Stomping Out Liberalism
George Will is very concerned about public education in this country, as well he should be. It seems among his biggest complaints is that the University of Alabama's College of Education wants to, among other things,
"... promote social justice, to be change agents, and to recognize individual and institutionalized racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism," and to "break silences" about those things and "develop anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-sexist community [sic] and alliances."
I realize that's a horrible concept to expect the teachers of our children to grasp and should be extinguished at all costs. Then we can make way for mandatory classes in "Intelligent Design".
"... promote social justice, to be change agents, and to recognize individual and institutionalized racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism," and to "break silences" about those things and "develop anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-sexist community [sic] and alliances."
I realize that's a horrible concept to expect the teachers of our children to grasp and should be extinguished at all costs. Then we can make way for mandatory classes in "Intelligent Design".
posted by John at 1:30 PM
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Since we, the tax-paying public, pay these people to teach and not to indoctrinate, it would seem reasonable to expect them to do just that. The problem is, given the lack of quality and understanding of the very universities who pretended to educate and train the teachers, they don't know what they are supposed to do. Most of them don't know how to read, do math at a college level and abstract reasoning is really just beyond them.
I remember a number of years back when the State of Nebraska, at the urging of the teacher's union, closed a small church school and arrested the pastor of the church. It's crime was that the school with one teacher with no more than an eighth grade education herself was turning out students who were consistently besting the best of the states few elite public high schools on the standardized tests. And they were not going to stand for it as long as they had the power of the state behind them.
The reason more folks are going in for home schooling is that, left or right, they want their children educated rather than propagandized. As I wrote, it only seems reasonable.
Annonymous -
Thanks for the input. I'm not exactly sure what you mean, and I'm very skeptical of your Nebraska story. All the press on "alternative schools" that I see is either about complete scam charter schools or huge success stories. But I don't see everything.
But, you're right - children shouldn't be propagandized (is that a word? - how about indoctrinated?) at all.
Alpenmic -
Thanks for the comments. I've heard that idea, or a variation on it, any number of times. I'm not quite ready to buy in wholesale, but there's certainly something to the continued decline in public education. Of course, NCLB, as currently constituted, goes a long way towards supporting your theory.
Thanks for reading.
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