The pandemic and the state of education in the US

[anon_5e8aassgcbjz1]

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/st...kely-widened-racial-economic-achievement-gap/

We’re going to lose a generation of kids over moronic decisions like this and others. Our country’s education system has got to be worked on. Our culture isn’t tough enough on the average kid to push them to do better, and they simply get shuffled along with their papers stamped. You can’t tell somebody they’re bad at something and need to get better without it being an indictment of their worth as a human being. Crazy. To fix it, your options are to turn the GQP, a party that embraces religious fundamentalism and a disdain for the intellectual, or the Democrats, a party beholden to teachers’ unions and interest groups that will jump through flaming hoops of fire to feel offended by one thing or another.

 

[Cocks are Number 1]

At the onset of Covid, we put our 2 boys into a private Christian School, and we’ll never look back. They never closed the doors, and my boys are thriving. Worth every cent.

My wish, is that every child would have the means to receive such an incredibly well rounded, great foundation of an education.

 

[clempzenbill]

Christians are one group in the GOP. The GOP is controlled by secularists. The GOP is corrupt to the core, as are the Dems. It’s basically a uni-party with competing factions.

DC is very much like an organized crime syndicate. All the laws are written by government lawyers in cooperation with corporate or special interest lawyers for the benefit of themselves. Most of the what the Fed does isn’t specified in the Constitution and is therefore the right of the States. We are an authoritarian socialist country now, on our way to totalitarianism

Short of a revolution, the public education system isn’t getting fixed. It’s completely controlled by the government, unions and school boards, and its use is to indoctrinate, not educate in the classical sense. Parents have virtually no control over curriculum Which is why home schooling, private schooling and charter schools are growing rapidly. Students are taught leftist secular humanist ideology and to obey and not question authority. They are not taught critical thinking or to come up with their own solutions. The vast majority of educators in public universities self identify when polled as leftists (progressives).

As far as “religious fundamentalists “ that’s pretty much 98% of the signers of the Declaration and Constitution and those served us pretty well as the foundation of the greatest nation in history so I’m not sure why they are a problem to you.

 

[anon_5e8aassgcbjz1]

Christians are one group in the GOP. The GOP is controlled by secularists. The GOP is corrupt to the core, as are the Dems. It’s basically a uni-party with competing factions.

DC is very much like an organized crime syndicate. All the laws are written by government lawyers in cooperation with corporate or special interest lawyers for the benefit of themselves. Most of the what the Fed does isn’t specified in the Constitution and is therefore the right of the States. We are an authoritarian socialist country now, on our way to totalitarianism

Short of a revolution, the public education system isn’t getting fixed. It’s completely controlled by the government, unions and school boards, and its use is to indoctrinate, not educate in the classical sense. Parents have virtually no control over curriculum Which is why home schooling, private schooling and charter schools are growing rapidly. Students are taught leftist secular humanist ideology and to obey and not question authority. They are not taught critical thinking or to come up with their own solutions. The vast majority of educators in public universities self identify when polled as leftists (progressives).

As far as “religious fundamentalists “ that’s pretty much 98% of the signers of the Declaration and Constitution and those served us pretty well as the foundation of the greatest nation in history so I’m not sure why they are a problem to you.

Many of the Founders were deists or strongly influenced by deist thought, as close to being a secularist or an atheist as you could get at the time.

Jefferson is well known to have been a deist. He rejected the divinity of Jesus and the legitimacy of miracles. He was attacked as an atheist for it.

Ben Franklin, also a deist.

Advocacy of the separation of church and state is not the work of religious fundamentalists.

The irony of the religious saying that secularism or atheism encourages people not to question authority is immense. I wonder who prosecuted Galileo for the audacity to claim the earth orbited the sun. To the extend that secular regimes are authoritarian, it is often because they fall into the same folly as theocratic religion: presupposing that the party (god) has all the answers and combatting any legitimate question of its authority, wisdom, or worth. Western liberal democracy thrives because it embraces secularism and rejects the religious outlook.

 

[tigerworx]

Christians are one group in the GOP. The GOP is controlled by secularists. The GOP is corrupt to the core, as are the Dems. It’s basically a uni-party with competing factions.

DC is very much like an organized crime syndicate. All the laws are written by government lawyers in cooperation with corporate or special interest lawyers for the benefit of themselves. Most of the what the Fed does isn’t specified in the Constitution and is therefore the right of the States. We are an authoritarian socialist country now, on our way to totalitarianism

Short of a revolution, the public education system isn’t getting fixed. It’s completely controlled by the government, unions and school boards, and its use is to indoctrinate, not educate in the classical sense. Parents have virtually no control over curriculum Which is why home schooling, private schooling and charter schools are growing rapidly. Students are taught leftist secular humanist ideology and to obey and not question authority. They are not taught critical thinking or to come up with their own solutions. The vast majority of educators in public universities self identify when polled as leftists (progressives).

As far as “religious fundamentalists “ that’s pretty much 98% of the signers of the Declaration and Constitution and those served us pretty well as the foundation of the greatest nation in history so I’m not sure why they are a problem to you.

Well said, Sir.

 

[tigerworx]

Many of the Founders were deists or strongly influenced by deist thought, as close to being a secularist or an atheist as you could get at the time.

Jefferson is well known to have been a deist. He rejected the divinity of Jesus and the legitimacy of miracles. He was attacked as an atheist for it.

Ben Franklin, also a deist.

OK.

So why all the references to Creator, God, In God We Trust, Providence, the Prayers in early Congress.

You named your pet few.
If they were so influential, why all the Historical Data you seem to so despise?

 

[TigerGrowls]

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/st...kely-widened-racial-economic-achievement-gap/

We’re going to lose a generation of kids over moronic decisions like this and others. Our country’s education system has got to be worked on. Our culture isn’t tough enough on the average kid to push them to do better, and they simply get shuffled along with their papers stamped. You can’t tell somebody they’re bad at something and need to get better without it being an indictment of their worth as a human being. Crazy. To fix it, your options are to turn the GQP, a party that embraces religious fundamentalism and a disdain for the intellectual, or the Democrats, a party beholden to teachers’ unions and interest groups that will jump through flaming hoops of fire to feel offended by one thing or another.

We agree on this one.