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Monday, June 03, 2019

The History And Results Of America's Disastrous Public School System

All across the nation, students are being prodded like cattle into classrooms, and the one-size-fits-all approach is failing them.

There is a popular saying that “the proof is in the pudding.” In the first part of this article set, my colleague Mike Margeson spelled out the historical roots of the American schooling system. He clearly laid out the blueprint that men like Horace Mann used to build a system that does anything but “educates.” Factor in that trillions of dollars have been spent on schooling, and it makes it even harder to justify.


A Broken System
Yet we continue to hear the “Red for Ed” crowd scream for more funding. Here in the state of Indiana, the superintendent of public education is leading an assault on the state legislature for a meager 2 percent increase in state funding. Many educators are characterizing this as a decrease in funding! In no other walk of life would we continue to pour so many resources into a failed system. If you had any doubt about this after reading Part One, let me present you with some facts.

In what was one of many fiery speaking engagements, the late John Taylor Gatto delivered a line that has resonated with me as I have studied the effects the public schooling system has on children. In this particular speech, Gatto was recounting the story of Jaime Escalante, the educator who successfully taught calculus at Garfield High School in Los Angeles yet was forced to resign.

As he finishes describing the trials and fate of Escalante, Gatto explains that above racism and other forms of bigotry is the embedded idea that what really occurred was a deliberate attempt to stop genuine learning. Earlier in the speech, Gatto laid out a compelling case of how and why schooling is meant to keep citizens ignorant. This success at an inner city school was not going to be tolerated by the establishment. He implored his listeners to understand the real problem and to quit “fencing with shadows.”

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5 comments:

  1. Unions and progressive politics have destroyed our education system. How do we stop it!!SCHOOL VOUCHERS..let me direct where my tax education dollars go...public schools are last on the list

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  2. It did exactly what it was supposed to do.
    It worked perfectly.

    Think about that for a minute.
    The elites suck

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  3. Need to break the teachers union and end their expensive pensions. They won't be affordable with the massive unemployment that is coming.

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  4. There is no such thing as a Public School.

    They are goverment schools.

    SBJ

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  5. Wicomico county just had some type of awards ceremony on pac14 and some idiot speaker hot up bragging about the ridiculous six figure incomes their fleecing taxpayers for. Bureaucracy at the county, stare and federal levels are out of control.

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