Liberal states and cities with education monopolies have failed kids for decades, but more recently, the problem of illiteracy has gotten more attention than they’d like. Kids can’t read.
Their backward, overly religious ancestors were far more proficient without the benefit or burden of a public education system. A system that once focused first on literacy, numeracy, history, and argument or debate. Rob Roper just published a piece on some of the particulars of this systemic failure with a focus on Vermont, another Dem-run state in many facets of decline. It is a problem decades in the making, which our own Dr. Jody Underwood delved into, sharing a series of articles based on her research.
The Education Industrial Complex and its apologists took a shine to the notion that COVID remote learning was to blame for observable ignorance. Dr. Underwood undercut their presumption with data.
Oddly enough, had children been taught to read, the pandemic would likely have had less, if any, impact. A student who can read is capable of self-learning. It’s one of the few things upon which any education system needs to focus. A competent reader can teach themselves almost anything with some direction or encouragement from an adult who can answer questions or help them manage the proper order of study.
In many cases, it is for very little money or even for free online. It is not an insurmountable problem unless kids can’t read.
Homeschoolers and private or charter school kids tend to do a lot better on shoestring budgets with limited or no staff or teachers. Just an adult or a handful managing groups of kids across several residences in shared learning environments. This schooling ignores fads or trends or frivolous ideological nonsense and focuses on reading becasue it is the foundation of learning.
Vermont might be struggling, but Oregon, a place it likes to emulate, is in dire straights. Their education system is so bad they have to waive proficiency testing altogether to get kids to graduation.
Oregon’s high school students will not have to prove basic proficiency in reading, writing, or math to graduate until 2029, the state board of education decided Thursday.
The Oregon Board of Education’s unanimous decision extends the pandemic era pause on the graduation requirement, which was paused in 2021 through the end of the current school year by former Governor Kate Brown, a Democrat.
You would be correct to ask from what, precisely, have they graduated from or to? The educrats are pretending it is still something with value.
“We haven’t suspended any sort of assessments,” state board member Vicky López Sánchez, who is also a dean at Portland Community College, said Thursday. “The only thing we are suspending is the inappropriate use of how those assessments were being used. I think that really is in the best interest of Oregon students.”
So, you still have the assessments in a file cabinet somewhere; you’re just not going to use them. I get it. And why would you? “Advocates for pausing the graduation requirement previously argued that the test puts certain children, including minority and low-income children, at a disadvantage.”
So, are the minority students placed in your care for one purpose, incapable of the skills you are meant to teach, or did you fail or refuse to teach them because the only disadvantage I can see is their inability to escape the bloated, failing school system in which you’ve trapped them. A complex problem whose roots all lead back to Democrat policy.
Make all the excuses you want, but at the end of the day, two things are true. Minorities are more than capable of learning to read and thus learning anything else (and thriving), and the city public school system (in particular) has proven incapable or unwilling to let that happen.
Are you incompetent or evil?
A little of both?
HT | Daily Wire
