#academic malpractice

“Why would we have any trust in our government or the educational institutions and legacy news organizations who today act as propagandists for campaigns of hatred directed at Americans who do not want to be forced to abandon their faith, patriotism, and freedom? The leadership of our nation has perhaps never been more egregiously distant and disconnected—yet simultaneously demanding and damaging—during the entire course of our 250-year history.”

“We today live in a society that has largely abandoned the “3 R’s” that are needed to glue any country together—responsibility, restraint, and reason—so it is not a mystery why learning has taken a backseat to mindless distraction.”

“We want to make our students college and career ready…. Nowhere in college do you get 50% for doing nothing. Nowhere in the world of work do you get 50% for doing nothing…If I don’t show up to work, they don’t pay me 50% of my salary even if I made a reasonable attempt to get there.” (However, this keeps the classroom seats filled, the state aid based on mere attendance—results be damned—rolls in, and another generation of graduates is robbed of their futures. Welcome to Woke public education!)

I wrote this nearly a decade ago. I don’t think I would change a word.

Just a reminder of why I (a retired teacher) detest teacher unions:

From my blog archive:

“A while back I purchased the reading textbook I was using in 5th grade back in 1969 as a used book from Amazon, and I was astonished to find that the material was so entertaining and challenging. The stories were set on the American frontier, the South American pampas, a Viking village, and Thomas Jefferson’s home in Monticello and coupled with selections from Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, T.S. Eliot—and even the Book of Job. Speaking as an educator, it was enough to drive me crazy when I consider the thoroughgoing ignorance of history and our world culture that is now commonplace among high school graduates—and often leaves them staring uncomprehendingly at even modestly challenging readings.”

“ . . . as much as one might feel badly for young adults who suddenly discover their college coursework did not prepare them adequately, we must recognize that continuing to hand out Bachelor’s degrees to the incompetent does deep and lasting harm our entire nation—damage that continues to erode our prosperity, civic order, and national security on a daily basis.”