Why America’s Schools are falling behind…

There’s a group called Ed in 08 that wants you to lobby your legislators and the presidential candidates to direct more taxpayer money for social programs for minorities in the education system. The group claims that our nation ranks somewhere between 19th and 25th (depending on which of their ads you listen to) out of 30 nations in the world in performance and graduation rates. They claim the problem is that kids, especially minority students aren’t spending enough time in school on a daily basis, and are dropping out before they graduate. They are demanding the government fix this problem.

Here are a few reasons this approach will not work.

1. It’s been tried before (Does anyone remember “No Child Left Behind”?), and didn’t work. Teachers now teach to the test, instead of to the students.
2. American public “schools,” are no longer learning centers…they are left-wing indoctrination camps. Requiring that children spend more time there will not help them learn to read or do math better.
3. In order for learning to take place, the teachers and children must feel relatively safe in the learning environment. Today’s kids are under assault by the child predators that have infiltrated the school system, and by the communists who are determined to drive a wall between them and their families, mentally and emotionally. They’re under assault by other students, and because the teachers are no longer allowed to enforce any sort of moral value system or discipline, they provide no protection for themselves or the students. In most schools, an angry parent is kept out by armed security, but gangs and thugs roam the schools freely, bullying the other children.
4. Most parents are no longer involved in the learning progress of their own kids. They may have tried to get involved at an early stage, but have learned that doing so only brings trouble upon their own kids, and sometimes upon their own families, as they find that the scrutiny of the educators and law enforcement is quickly turned from an imcompetent teacher to a non-compliant parent. So, now they just meekly go along with whatever the schools tell them is best for their children, and hope the school is right.

Why should more taxpayer money be directed to more social programs to keep kids in these schools more hours a day for more years? How will that help our kids?

Also see:

• What Happened to the New England Primer and a Slateboard?
• The Poison Pen and Propaganda