will probably pretend not to notice. There's a lot of interesting information you could teach in any kind of factory. How is the work divided, what raw materials are used, when were these products invented, where did they come from?
Use the world to teach more about the world. It's so obvious, only our education establishment would pretend to miss the point.
Instead of continually dumbing down K-12 school, our experts should work to find new ways to make learning easier.
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