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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proves why the American education system is broken |
| 2020-02-10 |
| Bookworm Room via Instapundit Over the years, there have been two constant themes in my posts: First, that public K-12 schools are awful and, second, that we should withdraw every penny of taxpayer money from colleges and universities (including private schools in the forms of grants and government back student loans) because they too are awful. At the K-12 level, education is lousy for several reasons. First, the education model is the worst way to teach children. Few students learn by sitting down, being lectured to, and then going home and struggling with homework. I highly recommend the Montessori approach, for Maria Montessori looked at how children learn, rather than how adults think they ought to be taught. Second, K-12 education is bedeviled by every stupid leftist trend, from the "whole word" approach to reading that left a generation illiterate to the insistence on bringing transgender sexuality to kindergarteners. Third ‐ and there are wonderful and notable exceptions to this problem ‐ women’s lib meant that women at the top of their class were no longer limited to teaching, nursing, and secretarial work. They went on to become high-paying professionals. Most teachers are now drawn from the bottom third of any college class. I've seen the same phenomena in Israeli schools when I was migratory labor (sub teacher) in the system. The teachers simply don't understand the stuff they're supposed to teach. At the college and university level, the problem is that these institutions are leftist indoctrination classes. They have little time to teach reasoning and knowledge. They’re too busy shaping little Marxists to go out into the world and support Bernie Sanders. Which gets me to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whom Don Surber calls the face of the Democrat Party. According to Wikipedia, Ocasio-Cortez attended public school, did well, and then became involved in race-based activities: ...She then attended Boston University College [d’oh!], a private college that once had a reputation for excellence. On paper, Ocasio-Cortez was at the top of her graduating class: ...Clearly, this girl is a brainiac, right? Or maybe not: "AOC: "It’s a physical impossibility to lift yourself up by a bootstrap, by your shoelaces? It’s physically impossible." ...Any education system that can produce someone as staggeringly stupid as Ocasio-Cortez is doing something wrong. Taxpayers are paying good money and getting dismal results. I know at least one TAU professor, of theoretical biology no less, who makes AOC look like Albert Einstein |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #6 I incorporated three different large manufacturers.Condensed as best I could. From what I can see in my area, cell phones companies, loan companies are dominated by women. Then restaurants also and turnover is horrendous. |
| Posted by: Dale 2020-02-10 23:17 |
| #5 Dale, I can't entirely follow your long comment but think I get the gist of it; cannot disagree in general, though I don't think it is a female thing. My experience is it is a background thing - elite schools vs. tech schools, 'high flyers' vs. experience. Etc. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2020-02-10 16:56 |
| #4 #3. Yes. No C's here for sure. Many years I understand. |
| Posted by: Dale 2020-02-10 10:57 |
| #3 I had read that harvard has terrible grade inflation and most people have a straight A average as a result. I suspect Boston University is similar. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2020-02-10 09:58 |
| #2 Affirmative action admit for sure. It is indeed scary that this retarded child was admitted to and graduated from a selective university. She got good grades because everyone, intelligent or not, gets A's now in liberal arts programs at private colleges: the administrators insist that the profs pander to the college's "consumers." It's actually the case now that a bright and motivated student is likely to learn more at one of the better flagship state universities than at any of the non-STEM elite private institutions. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-02-10 08:34 |
| #1 Currently in my area of industry we have recurring problems. Women are hired for management positions with no background in real world management of subordinate staff. Yes, that question is asked and in most cases not a bit of experience is offered. So things are done as they direct. You suggest a change they will listen but not apply. A seasoned employee of over twenty years comments that her change will not work. The Engineer and the manager both women are correct. You are not. So the employee a male bets $200 dollars it will not work. Response go back to work. Within an hours time the assembly line shuts down. Perhaps a suggestion that the line needs maintenance. No, that is maintenance sourced out. Problem is it is never serviced. Round and round it goes. Entire leed transfers. One company has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars due to product orders lost or never delivered. New computer programmers-techs from India can't make the system work. CEO is male but all other down line management are female. This is replayed over and over in our local industries. |
| Posted by: Dale 2020-02-10 08:26 |