The public school system is a jobs program for progressives. A local “franchise” of the Big Government expansion machine. The one that creates problems so it can grow itself and use your money to pay them to help progressives stay in power. The war on poverty, the war on drugs, every moral call to war is a systemic effort to divert trillions of dollars to make problems worse.
Public education is in a very sad state, but one in which much of other people’s money is invested. It is also unique in its place. While no one is calling for a war on failed public education, if they did, it would only make matters worse, and now that I’ve mentioned it, I’m sorry I gave them the idea.
Public Ed Needs to be DOGE’d. Significant sums are spent on non-productive purposes and extracurricular activities at the expense of students. A problem that, in itself, creates another opportunity to launder money into the hands of progressives.
Increasingly stupid graduates are driven like sheep into universities where they are expected to pay vast sums for learning children once mastered by Middle School. Sure, they can’t tell you what a woman is, or are simply afraid to try, but reading, math, even the most basic intellectual agility, escapes them. They don’t know how to study and are unfamiliar with what homework is and how to complete it.
Because it would be unfair to prevent deliberately manufactured dolts from paying more, at higher institutions for lower learning, entrance exams and scores were tweaked or managed to make sure the children the system failed could fail at college.
The University of California‘s landmark decision to eliminate standardized testing has now come under scrutiny as professors shed light on the extreme proficiency failures undergraduate students have demonstrated. …
More than 600 professors have signed the letter, pushing back on the argument that standardized tests eliminate equity in the application process.
‘The SAT/ACT mathematics requirement is not an obstacle to equity; rather, it is a prerequisite for it,’ the professors said.
‘Failing to measure preparation gaps does not remove barriers; it moves them into the classroom, where they become harder to overcome.’
Down below, in the Public Schools, the problem of the preparation gap and/or all the other various distractions and disruptions forced into classrooms that make learning impossible are simply ignored. Students are advanced despite lacking either the ability or the opportunity to learn. At the college level, they’ve not yet come round to that idea, probably because they are actually accountable.
According to these professors, the indifference of public educators and their administrators should not be embraced in higher education.
‘We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics while simultaneously teaching the material students need for sciences, engineering, economics, and other quantitatively demanding fields,’ the professors wrote. …
‘Something had changed drastically. The bottom was taken out, and there were 25 to 30 percent of the students who were in free fall. There was nothing you could do for them. They were just not prepared,’ she said, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The real world expects graduates to have degrees that represent actual skills. The more prestigious the establishment, the more likely a placement; the higher the starting pay, the more likely they are to pay off any debt exchanged for the job and its wealth-creating potential.
The real world is increasingly not impressed.
Hiring managers are less likely to consider a degree as proof of ability. Modern-day college graduates are arriving with baggage that creates workplace conflict and expectations of consideration. Put another way. They are whiny and entitled troublemakers. While this is a separate problem – it is entirely likely that brilliant people will be a pain in the ass – Colleges that make the classroom a struggle for the bright kids are doing more than a disservice to everyone in the room. Professors do not need to teach classes they can’t fill because the product is damaged.
A product that begins with public education and its manifold failures, not the least of which is that it alone is responsible for the property tax burdens that are driving people out of homes or keeping them affordable. It’s a new kind of gentrification. One where only the wealthy can afford even modest digs, from which they send their kids to private or charter schools that must prove their value.
Progressives are to blame, but so are taxpayers who continue to reward them with more money for not just a declining product but one that increasingly damages their children’s mental and physical health. Until the system is stripped down to its bones and learning becomes the first and only priority, public schools will churn out learning-deprived children incapable of higher learning, which was entirely the point, but not one you have to sit on your hands and accept.
