{"id":60552,"date":"2020-10-10T00:56:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T05:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=60552"},"modified":"2020-10-10T00:56:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T05:56:37","slug":"60552","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=60552","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

H-O-M-E-S-C-H-O-O-L !
\n“Just do it”<\/p>\n

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WHAT OUR CHILDREN LEARN IN SCHOOL<\/a><\/p>\n

Our public schools are run, for the most part, by liberal administrators, and teachers are drawn, usually, from the lowest quadrant of academic ability among college graduates. There are exceptions, of course, but the overall level of instruction in the public schools is abysmal. And that isn\u2019t the worst of it: teachers who are marginally able, at best, to teach the subjects for which they are nominally responsible often devote themselves to political indoctrination instead.<\/p>\n

Most such forays into left-wing mythology go unreported, but occasionally an enterprising kid turns on his phone and records a teacher\u2019s rant. That happened a few weeks ago in a 9th grade Geography class in a suburban Twin Cities high school:<\/p>\n


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The teacher\u2019s ignorance is cosmic: 1) There is no \u201cSpeaker of the Senate.\u201d 2) McConnell didn\u2019t say there wasn\u2019t enough time to confirm Merrick Garland. 3) The idea that \u201clife in America is gonna change radically\u201d if there is a conservative majority on the Supreme Court is a fantasy. 4) \u201cThis is an opinion of the court\u201d? Sheer incoherence. 5) \u201cConservatives believe that corporations should be considered humans and should have rights.\u201d Stupid beyond belief. No one has ever said that a corporation is a human, nor has anyone ever denied that corporations have rights. This is why, for example, President Trump can\u2019t shut down CNN and the New York Times. Tempting though it may be.<\/p>\n

In this particular case, the kid\u2019s parents are fighting back and taking the teacher\u2019s incompetent and inappropriate conduct to the local school board. But this kind of thing goes on every day, in thousands of classrooms across the country. Almost never are there consequences.<\/p>\n

A colleague of mine had an idea that I think has merit. She thinks that if parents knew this kind of political indoctrination is going on, teachers would stop, or at least scale back. Thus, every classroom should be streamed online, and parents of kids in every class should be given access to the stream. At any moment, a parent could check in and see exactly what is going on in his son\u2019s or daughter\u2019s classroom. This is much like the manner in which parents use cameras in their homes to keep tabs on what babysitters are up to. Given the quality of instruction in our public schools, the analogy is almost perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

H-O-M-E-S-C-H-O-O-L ! “Just do it” WHAT OUR CHILDREN LEARN IN SCHOOL Our public schools are run, for the most part, by liberal administrators, and teachers are drawn, usually, from the lowest quadrant of academic ability among college graduates. There are exceptions, of course, but the overall level of instruction in the public schools is abysmal. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-education-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60555,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60552\/revisions\/60555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}