“Indoctrination” – A Must Read For Parents, Taxpayers and Everyone Else

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“Indoctrination” – A Must Read For Parents, Taxpayers and Everyone Else
December 4, 2011 By Larry Sand

To a large extent, the progressives have taken over American education, are transforming it and are doing it in plain sight.

Indoctrination: How ‘Useful Idiots’ Are Using Our Schools to Subvert American Exceptionalism is an invaluable book written by Kyle Olson, founder and CEO of the Education Action Group, an organization that is on the frontline of education reform and a champion of school choice.

In this brief and very readable book, Olson describes the ways that the progressives in our society have taken over K-12 education. They have been running most of our elite colleges and schools of education for years now and this step is in keeping with their plan to transform America.

As a public school teacher whose career spanned four decades, I have seen the long march first hand. Perverting the traditional purpose of American education (which has been to make better and more educated citizens), progressives have been inspired by the theories of Paolo Freire, a Brazilian socialist who saw everything through a Marxist class warfare lens.

Carrying Freire’s mantle, current gurus like revolutionary terrorist Bill Ayers and the recently deceased Communist Howard Zinn have been behind the effort to destroy America as we know it. They claim that basically the U.S. and its capitalist system are the root of all evil. Unfortunately, their love-the-world/hate-America attitude has gained an incredible amount of currency in our public schools in a relatively short time. Ayers, Zinn and their ilk have essentially managed to convince much of the education establishment to abandon every teaching technique and curriculum that benefited prior generations. For example, “drill and kill” has been thrown on the refuse heap; we are now supposed to let our students “discover” learning. The “sage on the stage” has been replaced by the “guide on the side.” The only problem with these techniques is that they haven’t worked, but they do sound good (at least to the progressives.) As such, we are now raising a nation of dunces.

Not really new news to us, but still.......

Dumbing down America

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Not really new news to us, but still.......

Dumbing down America

In my openion the education of kids got its first and greatest kick in the head when the slide rule went out and the handy dandy hand held calculator came in to the grade schools.   

Reading got a huge boost when the PC came in, spelling kicked aside when the text messaging became popular.

Anyone remember Current Events in highschool????    Today no teacher in their right mind wanted to have a class room of Freshmen talking about Clinton and say "teacher, what is a BJ?????"----Fancy the look on a NUNS face in Catholic highschools.

One just cannot get away from it, Geography and Italy's ex-leader with his Boom-BA-Boomba party's. ETC.

State history and leaders that run off, divorce their wives to have a same sex marriage.   

We cannot blame all this on teachers that are confused themselves about ever happend to Reading Writing and Arithmetic . Hell what ever happend to the old hickory stick????

A good many of you guys and gals were not even born when the NEW MATH came in.   Wonderful, now the parents could not help with homework as they had no idea how to.    Mo memerisiation of the times tables and look out the World is on a metric scale while us silly Americans still insisted on using fractions, such a waste of time.

Is it any wonder kids taught Metric through out the world out perform our kids in Math ???

Bright side note, the kids into selling drugs know metric upside down, in and out.