Meme - ๐๐ซ๐๐ @HarmfulOpinion: "In 1979, the percentage of people ages 14 and older who were illiterate, was less than one percent. Today, it’s upwards of 16%. And 19% of high school graduates in the US can't read. This is what 45 years of government education has given us."
The Democrats: "45 years ago today the Department of Education was created. Trump and Vance's Project 2025 will eliminate it."
Clearly, the problem is not enough money!
Meme - Mike The Mad Scientist @MadMikeOfficial: "When you’re trying to save the department of education but accidentally make the best case for eliminating it."
mony @moneycaa: "oh btw middle schoolers can't read, high schoolers can't write a proper essay, college students can't differentiate a scholarly based article vs propaganda, and adults cant tell when a picture is AI but sure, get rid the dept. of education LOL"
Rhyen Staley on X - "The Biden Department of Education gave Philly schools roughly $4m for restorative justice programming. One of the “project advisors” was Angela Davis’ sister, who runs a RJ nonprofit. She also helped create Oakland Unified’s RJ program feature RJ circles on “white privilege.”"
Meme - "If talking bout sex at work is harassment but talking to kids at school bout sex is ok that's when u know shit ant ok" *Professor X using telepathy*
Meme - Niels Hoven ๐ฎ @NielsHoven: "This is the former deputy attorney general of California and an influential voice in education, saying that if your child is stuck doing work below their ability, then you must be a Tech Bro and your child’s learning needs don’t matter"
Andrew Bunner @andrewbunner: "Our district is as Niels describes. Our daughter got in trouble for working on her outside-school advanced math during class even though she finished the worksheet they were assigned."
Niels Hoven @NielsHoven: "the audacity of a student! to try to learn something while in school"
Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley: "It's so weird how this keeps happening to the children of the Tech Bro community. Will no one speak for them?"
wanye on X - "I don’t think you have to read statements like this and pretend that you can’t tell that he thinks some constituencies are more important than others. I think you’re allowed to draw the obvious conclusion. This is what progressives would in other contexts describe as a, “dog whistle” and they would encourage you to derive from it a host of things this person likely believes about the group the statement is applied to. I think you’re totally allowed to do that here, too."
Chicago Teachers Union president claims standardized testing 'rooted in White supremacy' - "The president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) earlier this month called standardized testing a “junk science rooted in White supremacy." Stacy Davis Gates said in an Aug. 5 interview with the Chicago-based radio station WVON that the exams originate from the early-20th century eugenics movement, which centered around the belief that segregation and social exclusion would rid society of people thought to be inferior... A 2023 report from the Illinois State Board of Education found that roughly 26% of Chicago Public Schools students met or exceeded their English language arts performance level, while only 17.5% did so for math. In February, though, a study by Harvard and Stanford researchers determined that the city’s students in grades 3-8 ranked third in reading growth among the 100 largest school districts from 2019 to 2023. The CTU has pushed Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez to increase funding for the classrooms, claiming that doing so would protect progress made in the district."
Hide the metrics and always demand more money
Meme - "Figure 1: Time high school students spend on homework by race and parent's income
*most by Asians, then Whites, then Hispanics, then Blacks. More by non-low income than low income*"
Weird. We keep being told that homework is useless
Meme - Frank DeScushin @FrankDeScushin: "A Texas cheating scandal led to 200 unqualified teachers in the classroom, at least two of whom were sexual predators. How the scheme worked: Prospective teachers worried they couldn't pass Texas' certification test paid the pictured man, Vincent Grayson, $2500 to have someone take the test for them. Grayson then gave 20% to certifying official, Tywana Gilford Mason, to allow the racket, and Nicholas Newton, assistant principal at Booker T. Washington High School, took the test for unqualified candidates. Grayson pocketed over a million dollars in the scheme. In New America, noticing a pattern in these scandals where teachers and school administrators collude for fraudulent certification or to change students' grades is often treated as bad as the scandals themselves."
"200 TEACHERS CAUGHT: CHEATING SCANDAL. Who's Been Charged: Vincent Grayson, 57: Head boys basketball coach at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston ISD, Grayson is accused of organizing the scheme. 'Tywana Gilford Mason, 51: Former director and certifying official at the Houston Training and Education Center, Mason allegedly helped conceal the proxy scheme as a test proctor. Nicholas Newton, 35: Assistant principal at Booker T. Washington High School, Newton reportedly acted as a proxy test-taker in the cheating ring. Darian Nikole Wilhite, 22: Proctor at TACTIX, Wilhite is accused of taking bribes to allow proxy testing. LaShonda Roberts, gp: Assistant principal at Yates High School, Roberts is alleged to have recruited nearly 100 teachers to participate in the scheme."
Meme - pagliacci the hated ๐ @Slatzism: "hey guys guess what ? Mr. “more kids need to have their lives ruined” works for the Department of Child Services in Florida and is a former substitute teacher for Miami-Dade County Public Schools. ๐"
joeycon @seasalt_bae: "Actually more kids need to have their lives ruined for not taking bigotry and discrimination seriously and genuinely believing that they're untouchable or the world will never hold them accountable for their actions"
ryan @scubaryan_: "this little girl was being racist and instantly regretted it when she found out he was livesteaming"
Meme - Wesley Yang @wesyang: "The sex education NGO the Future of Sex Education Initiative explains: “not only are younger children able to discuss sexuality-related issues but that the early grades may, in fact, be the best time to introduce topics related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, gender equality, and social justice related to the LGBTQ community before hetero- and cisnormative values and assumptions become more deeply ingrained and less mutable.”"
Nicki Neily @nickineily: "Why are kindergarteners — who are 6 years old — being forced to learn about “gender identity” and why can’t their parents opt them out?"
"Parents in Massachusetts School District Can't Opt Out of 'Sexuality,' 'Gender Identity' Lessons"
Oregon school principal charged with felonies amid allegations she covered up child sex abuse scandal - "The principal St. Helens school in Oregon has surrendered to the Columbia County Sheriff's Office on felony criminal charges amid a damning child sex abuse scandal. Dr. Kathryn "Katy" Wagner, 45, was booked into Columbia County Jail... Wagner, the principal of St. Helens High School, was indicted Tuesday by a Columbia County grand jury on two counts of felony first-degree criminal mistreatment, two counts of first-degree official misconduct, and two counts of second-degree official misconduct, court documents show. She has been accused of failing to disclose child sex abuse allegations and intentionally withholding essential and adequate physical care from the minor student victims, detectives with the St. Helens Police Department said following a lengthy investigation. The school district placed Wagner on administrative leave on Nov. 15, along with district superintendent Scott Stickwell. The principal's arrest follows a two-month probe into a history of minor sex abuse complaints at St. Helens High School. Under Oregon's mandatory reporter law, public officials and civil servants are required to report minor sex abuse allegations to law enforcement, which Wagner reportedly refused to do."
Time to bash the Catholic Church for covering up child sexual abuse again!
Libs of TikTok on X - "Meet Andrew Stewart, a teacher at @WestBroadwayMS in Rhode Island. After threatening to attack a store owner with a wooden board, Andrew destroyed a Trump sign while wearing a "Proud Trans Teacher" shirt. Parents, these are the kinds of teachers "educating" your kids."
Crรฉmieux on X - "I just learned the OECD had a conference around the release of the latest round of PISA scores. Everyone was giving presentations, talking about reforms and whatnot, and then someone showed my graphs showing America performs well when split by race. They paused the conference.
They came back and banned the topic. But then, it was all anyone talked about."
Scarlett Johnson on X - "A white child with dyslexia is denied essential reading intervention due to the Wisconsin State Superintendent and Green Bay Area Public School Administration prioritizing identity politics over the needs of children. CRT hurts our kids."
Frank DeScushin on X - "If a school states they prioritize resources to non-white students and then denies resources to a white student, the legal burden shouldn’t be on the student to prove discrimination. It should be on the school to prove they didn’t act in accord with their discriminatory policy."
Mother claims Wisconsin school discriminated against her white dyslexic son - "A Wisconsin school board has launched an internal investigation after a mother claimed her son was denied access to additional reading resources because he is white. Colbey Decker has accused Green Bay Area School District of discriminating against her dyslexic, elementary school-aged son by prioritising racial minority pupils for access to specialist educational services. In a letter threatening legal action against the school board, Ms Decker said last week that her son was denied entry to the school district’s literacy programme for almost a full year because he was not a racial minority. “The school implied to me that my child would already be receiving one-on-one reading support if he were black, Hispanic, or First Nation,” she said. “I was speechless. I think we need to help every student in need, and using the guise of ‘diversity’ simply creates more division and hurts all students.”... According to an excerpt from what appears to be a school success plan for Green Bay’s King Elementary School, seen by The Telegraph, one of the “high priority strategies” for literacy is “prioritising additional resources to First Nations, Black, and Hispanic students”."
Daniel Buck, “Youngest Old Man in Ed Reform” on X - "The largest SEL conference in the country. A few sessions:
- "Exemplary white teachers"
- "Gender inclusive schools"
- "Climate change and SEL"
- Using SEL to advance social justice
SEL has just become a trojan horse for boilerplate progressivism in the classroom"
Thread by @Erin4Parents on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "As Colorado legislators continue to pass laws to be LESS transparent (and even “republicans” like @SoperMatthew and Janice Rich sign onto them) — It’s time to talk about WHY government transparency is necessary. I’ll start…
In 2021, my little girl was sexualized, groomed and transitioned to a boy in her 6th grade classroom. Then the district ignored me, tried to justify it, LIED to me, and had unthinkable conversations about my family & child & how I must be abusive and deserve a CPS visit because I disagreed with what they did. It was only because of exercising my right to public records that I was able to see their true intentions, actions, and agenda. Here are some examples of the things I discovered through public record that no one EVER would have known that my lying, scheming school district was doing:
The school board president colluded with my child’s abuser (an outside party who runs “Skittles” and splashnoco.org ) to keep me *quiet* … referring to parents who find out as “barriers” that the school board has removed at other middle schools and claiming we have no rights. *Here’s a visual of the 2 people scheming against my family behind closed doors in this email — 3 days after they hurt my child. Here they are discussing sending a mandated reporter to my home for a “well-child check” because I removed my girl from their abusive environment. (And yes, they did send someone to my home.) They high 5 each other for being “allies” — for their brave, admirable, hard (but rewarding) work undermining parents & sexualizing little kids. Here I discovered that someone else was invited in to groom and sexualize my daughter …. A self-proclaimed “genderqueer shapeshifting blood witch” who plays in her own blood, mutilates her own body, and publicly writes about her experiences in Aleister Crowley sex dungeons. Her names Charlie, but she now goes by “Silen Wellington” ((Read full story on her here: theepochtimes.com/us/after-scand… )) Oh! And here is the invite for my child (and other 11 & 12-year-olds) to secretly connect with her skittles/splash groomer and the shapeshifting witch PRIVATELY on Discord (after “friending” them and agreeing to the confidentiality “rules” of course.) When I went public — Here is the district’s lgbtqia+ coordinator checking in on the teacher: saying it must be so hard to face backlash for supporting her students! And the teacher saying she “feels awful” for my daughter having to experience this (THIS meaning her mother publicly standing up against the harm they caused her.) Public records show that the teachers were *celebrated* and *supported* for harming my child and others. Meanwhile, the district had waged a public campaign to discredit and smear me: the mom whose child they hurt and then refused to take accountability for it when I tried for nearly a year to handle it privately.
Here are my child’s abuser Art teacher & school counselor many months AFTER WE RAISED CONCERN still bragging about their GSA “art club” and inviting collaboration from the genderqueer shapeshifting blood witch in their secret gender & sexuality meetings in the classroom. Here is the witch being invited to privately meet off site with a student to help “decrease their barriers”. Here is a middle school counselor scheming with district LGBTQ lady about keeping SECRET lists of kids’ names & pronouns at school (with a column for how to lie to their parents when communicating home.) They make sure to vilify parents & double-down on the secrecy policy.
Just for fun, here’s another crazy story about my school distirct’s deceit and lies by the Fox News— Again, I found these emails of them transitioning an ELEMENTARY student even after parents found out and said STOP IT. The principal learned from the *shapeshifting witch* in district staff training that rights lie with children, not parents. And then the district’s legal department even confirmed this policy & practice of lying to parents. foxnews.com/media/elementa…
Again, this was ALL intentionally done in secret: the club, the communications, the attack on my family and others. Without CORA law, I would not have known about any of this. No one would. And now former PSD school board member Cathy Kipp is trying to run this anti-transparency law again. Why? Because they don’t like it when parents like me expose their own behavior in their own words. They want to keep us in the dark and silence us while they trample our rights and violate our children. Don’t let them. #Fight4CORA"
Meme - i/o @eyeslasho: "43 percent of all students in DC public schools were chronically absent during the 2022-2023 school year."
Damn racism keeping minority students behind!
Libs of TikTok on X - "Teacher shows off a “social justice” day in her school. Students spend an entire day learning about "banned books", climate change, LGBTQ rights, resistance, and protesting. This school would be stripped of their funding under Trump's new Executive Order."
Buck Sexton on X - "Had a teacher friend years ago who was assigned to a special program public school in a rough nyc area. Straightforward idea- flood this one school with top teachers and ample resources-then the low-income kids in it will excel. Replicate it elsewhere. She said the classrooms had brand new Mac computers, iPads, All the bells and whistles. Plus low student-teacher ratio. But nothing changed for the kids, scores or behavior issues, over years and years while she was there. Why? Well, she said out of 30 kids, maybe 3 would have parents show up for parent teacher conference day- often a grandparent. Without parental support, fostering a culture of learning, it won’t get better. You’ll never hear the truth from Randi W. and the rest of the Ed cartel though. They don’t care about the kids, only “more resources” (taxpayer dollars) for adults."
Clearly, they didn't spend enough money and schools are underfunded
Meme - "Americans: why do police unions protect bad cops and keep them employed?
Teachers unions:"
Connecticut high school graduate alleges she can’t read or write in lawsuit - "Aleysha Ortiz is 19 years old and dreams of one day writing stories and maybe even a book. That may sound like a reasonable aspiration for a teenager recently out of high school, but for Aleysha it will be much harder. Despite graduating last June from Hartford Public High School in Hartford, Connecticut, and earning a scholarship to college, Aleysha is illiterate. She says she cannot read or write... She graduated with honors, which usually means a student has demonstrated academic excellence. But after 12 years of attending public schools in Hartford, Aleysha testified at a May 2024 city council meeting that she could not read or write. Suddenly, she says, school officials seemed concerned about awarding her a diploma. Two days before graduation, she says, school district officials told her she could defer accepting the diploma in exchange for intensive services. Aleysha didn’t listen. “I decided, they (the school) had 12 years,” she says. “Now it’s my time.” Aleysha is now suing the Hartford Board of Education and the City of Hartford for negligence, as well as her special education case manager, Tilda Santiago, for negligent infliction of emotional distress."
If they hadn't let her graduate, she'd have sued for discrimination
Arjun Panickssery on X - "Mississippi has the best demographic-adjusted NAEP (4th & 8th grade) scores now The "Mississippi Miracle" started in 2012 when the Republican governor/legislature introduced phonics-based instruction and began to hold back ~10% of 3rd graders per year who fail a reading test"
Arpit Gupta on X - "Phonics — teaching kids to sound words out — is a better method for earning to read, but offers less autonomy to teachers who often don't like it MS first passed a law mandating phonics, and saw reading scores go up a lot. Many, but not all states, followed"
๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ on X - "I like how there’s no way to defend teachers’ irrational dislike for phonics. It’s just entirely baseless and evil. It reflects so poorly on them both as a profession and individually. It’d be like if firefighters refused to use water, and literally couldn’t explain why."
Trust the Experts!
Thread by @panickssery on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "Mississippi has the best demographic-adjusted NAEP (4th & 8th grade) scores now. The "Mississippi Miracle" started in 2012 when the Republican governor/legislature introduced phonics-based instruction and began to hold back ~10% of 3rd graders per year who fail a reading test. In contrast, Oregon, with the lowest demographic-adjusted scores, has a Board of Education that has indefinitely "paused" since 2020 the use of any standardized test as a graduation requirement. Most of this stuff isn't rocket science"
I saw a left winger claim that Mississippi improved because of throwing more money at the problem. Time to mock red states and praise blue ones
Nicholas Kristof on X - "It's astonishing to witness the improvement in public education--reading, math, attendance, grad rates--in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. But we're busy fighting culture wars rather than scaling up what these three states have done. Please do read:"
Daniel Friedman on X - "The reason this is happening is that conservative states use academic tracking and remove behavior problems from the classroom. Having a few chronically absent behavior problems who are years behind grade level in a classroom slows everyone’s progress. Schools eliminated disciplinary punishment, academic failure and tracked classes because the students removed from the classroom by these policies were disproportionately black. But the students whose education is derailed when you keep all these problems in the classroom are also black."
The Push for Phonics-Based Reading Instruction in Schools | TIME - "As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked for the students, but not so much for the teachers. “For seven years in a row, Oakland was the fastest-gaining urban district in California for reading,” recalls Weaver. “And we hated it.” The teachers felt like curriculum robots—and pushed back. “This seems dehumanizing, this is colonizing, this is the man telling us what to do,” says Weaver, describing their response to the approach. “So we fought tooth and nail as a teacher group to throw that out.” It was replaced in 2015 by a curriculum that emphasized rich literary experiences. “Those who wanted to fight for social justice, they figured that this new progressive way of teaching reading was the way,” he says."
Madame Fragonard on X - "k-12 education now attracts narcissistic wannabe creative types who think they’re too good for normal jobs the end result is that they’ve bullied their way into constructing a curriculum solely concerned with providing an aesthetically gratifying experience for the teachers"
This explains why US teachers keep complaining. School is not primarily about educating students
Progressive teaching is about sabotaging your students' skills. Maybe so when they fail in life, they will be radicalised into being left wingers
Niels Hoven ๐ฎ on X - "Why would educators be opposed to teaching kids to sound out words? Well, the faculty at Minnesota State's college of education object to the "promotion of teaching methods developed [...] during the Jim Crow era""
Seasonal Clickfarm Worker on X - "There are so many domains in which a racial justice framing has been used as a shortcut to getting whatever unrelated thing progressives want, because arguing against racial justice was impossible. This problem continues unabated."
Niels Hoven ๐ฎ on X - "We have illiterate teenagers because schools tell kids to guess at words instead of sounding them out"
James Lindsay, anti-Communist on X - "Sooner or later, we need to reckon with the fact that once the Critical Pedagogues took over education schools (arguably by the 90s, certainly by the early 2000s), they started breaking education completely. The failures they generate are then fed back into the system to provide further justifications for their broken and traumatizing methods, like "Social-Emotional Learning" to help kids deal with the frustrations of failing to learn. Because government (the Department of Education under Bush 43, in this case) decided that what education needed more than anything were measuring sticks placed everywhere, their accountability approaches became tools by which the Critical Pedagogues could tie money to their broken and damaging methods. What we see here is teaching normal children to read using a technique designed to help dyslexic kids bridge the gap because phonics often doesn't work well with dyslexia. Now every kid has to learn this way, which will get them recognized as struggling, which will justify more money and special budgets for the learning challenges under this whole broken grift. Worst of all, the teachers themselves are put into a position where they think they're genuinely expressing care and concern for kids who they think need special attention when in fact what they need are the old reliable methods that work with most kids without frustrating them. I hear from teachers all the time who try to explain to me why Social-Emotional Learning is so important with all these kids who are struggling, and they ask rhetorical questions like, "what are we supposed to do, just not care about these kids?" The answer is that they need to get off the treadmill of broken methods, but they can't. They don't know other methods, the funding and administration demand these methods, and the crisis of broken kids is right in front of them."
