They know no shame; government schools that is. Dec. 29, 2010
$65 million (forced redistribution from taxpayers) needed to remediate 54.6% of Arkansas 2009 college students—up 3.3% from 2008. (All Stats from Democrat-Gazette12/21/10) The percentages vary from 90% (!) in the U of A, Pine Bluff to 12% (!) in U of A, Fayetteville. How much did they each cost the taxpayers already?
Unbelievable? Not really. A totally logical result considering the subject matter and teaching methods utilized.
Outrageous? Absolutely. Unacceptable? Completely.
The explanation is quite simple. Follow the money, along with the politically correct, collectivist goals, and Voila! Just as “Form follows Function†in some architecture, Funding follows Failure in all government schools.
The curriculum has been totally revised and twisted to distort our history, Founding Principles, major heroes and destroy our national and individual pride. Courses have been deliberately dumbed-down in order to produce a lazy citizenry unable to think rationally, act independently and intelligently (based on facts) to preserve its culture, heritage and freedoms.
The mass of teachers is now as indoctrinated as the children they “teachâ€, therefore they often don’t know themselves they are teaching bunk, garbage and misinformation. The minority of authentic teachers are bound, gagged, and intimidated by the system.
The emphasis on “feelings†rather than academic excellence; the introduction of fuzzy approximations in math, science and other critical courses: inflicting affirmative action; lowering expectations & requirements; fostering unearned self-esteem; presenting a revised American history designed to create guilt and shame; facilitating the attendance of non-English speaking illegal foreign nationals whose presence degrades the entire system by taking time and effort away from citizen pupils, but they create more funding for ESL & other programs….all part of the modus operandi.
The teachers’ unions bear much of the shame/blame. Their goal is not success for the students but job security for their members—hence almost none are fired for incompetence—follow the money.
The administrators are trained to lobby, smooze, make excuses, and find “reasons†for more funding. Hence more kids on “free lunches, supplies, healthcare, counselingâ€, etc. all of which increases funding.
Funding not only follows failure, it trumps excellence in academics hands down!
Many stupid, ineffectual solutions are and will be offered by Arkansas legislators and other “experts†in the upcoming session, but no one will dare address the truth.
The system, like most of government, needs to be dismantled or so severely cut that competition has a chance to improve results.
Kill No Child Left Behind, Outcome Based, Goals 2000, Global Workforce, and all the other Fascist/Communist programs, resuscitate the dying victims with the fresh breezes of knowledge, merit, and achievement. Cease the freebie carrots offered illegal aliens, most particularly schooling. The disturbing motive lurking behind the “for the children†of illegals is the fact that allowing their entry guarantees failure…failure of the illegals and failure of citizen children who cannot learn in such chaos, but again the more failure, the more funding.
Return to proven educational academia and methods. Bring back geography, true mathematics & American history, science, biology, Latin, phonics, English composition & grammar, read the real Classics and challenge the students every day to excel. Award grades that are EARNED. If a student fails he should receive an F, if they all fail they all get F….no fudging, cheating, or lying about scores.
Why should anyone needing significant remediation be allowed into college? They should be returned, like any bad product, to the institution which failed to produce a properly educated student. Perhaps then, the public schools will be forced to actually do their intended job.
Whoever decided ALL children, no matter their skills or interests, must go to college and why? What happened to common sense alternative training like vocational classes and schools? One-size-fits-all is not only stupid, it is downright dangerous.
Never forget, this chainsaw massacre was made possible by such smelly bromides as “it’s for the childrenâ€.
Never has so much been done in the name of “the children†and never have they been in so much danger, so ill-served, so disarmed, so betrayed and so pampered—all of which robs them of authentic self-esteem, the ability to reason properly, or to solve problems intelligently, much less prepare them for a job or career.
What will Arkansas do to right this terrible wrong? As usual they will tinker around the edges and never touch real solutions. They will continue to serve the interests of the government, the unions and other special interests such as the ethno-centric anti-American organizations, e.g. Hispanics LULAC & La Raza (THE RACE), and Arkansas, like other states, will continue to sacrifice the children to a merciless, crippling indoctrination system. After all, children may not have any money to loot, but they do have minds to bend, bias, and train. Most of all, they are a source of enormous funding. From whence come the “funds�?? FORCED REDISTRIBUTION…the Communist/Fascist way.
Just think, it wasn’t that long ago America was #1 on the globe in education—you know, back when education was more valued than money and philosophical destruction.
~Barbara McCutchen
P.S. How about the $90 million (taxpayer forced redistribution) “stimulus†bonuses to the failed system’s teachers in Arkansas? How about the failed, disgraceful system returning the money to those who were robbed of their hard-earned wages?
