I think the root of the “indoctrination” and dumbing down of kids should be pulled first (the far-left plan). Don’t allow it to go on as it has!
Then disband the unions. They seem to be all about money and power and doing what the “root” dictates. (The unions shouldn’t pressure or promise their members to vote a certain way. I don’t think they should “endorse” any political person/party. Education should be neutral!)
Fire all the corrupt school district superintendent’s/managers. Hire new ones and let them know misuse of public money is a fireable offense. Ensure all schools within the district are treated equitably with books, supplies, monies.
And finally, get rid of all the teachers who can’t leave their ultra-feminist, man hating, white guilt, just want a pay check, no motivation, pro-multi-gender, SJW mental, prejudice/racist, sub-par beliefs/habits at home. No more far-left agenda teaching.
Hire new teachers with strict job requirements. (Like leave your political, religious, uber-feminist, hates at home, or you’re fired.)
Develop end-of-school-year teacher assessments that are realistic, scientific, etc. If a teacher can’t meet their job requirements, don’t invite them back next year. Hire new people who will.
Don’t teach to a test. Give a variety of learning methods (using all the senses) and options (computers, language, automotive, carpentry, entrepreneurship, etc.) so kids can learn at their pace (a student may be in Level 4 Math, Level 7 English and so on).
And ensure school text books are factual/accurate and NOT pushing an agenda. Teach high schoolers about personal finance and the cost of higher education options. Teach them to start thinking about a vocation, then teach them how to properly look for and get a job! (This needs to be more than just part of a semester!) JMHO
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And a few more things: We need to somehow remove the influence of Big Education — by which I mean the college & university machine — from the equation. “BE” is what influences schools of teacher training and thereby creates the indoctrination mindset among teachers, and it’s what causes teachers to become tools of the unions. IOW, colleges of education help indoctrinate the indoctrinators.
Secondly, parents and counselors need to get over the idea that college is a right and a necessity for every child, and that those without a bachelors’ degree are doomed to lives of poverty and failure. There needs to be more respect for trades, vocations and other careers that don’t require four mind-numbing years of studying sociology, political science and all the other dreck that saturates college curricula. If that were accomplished, students wouldn’t be saddled with debt while struggling to find productive careers.
Yes, a complete overhaul.
Now I understand why schools and the govt. were pushing the college route for so many years.
To burden them with debt and to indoctrinate.
But how to rout out all the corruption?
The FIRST thing we need to do to fix the schools is to take them back from the Democrat control! None of your ideas will happen as long as Dems control the institutions. They never intended for schools to be a place to educate our children, but rather their entire intent was to create a class of semi-educated laborers just smart enough to work, but not educated enough to know what their rights are or notice when they’re being stripped slowly away. This is exactly why Dems made it illegal for slaves to be taught to read and write.
I honestly don’t think the public education system will ever give up their control, though. Private schools aren’t much better. I think the best solution is maybe form some homeschool co-ops, or something along those lines.
I agree with you – Dee’s ideas are good and if implemented would provide an environment that would actually turn out educated people, but all the while I was reading them I was thinking it would never happen because of the reason you stated – education in our public schools, and many private schools, is socialist brainwashing meant to yield mindless drones mouthing the party line and doing as their told.
All of your ideas are the solution to many of the problems killing our country.
My classmates in a Masters of Education degree program were majority public school teachers.
Over the 3 year program I heard loads of stories from them, read lots of “solution” type papers, etc.
The topics were many. School safety, principal/superintendent support, student lack of respect, parents who blamed everything on teachers, unequal distribution of federal dollars amongst schools in their districts, out of pocket expenses not reimbursed, forced inappropriate curriculum, lack of parental involvement, teaching to the SAT (or other) versus practical knowledge needed as an adult.
But they all said no one would listen to them or back them up. Suggestions were taken, but never used. They were afraid to create a push against things because teachers often “quit” or were fired not long after doing so.
Sounds like a mafia type organization to me.
I went into the degree program to be a school teacher but decided instead on adult education.
The public school system seemed to me to be a mini D.C. with all the politics, bribes, graft, etc.
But I think if parents would stick together and force the firings of the main school people in their area and root out the unions it would be a start.
In every profession or position in government leadership begets the outcome. When women entered the workplace en masse, schools became de facto babysitters and indoctrination centers. Mothers had less time for parenting or being involved in the schools. PTA’s were taken over by leftists, and schools have gradually become the surrogate parents of our children.
It is a crime, an abomination, that schools have taken authority away from parents and given it to themselves. Children are being encouraged to make horrific life-changing decisions at ages far too young, i.e. transitioning to the opposite sex, and actively helped to achieve them. Parents are going to jail in Canada trying to intervene, and probably in California, Washington State. Oregon, Chicago and New York City as well.
Why, indeed, are parents not coming together to force the firing of school administrations who perpetrate child abuse? Because they have abdicated their roles of responsibility for their children far too often, until finally, it is too late.