A Project Baltimore investigation has found five Baltimore City high schools and one middle school do not have a single student proficient in the state tested subjects of math and English...(The students) are essentially illiterate and unemployable...For all intents and purposes, there are no whites, asians or hispanics around them. The entire government is made up of Democrats and has been for decades...The Baltimore School District spends 50% above the national average per student.Conservatives like to blame the teachers while progressives complain about school funding and racism. It's all nonsense. It has to be.
First off, the teachers are highly motivated to see the children succeed. Assuming that they are all venal degenerates, they are nonetheless rewarded for the kids achieving high scores on the standardized tests. Even if they were the most selfish people on Earth, they would work hard to help the children learn. Such calumny against teachers is vicious nonsense. Almost all of them get into the profession because of a natural devotion to children.
Second, the teachers are, collectively, some of the most progressive people in the country. The teachers' unions bankroll the Democrats everywhere. The Democrats, obsessed with der volk, err, people of color, would hardly be the ones trying to screw children on the basis of race.
Third, it's never been easier to learn. Unless I missed some new discoveries, there are still only 26 letters in the alphabet and ten numbers in math. Nouns and verbs continue to serve their respective purposes and, our deficit spending aside, addition and subtraction fill their same old functions. Meanwhile there are apps and programs and books and toys and libraries and websites, cleverly designed by dedicated professionals to help children learn.
How in the world do you end up with mass failure? How is it that we blame the teachers, the schools, the funding or racism?
Politics has been interesting me less and less as I stumble to the conclusion that we are all lying to ourselves as a country.
Popular culture is all Song of the South. It turns it's back on the pain and suffering of real people and instead uses them to sell a narrative to the rest of us, a narrative that isn't true at all. Without that truth, we'll never be motivated to change what is because we won't see it.Our elites blame the teachers, the schools, money and racism because they want power. If they blamed us, instead of handing them more authority, we'd be motivated to change our behavior and improve ourselves.
And who would want that?
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| On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life (Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife) Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death." As that was written by Rudyard Kipling and he was a white male, we can dismiss it without consideration. |
Worth a link I think to the whole marvelous poem. What a writer, he must have been to be so hated by the idiot progs and SJW's. Always worth re-reading.
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"How in the world do you end up with mass failure?"
ReplyDeleteOne way is this:
Start with any random school. Then, have almost all of the families that actually care about their children's education move away (by closing down their jobs so that they go elsewhere for work). What you are left with is the kids whose families, for whatever reason, mostly don't care a rap about their education. And voila! A whole school filled with kids who don't care about learning anything, and are effectively unteachable!
I don't know if this is exactly what happened in Baltimore, but I've seen it happen in a couple of rural school districts.