Thank you Jennifer. I have seen the results of horrible education first-hand. I tutored several kids in Hawaii in math; spending time one-on-one makes a huge difference in their life. There are great resources out there for people who want to home-school. The result of the horrible schools will be that the divide between the have's and the have-nots will increase. May God bless the children and open their eyes to the atrocities committed by ignorant and truly stupid "adults". May there be peace on earth,
If the massive effort and funds for Special Ed. cannot teach such very basic math to 3rd graders, I doubt that the "science" of the education industry will supply an answer. Very discouraging. Friends who have children with this problem have had far more success with home schooling.
A while back at our local Publix, paying with cash per usual, I gave the young cashier an amount that would give me back a $10 bill, I think it was. I forget what the exact total was -- something like $11.41. So....I gave her a $20 bill, a single, and 41 cents.
She saw all that "money" and hesitated. She then plugged the numbers in. (She could add--and I'm not trying to be a smart a$$ here.) and voilá! An even $10 in change. She turned to young trainee doing the bagging and said, "See...this lady did this in her head. We were never taught this." Those were her exact words; that I remember.
How could we let this happen. Failing a grade has always had a stigma but the purpose was because you had not absorbed enough at that grade to progress to the next.
Rather than just move them up to avoid "embarrassment" how about working on taking the stigma away?
This is straight out of the Communist Manifesto. It is part of a multi-pronged approach to creating a controlled demolition of our society, and to turn out a new generation of weaker and less intelligent individuals, who will be much easier to control. It is one of the many pervading evils of our lifetime.
This is a subject that enrages me. I have a hard time keeping my cool when discussing it. When my three kids were school age back around 2007 I started getting some whiffs of how bad things were. Despite paying a hefty private school tuition my youngest was not being taught to read phonetically. We heard all manner of song and dance about how she would pick it up eventually.
We hired a private tutor to do what her teachers would not. Meanwhile our older daughter at the same time was a bit of a mathematical whiz and she completed her entire 7th grade curriculum work book on her own by Thanksgiving . She was bored. We asked of this private school “ educating the whole child” if she could be given advanced work or go up a level. We were told no. She was made to sit in the back of the classroom and provide help to her peers who didn’t understand the problems. I kid you not.
I became a serious ed researcher from that point on and wrote some blog posts for Charlotte Education blog trying to reach people about the state of things. To no avail. Once the bipartisan ESSA bill passed in 2015 the game was over. There is a great book worth reading on how we got to this state of marxist educational decay . Its called Credentialed To Destroy by Robin Eubanks. She had an amazing blog ( Invisible Serfs Collar. Com ) going since 2012 that she recently shut down over legitimate fears of personal safety. Robin, an attorney, read all the white papers that none of us were ever supposed to know about. I could go on. Obviously. LOL. I will stop for now.
The dumbing down campaign has been going on for well over 50 years. Gradually but steadily.
Phonics was eliminated in most schools, an enormous mistake. Teachers didn't force students to learn the definitions of words. The "New Math" was a disaster. Achievement was vilified in favor of "equality" and "not hurting the feelings of students."
Academics started to be replaced by behavior modification. Here's one example of a major "milestone" in the decline of US education:
Psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce, Address to the Childhood International Education Seminar, 1973: "Every child in America entering school at the age of 5 is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by creating the international child of the future."
Teacher's unions, the NEA and DoEd adopted this and other similar "philosophies," and education has declined steadily as a result.
While China teaches its kids advanced science and math, US schools focus on behavior, political correctness, gender ID, trans and other nonsense.
The US government aids and abets this corruption and perversion of education.
I have a DIL in education who says that the damage to children from the COVID lockdowns also includes impaired socialization and conflict resolution skills.
It's all part of the plan. You can't have the planned global "One World Order" government when there is still a dominant super power. If anyone is actually interested in the truth, click on the following links:
Hard for teachers to teach when many of the students don't speak English. Remember, we are ruining the country so that we all go running to the WEF for answers ... or so the globalists are hoping.
What "we" need forgiven for isn't just the covid antics, with regards to school, it's the entire indoctrination and dumbing down of ALL the children for decades. Teaching to the lowest common denominator, because of the idiotic national testing schedule. We can't have little Timmy not score well, because of an infinite number of reasons, our school/city/state will look bad! We won't get our funding! Meanwhile, little Freddie, who is smart, works hard in school, and is attentive, is TOTALLY ignored, because the teachers have to hold Timmy's hand to make sure he can spell "Cat" in the 6th grade. AND the teachers are at fault, because Mommy and Daddy have their own lives and can't be bothered to work with Timmy at home, or make sure he does his homework, because, "The teachers are so damn lazy." BUT, Mommy and Daddy have the time to come to school and yell at and shame/blame the teacher, because their kid isn't too right bright.
And all of this is allowed in the once United States.
That story of Donna and Natasha and their paper cranes is disquieting - and there is no excuse for it.
30+ years ago, I taught 2nd grade at a school which had no less than 52 languages spoken school-wide. My students knew more about life than I ever did at that age - and I grew up on a farm.
My classes ran from "normal" kids to those who knew ZERO English, much less the ability to read.
I taught them Arithmetic via key words: more, less, equals, etc. Skip the verbiage and circle the key words. Every problem then boils down to numbers being added or subtracted. Simple. It was only 2nd grade. Still learning the basics. Comprehension would have to wait.
By the end of 2nd grade almost all my students could have passed that subtraction question. How do I know this? Because I would give them college-level or even nonsense words in a question and insisted they boil it down by circling the key words and solve the problem. Names don't matter. What the fictional people are doing doesn't matter. That's all smoke. Only the numbers matter. Even a child who couldn't read could go off the key words and come up with the correct answer.
The sad thing is, is MANY teachers in primary do not know how to teach basic arithmetic and despise it and instill that hatred in their students and then some of their students go on to become teachers who hate arithmetic and avoid teaching it because they don't understand how. And the cycle perpetuates. Just look at primary teachers' test scores. What part of the teaching credential test to most fear? QED
So, what do they do instead to compensate for their incompetence?
They attempt to teach basic arithmetic through reading comprehension (sometimes called "whole language") - which sounds laudable, but leads to the abysmal results in your referenced study.
Reading comprehension has it's place, but not at the expense of basic arithmetic skills.
Thank you Jennifer. I have seen the results of horrible education first-hand. I tutored several kids in Hawaii in math; spending time one-on-one makes a huge difference in their life. There are great resources out there for people who want to home-school. The result of the horrible schools will be that the divide between the have's and the have-nots will increase. May God bless the children and open their eyes to the atrocities committed by ignorant and truly stupid "adults". May there be peace on earth,
Thanks Jennifer.
This horrifying post highlights the evil entities success at dumbing down the future generations.
Infant & childhood injections. Fluoride & Aluminium Sulfate in the water used for drinking, cooking, bathing. All scientifically proven to reduce IQ.
Don't even try to blame it all on that. It's been around for YEARS and there wasn't this kind of problem in the past.
Yes, and more has been added.
If the massive effort and funds for Special Ed. cannot teach such very basic math to 3rd graders, I doubt that the "science" of the education industry will supply an answer. Very discouraging. Friends who have children with this problem have had far more success with home schooling.
This isn't even really "math." It's arithmetic.
A while back at our local Publix, paying with cash per usual, I gave the young cashier an amount that would give me back a $10 bill, I think it was. I forget what the exact total was -- something like $11.41. So....I gave her a $20 bill, a single, and 41 cents.
She saw all that "money" and hesitated. She then plugged the numbers in. (She could add--and I'm not trying to be a smart a$$ here.) and voilá! An even $10 in change. She turned to young trainee doing the bagging and said, "See...this lady did this in her head. We were never taught this." Those were her exact words; that I remember.
You think arithmetic and math skills have taken a beating. Read this -- and it has not gotten better -- and see that half of the American population is unable to read a book at the 8th grade level. Half. https://www.wyliecomm.com/2021/08/whats-the-latest-u-s-literacy-rate/
That is hard to comprehend (pun intended).
How could we let this happen. Failing a grade has always had a stigma but the purpose was because you had not absorbed enough at that grade to progress to the next.
Rather than just move them up to avoid "embarrassment" how about working on taking the stigma away?
This is straight out of the Communist Manifesto. It is part of a multi-pronged approach to creating a controlled demolition of our society, and to turn out a new generation of weaker and less intelligent individuals, who will be much easier to control. It is one of the many pervading evils of our lifetime.
This is a subject that enrages me. I have a hard time keeping my cool when discussing it. When my three kids were school age back around 2007 I started getting some whiffs of how bad things were. Despite paying a hefty private school tuition my youngest was not being taught to read phonetically. We heard all manner of song and dance about how she would pick it up eventually.
We hired a private tutor to do what her teachers would not. Meanwhile our older daughter at the same time was a bit of a mathematical whiz and she completed her entire 7th grade curriculum work book on her own by Thanksgiving . She was bored. We asked of this private school “ educating the whole child” if she could be given advanced work or go up a level. We were told no. She was made to sit in the back of the classroom and provide help to her peers who didn’t understand the problems. I kid you not.
I became a serious ed researcher from that point on and wrote some blog posts for Charlotte Education blog trying to reach people about the state of things. To no avail. Once the bipartisan ESSA bill passed in 2015 the game was over. There is a great book worth reading on how we got to this state of marxist educational decay . Its called Credentialed To Destroy by Robin Eubanks. She had an amazing blog ( Invisible Serfs Collar. Com ) going since 2012 that she recently shut down over legitimate fears of personal safety. Robin, an attorney, read all the white papers that none of us were ever supposed to know about. I could go on. Obviously. LOL. I will stop for now.
Charlotte Isyerbyte*
The dumbing down campaign has been going on for well over 50 years. Gradually but steadily.
Phonics was eliminated in most schools, an enormous mistake. Teachers didn't force students to learn the definitions of words. The "New Math" was a disaster. Achievement was vilified in favor of "equality" and "not hurting the feelings of students."
Academics started to be replaced by behavior modification. Here's one example of a major "milestone" in the decline of US education:
Psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce, Address to the Childhood International Education Seminar, 1973: "Every child in America entering school at the age of 5 is insane because he comes to school with certain allegiances to our founding fathers, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, and toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity. It's up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well - by creating the international child of the future."
Teacher's unions, the NEA and DoEd adopted this and other similar "philosophies," and education has declined steadily as a result.
While China teaches its kids advanced science and math, US schools focus on behavior, political correctness, gender ID, trans and other nonsense.
The US government aids and abets this corruption and perversion of education.
I have a DIL in education who says that the damage to children from the COVID lockdowns also includes impaired socialization and conflict resolution skills.
It's all part of the plan. You can't have the planned global "One World Order" government when there is still a dominant super power. If anyone is actually interested in the truth, click on the following links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66JknXTwWHc&list=PL7kQq2LljLCU53n_iPecuE2wGcg8nG-PC
https://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/
Hard for teachers to teach when many of the students don't speak English. Remember, we are ruining the country so that we all go running to the WEF for answers ... or so the globalists are hoping.
What "we" need forgiven for isn't just the covid antics, with regards to school, it's the entire indoctrination and dumbing down of ALL the children for decades. Teaching to the lowest common denominator, because of the idiotic national testing schedule. We can't have little Timmy not score well, because of an infinite number of reasons, our school/city/state will look bad! We won't get our funding! Meanwhile, little Freddie, who is smart, works hard in school, and is attentive, is TOTALLY ignored, because the teachers have to hold Timmy's hand to make sure he can spell "Cat" in the 6th grade. AND the teachers are at fault, because Mommy and Daddy have their own lives and can't be bothered to work with Timmy at home, or make sure he does his homework, because, "The teachers are so damn lazy." BUT, Mommy and Daddy have the time to come to school and yell at and shame/blame the teacher, because their kid isn't too right bright.
And all of this is allowed in the once United States.
If you do not already read Undercover Mothers I highly recommend it. https://substack.com/profile/44208834-undercover-mothers
That story of Donna and Natasha and their paper cranes is disquieting - and there is no excuse for it.
30+ years ago, I taught 2nd grade at a school which had no less than 52 languages spoken school-wide. My students knew more about life than I ever did at that age - and I grew up on a farm.
My classes ran from "normal" kids to those who knew ZERO English, much less the ability to read.
I taught them Arithmetic via key words: more, less, equals, etc. Skip the verbiage and circle the key words. Every problem then boils down to numbers being added or subtracted. Simple. It was only 2nd grade. Still learning the basics. Comprehension would have to wait.
By the end of 2nd grade almost all my students could have passed that subtraction question. How do I know this? Because I would give them college-level or even nonsense words in a question and insisted they boil it down by circling the key words and solve the problem. Names don't matter. What the fictional people are doing doesn't matter. That's all smoke. Only the numbers matter. Even a child who couldn't read could go off the key words and come up with the correct answer.
The sad thing is, is MANY teachers in primary do not know how to teach basic arithmetic and despise it and instill that hatred in their students and then some of their students go on to become teachers who hate arithmetic and avoid teaching it because they don't understand how. And the cycle perpetuates. Just look at primary teachers' test scores. What part of the teaching credential test to most fear? QED
So, what do they do instead to compensate for their incompetence?
They attempt to teach basic arithmetic through reading comprehension (sometimes called "whole language") - which sounds laudable, but leads to the abysmal results in your referenced study.
Reading comprehension has it's place, but not at the expense of basic arithmetic skills.