According to the Times Record 4/6/13: Superintendent Benny Gooden said his “school district is becoming more diverse by the year”.  “We have one of the richest cultural representations anywhere in this part of the country”.  “That’s a plus…our students are well prepared to interact anywhere they go. Ethnically, racially, they will understand the people with whom they associate”.  Straight out of Cultural Marxism
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Notice not a word about academic curriculum, merit or achievement…only about “interaction” as though that is the ultimate virtue…if you can’t read, write, work mathematics, et al, but can “interact”—that’s a proper education goal?  Tragic doesn’t begin to describe what is being done to the minds of those attending government schools.

The article reports that about 71% of Ft. Smith students qualify for free or reduced price lunches. (The more students on the program the more funding the district receives) He also states that 7 out of 10 elementary school attendees are “lacking in amenities”…meaning they are poor and fails to mention in this report the huge numbers of illegal non-English speaking aliens that are not only receiving taxpayer funded largesse but are also destroying any semblance of real learning or study in the classrooms.  Assimilation is not occurring because they want to keep their failed philosophies & cultures alive, and the education cabal would consider it “discriminatory” for them to be required to become Americanized as in the past.

Not a word about how American kids are supposed to learn excellence in academics when the class must be dumbed-down in order to pass the underachievers to the next grade.  That is what Gooden really means when he avows that “educators” strive for a “balanced educational program that addresses the needs of EVERY student”. Anyone with a semblance of sense knows the only way to achieve egalitarianism is to teach to the lowest common denominator, i.e. the slowest child in the class. No wonder brighter kids are bored silly.

“One size fits all” is the modern mantra of government schools—from their “no tolerance” rule which won’t allow the sketching of a gun on paper, to limiting competition to that which produces no losers, i.e. everyone gets a trophy…a very convenient contrivance to avoid common sense, case by case individual consideration which requires diligent effort and fairness and it bypasses the backbone of our latter day justice system.  It’s a nonsensical, unjust, easy way out of making judgments based on reason & facts. A terrible life lesson.

Gooden describes critics as always “talking about negatives” and that they make him “tired”.  He needs to know the critics are more than “tired” of the dismal failure to teach children academics while their heads are filled with Collectivist ideologies.
 
Now comes an MSNBC host declaring openly that “kids don’t belong to their parents”, they belong to community.  Shades of Hillary’s “It Takes a Village”.  The Collectivists: Progressives/Socialists/Fascists/Communists are coming out of the woodwork now…they are feeling safe in today’s entitlement environment to express their true beliefs.  Obama said to businessmen, “you didn’t build that”, the government did.  When there are no consequences to criminal acts it is no wonder they increase exponentially.

Dr. Gooden has been the F.S. superintendent for 27 years and is serving a stint as President of the American Association of School Administrators. He epitomizes the “modern day vision” of education/indoctrination and fully understands the methods used to latch onto more & more taxpayer subsidized funding.  The more the school academics fail, the more non-English speaking attendees, the more poverty stricken “needing” food, the more devotees to faux “public service” and the rejection of rational self-interest, i.e. merit, achievement, standards…the more stolen money will be available. If one doesn’t understand the dismal state of public education today and the enormous amount of taxpayer money being flushed down this cesspool, these facts should help explain the dire situation.

Have the government schools actually become a form of child abuse?   Pity the young. 

~Barbara McCutchen