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| Why Are Student Test Scores Plunging? Look At Politicized Education | |||
| 2022-10-16 | |||
| [ZeroHedge] Recent national student test scores showed a massive decline in learning in reading and math. This achievement implosion has several explanations – one is the increasing politicization of classroom instruction, which is reducing rigor and diverting attention from improving students’ foundational knowledge and skills. From 2020 to 2022,
While school closures and ineffective distance-learning efforts were important reasons for the slide in test scores,
Indeed, other important reasons exist for the nosedive in student performance. Many students report that increasing ideological indoctrination in the classroom is leading to weaker standards and lower expectations.
“To not teach hard work and to not teach a work ethic is going to be disastrous for the kids who kind of cruise along in public schools,” the student reflected. The ideological instruction that this student experienced is happening across the country. It is pushed by special interests such as teachers’ unions. The National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers’ union in the country, pushes the critical race theory-inspired position that systemic racism permeates all American institutions and must be taught in our schools so that kids challenge “the systems of oppression that have harmed people of color.” In 2021, the NEA adopted a resolution that would mandate race-based ideological instruction in public schools across the country. According to the resolution, the union intends to disseminate its own study that “critiques empire, white supremacy, anti-Blackness, anti-Indigeneity, racism, patriarchy, cisheteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, anthropocentrism, and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society.” The NEA specifically says that critical race theory is one of the methods that should be used to teach these topics in school districts around the country. Unions are also using race to undermine teacher quality in the classroom. In a recent announcement, the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers reached an agreement with Minneapolis Public Schools to lay off white teachers regardless of seniority or merit before laying off minority teachers in the name of “anti-bias, anti-racism.” As one analyst noted, the Minneapolis agreement seeks “to achieve ‘equity’ by reducing standards and replacing white teachers,” while the “sensible (and legal) goal is to expand the pool and retention rate of all qualified teachers.” When confronted with the reality of historically low academic performance, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, attempted to flip the script, blaming conservatives and Trump-era education policies for harming learning. Yet, many teachers disagree and are speaking out against politicized classrooms. Virginia public school teacher Laura Morris quit her job and told her school board, which had pushed race-based indoctrination, “I quit your policies, I quit your training, and I quit being a cog in a machine that that tells me to push highly politicized agendas to our most vulnerable constituents – children.” | |||
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 Never forget a very basic factor - parents actually concerned with their children's education. Look at the scores of groups that consistently rank the highest and you'll find a family culture that values and reinforces the commitment to education. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-10-16 19:40 |
| #1 I blame social media along with the schools systems for the kids being dumber than shit now. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-10-16 19:02 |