As a Teacher for 26 Years, I’ve Seen How We Dumbed Down Education — and How Kids Suffer; [IS THIS A SURPRISE TO ANYONE?] Public School Teachers Deliver Unhinged Rants Over Trump Victory

As a teacher for 26 years, I’ve seen how we dumbed down education — and how kids suffer:

Recently, writing in the Acton Institute’s Religion and Liberty Online, a Texas high-school teacher, Auguste Meyrat, brilliantly formulated the most precise description of education in post-COVID America: vegetative education.

As he writes, “Teachers in past decades have been faced with two choices: educating students with challenging material and frequent grading or engaging them with fun projects and participation grades.”

What is he talking about?

What does modern classroom instruction look like these days?

To put it mildly: A lot of it is not very good.

We can abolish the federal Department of Education, offer lip service about bolstering parental rights and abolishing DEI policies.

But unless we acknowledge the hollowness of conventional classroom instruction, it won’t make a bit of difference.

Here’s the dead giveaway: Our students suffer from a pathology of low expectations for themselves and especially for their teachers.

Many of the best and most experienced teachers I know tell me they have noticed something peculiar about their new students: They ask questions that reveal an academic ecosystem brimming with mediocrity: Are we doing anything today?

When do we get to have fun?

Hold on, I have to read at home?

Their expectations of ease don’t come from nowhere.

Instead of classrooms powered by lectures, student note-taking, robust discussions and frequent exams that require actual studying, we teachers are often encouraged to “meet students where they are.”

As a result, American students often spend their time watching YouTube videos, endlessly gaming online or engaging in distractions without end. —>READ MORE HERE

Public School Teachers Deliver Unhinged Rants Over Trump Victory

“I have a daughter, three nieces and he’d rape them, and people are voting for him.”

Leftist indoctrination in our public K-12 classrooms has increasingly emerged as a pivotal issue in local and national politics and the reaction of educators to Donald Trump’s victory in the election on November 5th has revealed that parents and taxpayers are right to be concerned. Trump’s win has unleashed a slew of unhinged ravings from radical leftist teachers who channeled their anger at the former, and now future, president into classroom tirades.

At Chino High School in Southern California, an English teacher couldn’t contain his rage when he saw a student wearing a Trump hat in class. “Just do the warm-up. I’m pissed,” the educator told his students. “People voting for a freaking rapist and I’m pissed off. I don’t care, fire the hell out of me. I’m fighting for my daughter, my nieces, their rights.”

The rant, which was captured on video, continued for some minutes. “A child molester, huh? Vote for that freaking rapist,” he added. “I have a daughter, three nieces and he’d rape them, and people are voting for him. Christians are voting for him — bunch of losers, fake Christians.”

The teacher has been placed on leave, although hundreds of Chino High students have signed a petition and staged a walkout in his defense.

At Valley View High School, also located in Southern California, AP History Teacher Maximiliano Perez treated his students to a similar diatribe about the horrors of Trump’s reelection.

“This shit [the election] is not a fucking game” Perez said, explaining to his students that they could “end up in a concentration camp” and have “no human rights.”

The educator also complained that “black and brown men” didn’t vote for Kamala Harris, and posited that the reason they didn’t is due to internalized racism since he knows “a lot of Latino men who wish they were white” — including the “fathers, uncles, and grandfathers” of his students.

“God, they wanna be White so bad but they never will be,” Perez says. “I hate that shit. I hate Latino men that oppress the women in their family, their own daughters. And then they turn around and vote for men who want to oppress them.”

Perez also attacked President-elect Trump directly, calling him “treasonous scum” and a “rapist, draft-dodging coward.” He implied that misogyny was responsible for Kamala Harris’s defeat, asking his class why people would vote for Joe Biden, a “geriatric, old Republican racist who’s running as a Democrat,” but would not cast ballots for Harris, who he described as having an “effective policy for the future” but also a “vagina,” a “uterus,” and “melanin.” —>READ MORE HERE

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