Over the past couple of weeks I
have had the opportunity to peer into our public education system and see
firsthand just how bad our system is failing our children. I mentioned the
other day that many children, in high school no less, are having difficulty
reading. Not only reading; reviewing what was read in order to study seemed
like a lost concept to many of them. I sat in front of a class of high school
kids and had to teach them how to correlate a title of a paragraph with review
questions at the end of a chapter, in order how to determine how to find the
answer. In other words, there was no solid study habits ingrained in many of
these kids.
If this isn’t bad enough, I taught
at a middle school where clear back packs are issued to the students because of
the rampant drug and violence problem among eighth graders. Middle schools with
drug problems, that’s the reality of education in America today. Speaking with the students it is clear beyond
a reasonable doubt that America will be finished as these generations become
adults and are completely clueless as to what is going on around them. While there are a handful of kids who show an
obvious sense of disdain for what they witness in these classrooms, they are
the ones who are truly being left behind as the system has to cater to those
who simply don’t care. It’s reminiscent of the Chicago study I wrote about the
other day with the lower achieving math students being placed into a class with
the higher achieving students. The results obviously favored the lower
achieving as the whole system had to be curtailed to meet their needs, thus
leaving those thirsting for knowledge behind. This is happening on a much
larger scale as schools are forced to deal with behavioral issues, this leaves
the students that do behave in the dust because they are being forced to meet
the same low standard.
Who would be held responsible for
something like this, the teacher, the school district, the DOE? I don’t know,
but I think it’s a problem because no
one is being held responsible for it. I think on one level you have a
deliberate attempt to implement standards that lower academic achievement in
order to pursue this abstract concept of “total equality” and create compliant
citizens. While on another level you have the teachers who went into the
profession for all the right reasons and now have no idea how to even identify
what is going wrong in the system. Their hands are tied and their job depends
upon their compliance. Not only that; many
teachers are completely unaware of many of the topics discussed among
conservatives, i.e. the communist infiltration into education etc, etc. It is
likely that these teachers are a byproduct of the very system that teaches them
just to go along to get along themselves; therefore they are unlikely to buck
the system and bring unwanted attention to themselves, which is why it will
never change. Folks, we have to buck the system.
If you are a regular reader of my
articles, or if you have researched anything about education than you know much
of this represents a one hundred year plan to change our culture. John Dewey, Antonio Gramsci and others viewed
education as a means of gaining control of the minds of young people so they
could control a population. Reversing this is going to require nothing less
than that folks. We have to start now, not with the attitude that we are just
realizing our country is being taken over, but with one that acknowledges it
already has been. Changing our culture back is not going to happen while
conservative minded Americans are more concerned about careers, prestige,
retirement plans and their next vacation. All of this feeds into the plans of
the socialists that control them. That’s right; this system has been controlled
by these people for a long time, that’s why so many are afraid to speak up.
When you’re afraid to speak up out of fear of losing your job, or fear of
standing out, you are not free; you are serving the system that has silenced
you.
Winning our culture back will take
nothing less than the same dedication that the socialists have displayed in
destroying it. Dedicating one hundred percent of your efforts toward
influencing the young minds in this country is what it is going to take. This
is why fields like education are completely dominated by liberals; they
understand their objective, transforming the hearts and minds of your kids so
they reflect the ideals of collectivism. While they were doing this everyone
else was distracted by the allure of working hard to achieve the unachievable
because it was being destroyed right before our very eyes. While you are
setting an example for little Johnny by working hard and saving money, the
people you send them off to be educated by are teaching them this system is
greedy and you are selfish. We simply
can no longer sit on the sidelines and claim we need change while allowing the
socialists to dominate the fields best suited to implement it.
In the past I have written
extensively about being educated on Saul Alinsky and social activism in the
college classroom. Social work education, at the bachelor level was nothing
short of being taught how to be democratic operatives, or “social change
agents.” In other words, colleges are teaching your kids how to be radicals,
how to be a boat rocker. Occupy Wall
Street was a perfect example of this as many of those people were college
students begging for socialism. I tell you this to stress the urgency in which
we need to act folks. We have to be the change we want to see and by doing this
we have to start becoming the teachers, we have to start becoming the social
workers, we have to start showing these kids how the liberals are failing them.
We have to take advantage of the dire economic opportunities and use the fact
that jobs like teaching and other “social service” related jobs are what is
available and stack these positions with motivated conservatives, until; well
until one hundred years from now we have changed our culture back.
Maybe I am not saying anything that
hasn’t been said before, but after seeing firsthand the extent education in
America has been destroyed, from the perspective of a college student arguing
with communist professors and as a teacher inside the system, it has to be said
again. I can only hope that what I say will resonate.
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