Crackerjaxon
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Public schools, and to a lesser degree, the military, are just one big ol' Skinner box for liberal neo-scientists to run addle-pated experiments. You'd think that real scientists would be open to teleological examination of living matter, but, hell no. Their big objection is that evidence of design implies a designer -- and we certainly can't have that.
It's CREATIONISM!!! It's CREATIONISM!!
Instead, our children are being taught an amoral, nihilistic view of the universe against the wishes of parents and responsible administrators. That's OK, though, because they are so much smarter than we are. So we need to just shut up and leave it to professionals who are "scientifically" trained.
The sad truth is that schools of education are receptacles for the dregs of academia. Courses include such profound studies as the operation of video devices and how to determine reading level by the number of multi-syballic words a child understands.
Classroom discipline models are taught, usually with a Skinnerian basis, reducing our children to the level of rats in a maze. Standardized tests are anathema because they know full well that our children won't pass them because they aren't given the tools to do so under our present system. In fact, most teachers couldn't pass them because they are victims of the same educational system.
Oddly, this downhill slide started when the federal government, in all its glorified wisdom, decided to form the Department of Education. The name is Orwellian in nature. It should be named the Department of Stilted Ignorance.
And yet like the OP you fail to provide any objective, documented, accepted evidence that this is a ‘program’ orchestrated or advocated by ‘the left.’
This is mere subjective partisan opinion.
No, it's informed opinion. Having been through the program of a department of education, taught in the public schools and having seen things with my own eyes, I, unlike you, know what I'm talking about.
In fact, your empty-headed insistence on "objective documented evidence" is indicative of your lack of real education. I'm sorry, but not everything fits neatly into the hole in which you wish to force it.
If you really want "objective, documented evidence," simply mosey on over to any history of test scores since the advent of the Department of Education. You will see a slow, steady decline.
I realize you want to sit on your ass and have me provide them for you, but the plain truth is I don't have the time or inclination to do it.
Your argument is a stupid ad hominem (call your adversary a liar and demand an appeal to authority) typical of a victim of public education.
Can you deny that there has been a steady decline in test scores since your benevolent government founded the Department of Education?
No, you can't. You can only hem and haw and make unreasonable demands.
Can you provide a single instance of over-all improvement in any facet of education since the beginning of the Department of Education?
Nope.
Is there a direct causal connection between the Department of Education and the decline in test scores? No. One can only surmise given what one knows from direct observation.
Besides, according to neoscience, causality is a thing of the past. All you have to do is link any two incidents together and imply causation, right?
Cigarettes and cancer. Greenhouse gases and global warming. Gun violence and the availability of firearms.
The truth is that American public education is a joke and the Department of Education, through its meddling, is largely responsible.
How can you deny that?
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