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Failing Grades: Does U.S. Public Education System Pose a National Security Risk? ‘Real News’ Panel Debates
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lassiegirldawn
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 2:42amMy grandson was discussing the Illuminati in a class he had last quarter. I asked him what the teacher thought, he said, “she looked like she wanted to crap her pants grandma.” He talks and visits a lot, but the kid isn’t dumb.
Report Post »lassiegirldawn
Posted on March 31, 2012 at 2:35amMy friend is a teacher, she just quit and got a job delivering pizza’s. She is fed up with the dumbing down of our kids. I am in daily contact with my grandsons school and teacher‘s can’t believe that there are parents who really care about their children’s education. They have told me they wish other parents were more involved. My grandson likes to talk and visit too much,soooooo, grandma is on him like white on rice. Teacher’s have no authority any more to handle the kids. This is what the government has created so they can control the population. When baby boomers are gone, kiss this country good-bye.
Report Post »obxned
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:52pmI was in high school shortly after Sputnik. We were taught like our very survival depended on it. 40 years later I passed a college physics course with an ‘A’ without opening a book. The same with history, biology, English. and math. Public education could do an amazing job, but it is not happening, We spend much more and get much less.
My teachers demanded that we be on time, shut up, sit down, pay attention, and have done our homework, or very unpleasant things would happen. The only places like that today are charter schools. The unions and the administration hate charter schools, so for huge amounts of money we will get large numbers of unemployable idiots – perfect Democrate voters.
Report Post »AmericanFightingMan1
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 1:12amEducation has been intentionally highjacked by the bolshevik Left. Dumb people are easy to manipulate, so why educate them? The Left, now owning American education, INDOCTRINATE people.
This is the very center of the Left’s strength. Take away their dominance of public “education” and you destroy the Left. Problem is that it takes about 20 years to get back on track since we now have generations of uneducated people in America.
There are literally 10′s of millions who have gone through our school systems and have learned very little that is useful. As they age, they realize how poor they are in comparison with previous generations. These are people who can hardly do anything. The best that some can now do is work the fry machine at McDonalds. That is their peak because they have not been educated.
So they will be angry. Violence is easy. Lash out like a moron. The target is people who have made something of their lives. Class envy. Race envy. Covet. Want. Desire. Jealousy. Take. Steal. That is the way of the modern criminal urban youth culture. Lost people.
And you cannot get them back. The Left. Cowards. Conniving. Cunning. Spineless. Manipulative. The Left. If there is true justice, the Left will feel soooo much pain.
Report Post »Ohio4Tea
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:53pmAs a teacher, I do think that education is one of the most important issues in this country.
It would be wise to go back to the methods used when America was good at education (Check out the kind of arithmetic 4th graders were doing in the 1800s!) and GET RID of the laws against Home Education, and School Choice. Families having more options for home school and school choice would benefit the education of this country more than you can imagine.
School costs would go down and therefore help children whose families live in poverty (several at my school fit in this category)
Once again, it is total FREEDOM that will bring ingenuity and success.
Report Post »AmericanFightingMan1
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 1:16amTeacher, nice to hear a teacher of reason. I know there are others like you. I have met them. They are in the belly of thje beast. You see those perpetual government types. Large women in polyester and comfortable shoes. Slow moving. Mean. Dominating. Weak liberal men in education. They roll over. Allow themselves to be dominated. No appreciation of our culture or heritage. Bolsheviks. Must be stopped.
Report Post »youdidthis
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 3:04pmCharlotte Iserbyt: The Deliberate Dumbing Down of the World
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youdidthis
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 3:02pmThe Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
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zoro51
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 2:43pmnational security is used FAR too offten as a PLOY.. HOW the hell can this cause national security issues?? what LOGIC is this
Report Post »Quixotic-911
Posted on March 30, 2012 at 1:57pmWho will is more formidable in war, the educated or the uneducated? Who will be better at keeping the peace?
Report Post »thibx
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:18amunions and anyone who support them have destroyed education. until unions are forced out it will not be any different. no amount of money spent will help.
Report Post »thop1960
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:54amI watched this video with the sound off and the only thing I can come up with is that S E Cupp is very attractive…
Report Post »Ed_Kel
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 9:20amDitto.
Report Post »bluesdog
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 9:34amDon’t tell Arlen Specter.
Report Post »babylonvi
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 10:31amAnd entirely too full of herself(no offense, I mean that in the nicest way).
Report Post »gsalas
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:54amI would love to see the list of countries that do well in there education system & how much they spend on there schools, in comparison to how we rank vs how much we spend.
Report Post »junkmaninohio
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:38amThe US Education System is just another arm of the NAZI Joe Gobbels propaganda division where thought police consistently indoctrinate and brain wash all school age children, including college students, into the communist radical way of thinking. Just look at Harvard!
Report Post »norma55
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 8:03amI am going to speak for my soon to be teacher son. He prefers to teach in the inner city and will this fall 2012. During his “student teaching” he found that all those students in the inner city needed was to show that you care. The notes that this students wrote upon his departure brought tears to my eyes. One student wrote “Thank you Mr._____ for taking the time to explain math to me. It is the first time I was able to understand the problems.” When my son came to that classroom this student was one of the worst behaved students in his class. My son said that these students love to learn and love to be challenged if allowed the opportunity. We have to be realistic, it is the unions that are stifling this system. When there is no motivator for job performance pay, why would “some” teachers put in the effort?
Report Post »LetsThinkAboutThis
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:44amWhat part of this is the parents responsibility?
While I do agree with you that that the education does a poor job of “schools do NOT teach that which prepares the students for life” is this not part of the responsibility of a good parent?
The graduates that you are referring to, most likely are all paycheck children. There are many outstanding graduates that would make you and I both proud of the public education system. But they have involved caring parents.
Report Post »LetsThinkAboutThis
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:33amBefore we have any more armchair educators blame the teachers… At least in Ohio, what is taught and how it is taught is determined by: Federal Government, State Government, Board of Education, Curriculum Coordinator, Building Principal. There is very little for the teacher to do in the classroom besides crowd control, present the predetermined lessons in the pre-determined way, and adapting the lessons for the main-streemed, disabled, and IEP students.
The real issue is the growing dependance on Government for a paycheck. Time after time, the students that are not achieving regardless of income, race, creed, or religion are those who come from families that are producing children for a paycheck – yes a paycheck. These otherwise unloved and unwanted children are the ones that are taking all of the schools resources away from the rest of the children who could achieve great things, if they could only get a little of the teachers time and resources. But they cannot because Timmy is again pounding Susie to the ground, because
Timmy’s social worker said that the school is not allowed to discipline him because of his background.
Fastest and most brutal way of fixing this problem? Stop increasing the handouts for additional children in our social services. If you start with no children – no children can be added/supported. If you start with 4, the 5th cannot count toward HEAP, Family Services Handouts, SNAP, Free Lunches… In other words dis-incentize having paycheck chi
Report Post »LetsThinkAboutThis
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:48amLet me quickly add that this is not all that the teachers do. They do a whole, whole lot more. Anyone ever heard of the “No Child Left UnTested Act” passed by president Bush?
Report Post »Aquinas
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:25amThe red herring of over sized classrooms in public schools continues to be used to build more and more failure. Anecdotal evidence: Classrooms in my Catholic grade school averaged 60-70 students: we all learned how to read and write, add and subtract, etc. Perhaps of the 56% that fail in schools are being bored to tears with pap?
Report Post »LetsThinkAboutThis
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 7:38amI would suspect that if you went to Catholic School you had two parents who loved and cared for you? Try getting a 2nd grader to achieve anything who has the attitude that ‘school does not matter because [she] is just going to work with her mom at McDonnalds.
Sadly, yet another paycheck child.
Report Post »tiredofprogressives
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 2:43amWell that is a stupid question. If we got rid of nuclear weapons and Russia doesn’t does that mean we are at risk also?
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 1:16amLook what the U.S. Department is headed by, then answer your own question. Look at the text books, teachers and the unions who are promoting Obama’s agenda into this education system. This has been going on for years before Obama, but are about given free reign to destroy the children through dumbing them down and teaching things are are confusing. Treating others who do not earn good grades, as pitiful and deserving, when most of the time there are not excuses for poor work, just rebellion and an environment that punishes the bright. Yes we are beyond a security RISK even to a hugh security BREACH.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 1:08amIt is no only a risk, but it is a breach. Way past a breach for that matter.
Report Post »possom
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 12:19amWhen you have 18 yr old kid‘s graduating high school and they can’t read then something is really wrong!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 29, 2012 at 12:04amIQ is not equal… not in Students… not in Teachers… not in Government… not amoung the FRC Members… nor among Workers performing the same Tasks Education is about Enhancing one’s Ability to obtain a Job and to fit into Society. In the end… “Grades”, High or Low, are Meaningless… because we only seek a Competent Worker for a Particual Job… and Education is not suppose to be part of a Business’ Personnel Department!
I am saying: Your Ability to work well at any given Job IS NOT necessarily based upon Our Education System… but you maybe a Natural, Self Educated, or Home Schooled… and the Real Evalution of Success is in the Job Performed. And, maybe a Monkey could perform the current Job of Labor Union President… or POTUS… better than the actual holders!
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