Captain Ed reports .
Excerpt referring to the NEA radicalization of our public school values in the last 40 years or so:
"Teachers flunked students who weren't ready for the next grade level before schools started worring about socialization ahead of education. The plethora of high-school students who cannot read or write above a grade-school level demonstrates the damage that these policies have created, especially considering the amount of teacher involvement it takes to handle the low-performing students."
When you combine this effect with the impulse of school systems everywhere to continue to ask for more money most of the time , and the bureaucratic statism found in such systems, it's clear that major reform is desperately need.
The answer is NOT "more money" by itself.
It would appear that nowhere are these statement more true than in Guilford County.
30 years ago I was talking myself blue and writing articles about the idiocy of this program of social promotion, especially in the first four grades, but to no avial. Teachers and low level instructors with experience in the classroom never had a chance against the male dominated Ph.D class who set policy in our universities. BB
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