{"id":1495,"date":"2017-08-27T00:15:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T00:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2017-08-28T00:17:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T00:17:20","slug":"the-dumb-down-on-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"The Dumb-Down on steroids"},"content":{"rendered":"

Times Record headline 8\/27\/17 \u201cProgress made on strategic plan\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

How to put this in plain English without writing a book? The \u201cPlan\u201d is a 5 year plan\u2026remember the USSR? It is being devised starting with a \u201c25 person advisory team after 2 \u00bd days of meetings\u201d. The team is comprised of \u201cstudents, educators, & community members\u201d. There will also be 7 action teams of 20-25 people yet to be chosen to be assigned topics for education improvement. Yes, Virginia, it does take a village.<\/p>\n

It appears that the Education Establishment no longer knows how to teach students and requires complete overhauling\u2026which it does, but not by a collective, no matter how well-intentioned, with no clue as to the acquisition of knowledge.<\/p>\n

Wading through the newspeak, educanto gibberish, one would conclude that schools are to take the place of parents as to the \u201cneeds of all children & families (physical\/mental\/emotional\/academic\/social\/etc.)\u201d Now that is quite an undertaking\u2026arrogance & ignorance on parade. Independence is never mentioned.<\/p>\n

Long story short\u2014these people are going to collaborate to bring about an Egalitarian Utopia. While they are making sure that everyone is treated the same, attain the same results, have equitable resources, they say diversity is an asset. In a sane world \u201cdiversity\u201d by itself is divisive, not an asset.<\/p>\n

They believe \u201call students have the potential to become successful, productive citizens in our diverse rapidly changing world\u201d. What happened to scientific data such as DNA, IQ, Gene differences, let alone individual\u2019s ambitions, drive, intellectual curiosity\u2014all of which vary from person to person via Mother Nature and environment? <\/p>\n

Now here is a particularly asinine statement \u201cEveryone should embrace change in order to achieve at their highest potential\u201d. No explanation or definition of what that \u201cchange\u201d might be. What if it is something horrific such as Fascism or Totalitarianism? <\/p>\n

Let us compare \u201ceducation\u201d today to education of back in the day of the one room schoolhouse. Elementary school children back then were taught geography, real mathematics, English & Grammar, how to diagram a sentence, the parts of speech, how to write in cursive, how to find foreign places on a map, what the history was of our country (although already revised), science, how to read classic works of literature including poetry, ad infinitum. Today we constantly see examples of college students who cannot accomplish any, much less all these subjects. Why?<\/p>\n

In this article there is no mention of proper discipline in the classroom, schoolyard, etc. which is a known problem, often severe. No talk of improving curricula or returning to more challenging teaching methods. No subject matter is discussed. No Latin, chemistry, literature, et al, just providing the tools with which everyone can be the same. Which by the way is impossible; unless you lower everyone to the lowest common denominator\u2026remember Mother Nature & environment? Denial of facts won\u2019t change them.<\/p>\n

Numerous books have been written on the deliberate dumbing down of students in government schools, evidently none of this myriad of planners has read one or comprehends the subject. Don\u2019t they wonder why Johnny can\u2019t read, write or cypher? Do they really believe that more computers, bigger buildings, better stadiums, prettier surroundings, lack of discipline & more love are the answers? <\/p>\n

Obviously so. This country has fallen academically behind many other countries when once it was on top\u2026why? You just read why. Academics is out, diversity & inclusion are in, ergo ignorant pupils lacking authentic self-esteem & pride\u2026who act on emotions rather than reason, who are incapable of \u201ccritical thinking\u201d which is so lauded. How do you learn to think critically when you\u2019re not exposed to logic and reason? You don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

So goes the schools, so goes our country. This was\/is by design\u2026it is no accident\u2026but that is another very unpleasant subject.<\/p>\n

Pity the young.<\/p>\n

~Barbara McCutchen
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Times Record headline 8\/27\/17 \u201cProgress made on strategic plan\u201d How to put this in plain English without writing a book? The \u201cPlan\u201d is a 5 year plan\u2026remember the USSR? It is being devised starting with a \u201c25 person advisory team after 2 \u00bd days of meetings\u201d. The team is comprised of \u201cstudents, educators, & community … Continue reading The Dumb-Down on steroids<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-morass","category-political-correctness-the-destroyer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}