....as long as it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberalism, Incorporated.
Rather than teaching facts, and holding students accountable, the Left has a very different agenda.
It is to inculcate, indoctrinate, and turn out non-thinking Democrat acolytes.
The following is a sad-but-try example of why America cannot be what it once was.
1. "... all 164 of Washington D.C. Frank W. Ballou Senior High School’s graduating seniors last year applied for and were accepted to college...
2. ...98 percent of Ballou’s 930 students were African-Americans, and two percent were Hispanic/Latino,...
3. One hundred percent of them were considered “academically disadvantaged” by the system.
With a graduating class the school system considered “academically disadvantaged,” someone in the school district should have smelled a rat.
4. ....this happy story collapsed in November, when an investigation by WAMU and NPR found that the much-ballyhooed Ballou graduated dozens of these students despite high rates of unexcused absences throughout their senior year. Half of them missed more than three months of school. One in five was absent more than present.
5. Kids like this deserve the great opportunity that a high-quality, character-building education can help provide. There was a time when good educators, in fact, would tirelessly fight to give it to them. Those days are apparently over.
6. ....Ballou’s administrators and some teachers cooked the books, used taxpayer money to commit fraud, and above all harmed poor black youths and their futures the most.
7. ....teachers, saying they felt pressure to pass failing students and get them to graduation, cooperated with the investigation.
8. An internal e-mail shows that in April, just two months before the end of the school year, only 57 students were on track to graduate. Many of the others could scarcely read or write.
9. NPR’s report led teachers from around the country to share similar situations in many other districts. This is a nationwide academic scandal..."
The Dumbing Down of Scholastic Achievement
10. And not just an nationwide academic scandal.
At its root, it is due to the major political party valuing its power as far more important than the citizenry, or the nation itself.
As long as the Democrats are wedded to the teacher's unions, and accept the substandard product turned out by government schools,....
....American education will never recover.
Rather than teaching facts, and holding students accountable, the Left has a very different agenda.
It is to inculcate, indoctrinate, and turn out non-thinking Democrat acolytes.
The following is a sad-but-try example of why America cannot be what it once was.
1. "... all 164 of Washington D.C. Frank W. Ballou Senior High School’s graduating seniors last year applied for and were accepted to college...
2. ...98 percent of Ballou’s 930 students were African-Americans, and two percent were Hispanic/Latino,...
3. One hundred percent of them were considered “academically disadvantaged” by the system.
With a graduating class the school system considered “academically disadvantaged,” someone in the school district should have smelled a rat.
4. ....this happy story collapsed in November, when an investigation by WAMU and NPR found that the much-ballyhooed Ballou graduated dozens of these students despite high rates of unexcused absences throughout their senior year. Half of them missed more than three months of school. One in five was absent more than present.
5. Kids like this deserve the great opportunity that a high-quality, character-building education can help provide. There was a time when good educators, in fact, would tirelessly fight to give it to them. Those days are apparently over.
6. ....Ballou’s administrators and some teachers cooked the books, used taxpayer money to commit fraud, and above all harmed poor black youths and their futures the most.
7. ....teachers, saying they felt pressure to pass failing students and get them to graduation, cooperated with the investigation.
8. An internal e-mail shows that in April, just two months before the end of the school year, only 57 students were on track to graduate. Many of the others could scarcely read or write.
9. NPR’s report led teachers from around the country to share similar situations in many other districts. This is a nationwide academic scandal..."
The Dumbing Down of Scholastic Achievement
10. And not just an nationwide academic scandal.
At its root, it is due to the major political party valuing its power as far more important than the citizenry, or the nation itself.
As long as the Democrats are wedded to the teacher's unions, and accept the substandard product turned out by government schools,....
....American education will never recover.
