Deteriorating Education Standards
What are our students learning?
I haven’t been posting as much as usual, but I’ve been researching information that I’m certain you’ll want to know! It’s time to share some scary facts with you!
K-12 Education in the USA has been deteriorating over the last 40+ years. Now that our primary educational system is the laughing-stock of the globe, is there a plot to dumb down secondary education as well? You betcha!
The latest round in forcing political correctness would abolish requirements for SAT testing as part of the acceptance process in colleges. In the name of “diversity”, several colleges have already made SAT testing “optional”.
Once again, the plan is to lower standards so everyone can feel good about themselves.
It’s time to ask ourselves some hard questions and do some investigating.
- Is it possible that some people or groups WANT our students to be uneducated?
- If there IS a plan to dumb-down American education, who could be behind the plot?
- What purpose is served by deliberately requiring less and less from students, while making them more and more complacent?
I want to ask my fellow parents, grandparents and great-grandparents:
Are you worried about your child’s future?
Over the last several months, as I’ve researched more and more information to bring you, I’ve been learning some things that have me greatly alarmed!
I’ve only touched the ‘tip of the iceburg’ of the problems in American education in my previous posts.
It’s time for parents, teachers and taxpayers to discover what’s happening to public education, and the WHYs behind it.
While I’m gathering together more facts and theories of some of the insider secrets, I’ll reveal all the theories and hypotheses I’ve discovered along the way as well.
In the meantime, I’ll continue next with some of the suggestions my readers have shared about helping youngsters have positive learning experiences during summer vacation.
Be sure to check back daily to discover the latest info.
On the alert!
Brennan
Filed under: Education News
I thought I would recommend an article that I wrote on my blog to you after seeing the picture of My Favorite Martian at the top of the page with his chalkboard. It’s titled, “An Independence Day Thought: Change Social Studies.”
Dear Dave,
Excellent article! I heartily recoomend it to all my readers. (Just click on Dave Teacher above.)
I’m old enough that “Civics” was a required course. I hated all my History classes but I was forced to learn and now I’m grateful for it.
You are so right about our current Social Studies.
Political Correctness has taken precedence over facts.
If we don’t start educating our children to be critical thinkers, and appreciate the country they live in - it’s going to become a country that we won’t be able to appreciate.
The old saying “If we don’t learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it” has never been so compelling.
We don’t teach the lessons of the fall of the Roman Empire, or the Greek or Persian Empires - and now, the UK has removed any reference to the Holocaust from curriculum - because it offends Muslims - who claim it never happened!
We need to join forces and MAKE schools educate our children.