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If you want to look into the hearts and minds of the Democrat Party, Liberal Establishment, Media Elite, all you have to do is look into the hearts, minds of the people who ran your public school

Memo to American teenagers and millennials



Reflect for a few minutes on your experience in school, especially if you went to a public school. Were you taught as much as you could have been taught? Were your schools set up to increase your learning and your mastery of basic skills? When you were in elementary school, did the school teach you to read right away? If a store was selling something for $10 and now there is a 15% discount, do you know what the new price is? If you read in a book that the Civil War occurred in the middle of the 19th century, do you know what years that is, even roughly? The poi
When it comes to something important like counting to 200, learning the history of the country, or anything else that you can easily teach children, these ideologues get all wobbly. Reading is suddenly beyond their wildest dreams. (Instead, they've got ways to teach reading so that children in the sixth grade can hardly read at all.) The point here is you can learn a lot about these people by the schools they set up, and by how good a job they did with you personally. For many years, you lived in a world that they created and shaped. You experienced their capabilities at first hand. How good a job did they do? Were you educated in such a way that you were using all your talents and resources? Were you developed and pushed to do better and better work? Isn't that every child's birthright? You should be taken to the limit that you are capable of, shouldn't you? Did that happen in your case? Typically, in the United States half the children do not even learn to read, at least not comfortably and fluently. The majority of children never become adept with basic math. As far as general knowledge is concerned, Americans are becoming increasingly empty-headed. Pollsters ask college kids: how many stars on the American flag? Where is Japan on a map or for that matter where's Alaska on a map? Kids don't know because nobody ever expected them to learn and retain facts. You may think this is an article about education—not exactly. It's about malfeasance and misgovernance. It's about extremist ideologues who are perfectly happy to dumb you down because they want to keep control of you.

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The deliberate dumbing down of America

All you have to do is ask, in your personal contacts with these people, the ones running your schools, do you feel they were taking good care of you? Do you feel they were concerned about you, and trying to give you the best possible preparation for the rest of your life? If you suspect that your education was flawed and substandard from start to finish, take the time to understand why this happened. Maybe the people in charge were never primarily concerned about your future but about their future. They are trying to build a certain kind of society, and you have to be trained to fit into it. You have to be pushed, pulled, flattened and molded so that you can take your place in their Brave New World. So if you want to look into the hearts and minds of the Democrat Party, the Liberal Establishment and the Media Elite, all you have to do is look into the hearts and minds of the people who ran your schools. In particular, principals, administrators, superintendents, and officials at all levels up to the Secretary of Education and the president. A book appeared around 1990 titled "The deliberate dumbing down of America." What a shocking thought that is. But can you disprove it from your own experience? Or, when you look back, do you see clearly that your schools were in fact trying to dumb you down?


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Bruce Deitrick Price has been writing about education for 30 years. He is the founder of Improve-Education.org. His eighth book is “Saving K-12—What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?” More aggressively than most, Price argues that America’s elite educators have deliberately aimed for mediocrity—low standards in public schools prove this. Support this writer on Patreon.


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