Ransacking America's Future
Once upon a time, public education was respected.
That’s when public schools taught the rules of proper civic behavior. The rights and duties of citizens were explained and practiced in the classrooms.
There were few intangibles. The students were expected to practice the tenets that defined acceptable behavior. Ethics and morality weren’t strangers to the academic world; they were an integral part of public education.
Students were taught that their academic achievement and their ultimate success were bound together. Education was understood to be the springboard that prepared them to compete for and acquire personal wealth. It was universally understood that it was the bridge to success.
And it was an opportunity that came with no guarantees. Education was a process that assembled a scorecard of academic merit, personal ability and initiative. The system never pretended that all youngsters were intellectually equal.
School was about peer competition and academic standing. Grades denoted proficiency in subject matter. They weren’t awarded for good intentions; they were earned by mastering skills.
Among the industrialized nations of the world, studies place the US between 12th and 18th in terms of the overall quality of education it provides. In the middle of the Twentieth Century it was ranked number one.
The downward slope of US education traces the path cut by the onslaught of liberal programs introduced in the 1960’s. The Socialists believe that universal, mediocre performance is superior to the disparity created by rewarding talent and initiative. Educators adopted the practice of social promotion which eliminated objective standards.
Socialists despise the curve of the economic rainbow, and believe the pot of gold is public property. They have defined education as they define morality and achievement. The standards and criteria are subjective. That’s why they loathe standardized tests.
The United States spends more money-per-pupil than any of the top 24 industrialized nations. It’s not about the money and it is about the money. Between 1960 and 1995 the cost-per-pupil, adjusted for inflation, rose 212% in the US.
What did this investment buy? Nothing but a bloated educational bureaucracy bent on the removal of merit from the classroom. Today, more than one-half of the personnel on the school payrolls don’t work in a classroom. By comparison, 72% of the personnel in private schools are teachers.
All available statistics indicate that the influx of bureaucrats has contributed to the deterioration of education. They are the problem. [It doesn’t take a scholar to quickly calculate how to reduce the cost of public education 25%.]
These government parasites owe their allegiance to a system which is controlled by powerful unions. They write the educational policies fostered by the Democrats. And the Democrats have scuttled the quality of education to protect this voting block and their shared socialist ideals.
Together, they are ransacking America’s future.
That’s when public schools taught the rules of proper civic behavior. The rights and duties of citizens were explained and practiced in the classrooms.
There were few intangibles. The students were expected to practice the tenets that defined acceptable behavior. Ethics and morality weren’t strangers to the academic world; they were an integral part of public education.
Students were taught that their academic achievement and their ultimate success were bound together. Education was understood to be the springboard that prepared them to compete for and acquire personal wealth. It was universally understood that it was the bridge to success.
And it was an opportunity that came with no guarantees. Education was a process that assembled a scorecard of academic merit, personal ability and initiative. The system never pretended that all youngsters were intellectually equal.
School was about peer competition and academic standing. Grades denoted proficiency in subject matter. They weren’t awarded for good intentions; they were earned by mastering skills.
Among the industrialized nations of the world, studies place the US between 12th and 18th in terms of the overall quality of education it provides. In the middle of the Twentieth Century it was ranked number one.
The downward slope of US education traces the path cut by the onslaught of liberal programs introduced in the 1960’s. The Socialists believe that universal, mediocre performance is superior to the disparity created by rewarding talent and initiative. Educators adopted the practice of social promotion which eliminated objective standards.
Socialists despise the curve of the economic rainbow, and believe the pot of gold is public property. They have defined education as they define morality and achievement. The standards and criteria are subjective. That’s why they loathe standardized tests.
The United States spends more money-per-pupil than any of the top 24 industrialized nations. It’s not about the money and it is about the money. Between 1960 and 1995 the cost-per-pupil, adjusted for inflation, rose 212% in the US.
What did this investment buy? Nothing but a bloated educational bureaucracy bent on the removal of merit from the classroom. Today, more than one-half of the personnel on the school payrolls don’t work in a classroom. By comparison, 72% of the personnel in private schools are teachers.
All available statistics indicate that the influx of bureaucrats has contributed to the deterioration of education. They are the problem. [It doesn’t take a scholar to quickly calculate how to reduce the cost of public education 25%.]
These government parasites owe their allegiance to a system which is controlled by powerful unions. They write the educational policies fostered by the Democrats. And the Democrats have scuttled the quality of education to protect this voting block and their shared socialist ideals.
Together, they are ransacking America’s future.
Labels: primary education, socialism, unions
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