The orchestration
and manipulation of our youth, and now our young adults; (of voting age) began
in 2000 with the election of George W., but it was only exacerbated with
President Obama and Arne Duncan’s system of teacher evaluations, based on test
scores. Bush’s No Child Left Behind created a climate in which teachers taught TO
the test in order to keep their jobs, or to stop from being publicly ridiculed
in staff meetings for having the lowest test scores. Now please think of what
you would do if your job were dependent on one day, in the life, of a child, and
his or her test scores, on that ONE day.
Teaching to the test, a test, which only scores Math and Reading, means
schools have to set new priorities in scheduling. When the very existence of a school
depends on test scores, districts make ridiculous decisions like requiring four
hours a day, every day, of Reading and Math.
In those four hours, students are taught a “Standardized” scripted
curriculum, which excludes Science and Social Studies, and mandates how to
teach and exactly what to teach with no time for teacher autonomy or professional
experience to make an impact. In a six
hour day where Lunch, recess, Music and PE are required, that doesn’t leave
much for Social Studies or Science; the two very subjects where culture,
tolerance, government, constitutions, questioning, Scientific principles and
reasoning, are taught, usually.
I am going to
say, “I told you so,” because I did.
After Bush was elected, and enacted his educational policies, I knew we
would be entering a new dark age in which we would be raising a generation of
mindless, children; ignorant and intolerant of other cultures, who would not
know where Europe was located, let alone, Iraq or Afghanistan. I warned my colleagues, and anyone who would
listen, in 2000, of this very situation today.
These individuals have no idea of the mistakes cultures and societies
have made in the past, which means they are doomed to repeat them. I did not want Obama to be President when he
ran against Hillary because I knew his “Basketball buddy’s” educational policies
would continue this plague of ignorance.
Obama left everything to Arne and devoted his time to a health care
system with so many Republican earmarks it shouldn’t be called Obama Care, but Republicans Don’t Care or The Lower Middle Class will pay for all your Care. So
please don’t blame the educators because we have no power. We don’t even have a voice in our local
district education boards, or our federal education department. Arne Duncan was never an educator, neither
was my state’s secretary of education. Now Trump wants to appoint Ben Carson as Secretary of Education. So you can kiss the next four plus years in education, goodbye. We
are in a climate where a church pastor can pressure a school about what to
teach in the public school.
If you know
history, you know targeting the youth and limiting their education, is one of
the first steps of establishing power and keeping it. It’s also one of the best ways to infiltrate
a society before anyone even knows what happened. So please don’t blame the educators. Blame yourselves.
