Democrats Want Kids Dumb for Public School Indoctrination
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Happy Monday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Fosryck would often don a crushed velvet morning coat when making a point at the monthly meeting of the Tri-County Fenugreek Fanatics.
One of the more disheartening things we’ve witnessed in the past couple of weeks is the spectacle of American college students marching on campuses in support of the Palestinian front for Hamas. Their ignorance is truly galling given the current price of higher education in this country.
While it’s true that the young minds of college students are polluted by leftist radicals in Academia, those who arrived at universities via the American public education system did so with brains that were ripe for whatever progressive nonsense their professors threw at them. The far-left thoroughly evil teachers’ unions who control public schools and the Democratic Party saw to that.
The reason the Democrats insist that kids get into school earlier and earlier has nothing to do with all of the B.S. research they’ve funded that says children who go to pre-pre-pre-pre-school do better later in life (I call it “Wombergarten” in “Don’t Let the Hippies Shower“), it’s all about getting to work on softening their brains as soon as possible.
Things really began to go sour in public schools when feelings began to be prioritized over actual learning. There are countless examples of this, the most recent coming from the commie proving ground formerly known as the American state of Oregon, which Milt Harris wrote about over the weekend:
When I was growing up, we were taught that the basic subjects were Reading, Writing and “rithmetic.” It was impressed upon us that to navigate through life you must be somewhat proficient in all three areas. That wasn’t to say that other subjects like science and history weren’t important, but those three would be used on a daily basis when we were out in the workplace. In today’s educational system, it is shocking that proficiency in even these basic subjects is not required. What’s even more shocking is that requiring a certain degree of adequacy is at times considered inequitable and even racist.
The state of Oregon is an example of this new way of thinking. In July of 2021, Governor Kate Brown very quietly signed Senate Bill 744. The bill dropped the requirement that high school students be tested to demonstrate proficiency in reading, writing, and math. The requirement was originally suspended at the beginning of the pandemic, but by signing this bill it was extended for an additional three years through the 2024 school year.
At the time, Foundations for a Better Oregon said in a statement that the bill was intended to “truly reflect what every student needs to thrive in the 21st century.” Supporters insisted that considering math and reading essential skills was an unfair challenge for students that do not test well.
As the kids are fond of saying, there’s a lot to unpack here.
If a student wants to go onto college — a path that Democrats are always championing — they had better learn to test well. Even with all of the commies in Academia, tests are an integral part of higher education. I’m going back to college (long story, I’ll be writing about it) after, um, a bit of a layoff, and one of the first things that I have to do is take a math placement test.
I was not asked if I felt that I test well.
The constant relaxation of academic requirements dulls the intellect of American students. The less intellectually sharp they are when they get in the clutches of a radical professor, the less likely they are to question any alternative histories or nonreality scenarios offered to them as fact. Intellectual curiosity and critical thinking among the student body are to modern American academics what garlic and crucifixes are to vampires.
Since the pandemic, the teachers’ unions’ lack of interest in teaching has been exposed. They fought harder than anyone to keep American students out of classrooms for as long as possible. Whenever a Democratic politician is supporting something like the bill in Oregon, he or she is doing so at the behest of the deep-pocketed and powerful teachers’ unions.
Making it easier for kids to get through high school is the worst possible way to prepare them for the real world. Or at least it used to be. We see feelings-based policies even in corporate America, which used to pride itself on being heartless. Still, while academic standards can be altered, reality can’t. People who are always looking for the path of least resistance aren’t going to be movers and shakers in society.
As we’ve discussed here before, more school choice is the way to begin weakening the unions and their stranglehold on the Democrats. There’s been a lot of progress on this front, but much more work needs to be done. And it needs to be done before the Dems unleash too many more mush-brained “educated” people into the wild to dismantle the Constitution of the United States.
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