What Happened to the Teaching of History in American Schools?
In 2014, a female college student majoring in journalism at Texas Tech University was hired to walk around her college campus and ask her fellow students some basic questions about American history and government. Really basic. One was, “Who won the Civil War?” Most of the students seen on the video could not answer this question.…
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Thank you for last week’s article, “Homeschooliers Save Taxpayers $22 Billion Per Year.” That’s not all homeschoolers do. They raise capable students: Students who learn by acting rather than being acted upon. Students who can individualize their curriculum, read uplifting literature and true history, and include religion in any subject. Students who can carry on conversations with people of all ages. Students who colleges love. Students who will be talented, capable adults and great parents.
Now we are reminded that the government has taken our children into the horrific land of data collecting and “Student Psychological Profiling in Public Schools.” This should be the last straw for parents. (Actually there have been are several last straws that should have already moved us all to action.)
Parents, please link to the rest of this article and the video with Duke Pesta, and educator who has been warning us since the beginning of this Common Core nightmare. The choices for parents now are to find a better way to educate their children or to risk the strong probability of losing them to a fallen culture. – Homeschool Grandma
Thanks for your comment Joyce. We do what we can.
Thank you! I don’t know who “we” are but if you are a legislator I feel great concern for your situation. There is no way to win here. Teachers are discouraged. Teacher retention is a major problem. More money is needed. Legislators have two bad choices: One is to raise taxes on everyone, including those who have no children in school, which is very unfair and is sometimes known as “legalized plunder.”
The other choice is to redistribute some of the high pay of teachers in Park City to the teachers in the poorest rural district, a move that would surely shame a legislator’s conscience. Both choices are socialist behaviors.
When families educate their children at home or in private schools no tax money is actually refunded — the schools keep it; therefore, the more families leave the system the more the government can pay their teachers.
There seems to be a new school trend this year: no homework. That may be wonderful for most students in traditional schools; but if students are on data-collecting computers to which parents and teachers have no access parents should be very concerned.
– Homeschool Grandma