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| What Will Become of Our Schools? |
| 2020-07-07 |
| The American Mind via Instapundit After hospitals and healthcare, perhaps no other part of American life has been more affected by the Chinese coronavirus disaster than education. From the conservative perspective—one which recognizes that today’s public education system, even in ordinary times, is not preparing students to one day shoulder the responsibilities of American citizenship—what challenges and silver linings should we expect to emerge from the age of the virus? Elementary and Secondary Education Prior to COVID-19 A short review of the decivilization process American Education Post-Virus Though millions of families are currently navigating education at home, we must be careful not to expect that this situation will produce a huge permanent swing in the numbers of homeschooling families. But we are seeing evidence that the number of families homeschooling in the fall will be much higher than usual. In North Carolina, for example, so many applications were sent in that the state government server, designed to handle a more modest number, crashed. That homeschooling uptick will likely be particularly pronounced among families whose children have special needs and who find direct, at-home instruction is actually easier than fighting the system tooth and nail to implement Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Also among the likely candidates for more permanent homeschooling are children for whom school was a social stressor due to high-violence environments, intense bullying, or other peer issues. ...It is possible this crisis will produce a permanent seismic shift in homeschooling numbers, but even if homeschooling numbers double, the vast majority of students will return to in-person schooling at some point. Long-term, what should conservatives look for? A more subtle—but perhaps, in the long run, more important—cultural shift. I think the author misses the point. Today the main purpose of K-12 is to provide hundreds of thousands of incompetents (mostly women) with gainful employment & social status. In return, the schools churn out masses of ignoramuses who eagerly push into higher education. The 1% who can actually benefit from education are accounted bad/disrespectful students - because they ask uncomfortable questions, instead of rote memorizing - just like the teacher did when she was a student. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 ^ Yep. This question is several decades too late. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2020-07-07 12:31 |
| #2 What will become of our schools? Well, you only have to look at what they are now. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-07-07 11:41 |
| #1 Don't forget, it's subsidised by taxation, so women will go work while their kids are in the adolescent creche, and this pushes up economic rents. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-07-07 09:14 |