Christina Villegas has written an excellent and very important article but the problems she cites go way deeper into the present and more importantly the future of America and the world.
The dumbing down of America's schools and our students has created several generations of progressively less well educated Americans.
Once America recovers the political will to reverse this horrible trend where will the necessary well-educated people come from to initiate and carry out the reversal? We will need many thousands of great teachers. Where will we find them?
America has been the gravitational center of world freedom for a couple of hundred years. That center has now lost a large portion of its mass. What is going to replace this crucial centering mass? China and Russia? Their core education is way ahead of ours.
So while "the plan" has dawdled along waiting for the normies to realize what's going on, a generation of American children has been sacrificed to leftist, radical progressive ideology. That generation will be seen to be very important to the preservation of America's role at the center of world freedom. And it is gone.
The learning years are a physiological reality. You can't get them back once they've been squandered. Mathematics is taught to young eager minds for the reason that those minds are able to absorb mathematics. We don't teach maths to middle aged folks, do we?
So we need to get the damn plan moving. Even a crash program with a complete reversal of teaching priorities will not suffice to replace what we've allowed to slip away. Time does not come back. Youth does not return.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-purposeful-degradation-of-americas-schools/
We don’t need more great teachers. We need more great mothers home schooling their children. That’s the best way to ensure a balanced, Christ-centered upbringing.
BS. Will it be easy? No. Can America do hard things? YES!! We will step up and get it done. Think of my generation that had no computers in our youth but suddenly had them in the workplace. Those of us with brights figured out what we needed to learn and then we taught others.
I'm not just talking about learning to use computers.......... we learned how they worked, we figured out software and wrote code.
It's very well known. You could look it up. This is just from google:
At what age does learning become more difficult? At what age is it harder to learn? It initially becomes harder to learn around the age of 12 because the chemicals in your brain change during puberty. Around the age of 25, your brain patterns solidify, and they will become harder to change.
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This.
I began a serious study of advanced mathematics 20 years ago at 60.
Nine years later I gave a paper at a major physics conference in Prague.
Five years after that I published a peer reviewed article on the foundations of mathematics.
Now finishing another major paper.
So not too ossified, I guess.
And, no, these events of my life do not contradict the age/learning argument of my post. The optimum learning years are simply matters of physiology - of brain function. What i have done on my own has been done out of intense love for what I am doing.
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With today's technology and available information,teachers are irrelevant.Teach at home,mostly with computers.The primary reason for teachers was because the parents were uneducated.Not so today. Schools are giant daycare centers.If teachers have time to teach sexuality,they obviously are not busy.
These huge schools are the problem. We have a junior high with 900 kids. When they should have been breaking them up and making them smaller, instead they were consolidating them making them bigger, knowing how out of control they would become. Talk about mass psychosis!
Kids today have zero responsibilities to younger kids and keeping kids around all kids the same age only defers maturity. You begin to understand why college kids are as immature as high school students 40 years ago.
Mothers are the answer! Teaching kids in home settings with 5-8 students is the answer. Younger kids learn from older kids. It’s the best form of learning.
.....it is amazing how much and how fast someone can learn something when their head isn't being filled with a bunch of shit all the time.....
I only got to the first couple of sentences. She doesn't know about YANKEE INGENUITY. What a piece of crap.
Is this a program or are your just referring to how resilient we are?
Yankee Ingenuity means Improvisational design or problem-solving, dealing with low availability of replacement parts and materials. (from a google search)
This is where we are now, so we will see who can be improvisational! It’s like those critical thinking skills that half of our society didn’t get.
When the trucks stop running because of pig pee, yankee ingenuity will figure it out and make things work. We always do.
You ain't seen Hispanic ingenuity- where some guys in Cuba took an ancient pickup truck and discarded parts to make a raft that got them to Florida, or where central Americans cobble together working vehicles from parts left after cartel battles, or rural guys in South America that had never seen certain appliances but seriously fix them anyway... There are simply some people that can literally figure out anything. Which is why the elites keep wanting to poison all youth but theirs with toxins to dumb then down. Brave New World.
Hunger is a great motivator, these snow flakes will adapt because they must or die. I know people all over the world are resourceful, funny your back handed handed slur of me.
But what shapes a child is not just what’s learned in school. Maybe there’s some rhyme and reason to how many grandparents are actually parenting their grandchildren because Mom and Dad are either divorced or working two jobs/careers trying to get by. In the old days, families stayed together. When I lived in Ontario, Canada I learned about all the generational farmhouses - families stayed together and when a couple married, the family build them an addition on the main farmhouse. I think the most detrimental thing affecting my kids’ generation (80s/90s kids) was too much time without parental supervision. And now they raise their own kids that way, unless they have parents like me who not only sacrificed a career to be home with my kids, but have committed (sometimes I’m think I’m crazy) to do the same for my grands. I think there a lot more people like me out there than most of us realize. Yes, some places are a mess, but I want to believe that middle America is alive and well (even in Canada) and enough of us are still around who understand the value of freedom and who are willing to stand for it, and teach our loved ones to revere it.
Doubt the WH’s failed to have a plan for this.
Besides…those free love hippies/sex, drugs and rock-n-roll, burn your bra generations grew up, became responsible, got jobs, mortgages and had families.
Life has a way of growing you up and straightening out your priorities.
What about rethinking education? Do kids really need school for learning or is it for socializing? I'm far from a genius yet i work in a technical field and i developed all these skills on my own, outside of school, using online resources and then i have continued to improve my skills by working with and learning from other professionals. Yes young kids need supervision but once they're a bit older i think smart kids can do self study. There's also a lot of people in school who really shouldn't be, they simply don't have the aptitude for that type of learning, as these kids get older they should probably go into vocational training.
THIS- the public government institutions weren't designed to educate, they were purposely designed to create compliant factory workers, ready for the "inevitable" consolidation with communism. To replace family and church with state and government. Those are direct words from the designers of the US school system, fervent Humanists who wrote quite a bit and even testified to such in front of Congress at the time, just to show how long things have been compromised.
These kinds of scores aren't going to lead the free world.
The most recent PISA results, from 2015, placed the U.S. an unimpressive 38th out of 71 countries in math and 24th in science. Among the 35 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which sponsors the PISA initiative, the U.S. ranked 30th in math and 19th in science.
You have to start with the next generation. This entire change up is about a 30 year process once started.
Because it's s life change, not just a school switch.
Learning does become more difficult than the sponge-like capacity of a pre-adolescent, however it is not impossible. The learning will be slowed somewhat, but the reformation of schools and the teaching system will be pivotal in catching some of the new generation up. Homeschooling, private schools, Christian theological based schools will play a major part in this reformation. The larger concern is the last two to three generations that have been heavily indoctrinated to a warped view on reality. The most recent generation has been terribly warped and will have a very difficult time overcoming CRT and Common Core programming. These are the ones that will require the most attention. Some will be lost, but I hope that the rest can be salvaged. The elementary students will adapt more easily than the older, more thoroughly indoctrinated middle and high schoolers, but the college level brainwashed are going to be the greatest challenge. All of us are going to play a big role in the post-globalist reformation. We are going to have to pitch in and do a lot of the heavy lifting to help these people understand what is truly happening and to help them grasp what was done to them. We will need to be there to provide them with support and simply provide them with the truth about the world and humanity. I pray that 4-6% that are lost is at the upper limit of what we cannot salvage.
It took years to get here.
Yes, it did.
Will it be possible to recover our position of world leadership?
It's already an uphill fight against many nations that are well ahead of us in core-subjects education.
The learning of core subjects is also the process of learning how to think accurately and deeply about any subject.
That's why the WEF/NWO people have been dumbing down the core of education for decades. They want us unable to think with clarity about anything.
Of course it will. But it's not a question of isolating education as one issue, this requires our own reset and taking back our American culture.
Stop poisoning our babies with toxic injections.
Stop poisoning our families with toxic foods and water, replace with clean foods.
1776 curriculum and clean education- at home, at pods, co-ops, anywhere except government indoctrination centers. Return home economics and workshops to the curriculum. Remedial classes available for the 'lost' generation! We don't need video games, we need good books! Youth don't need mobile devices, they need tools from pencils to knitting needles to pliers.
One parent stays home- to save the kids' souls first. Also stop paying daycare, stupid phone/data/cable/coffee prices, remake all the priorities. When one parent is missing, families must band together- if yours won't then group with other families and make a new one.
Rebuild everything- grow/raise food, be ingenious, get together with neighbors and remake the definitions of life. Get local, but not isolated.
Everyone must be expected to assume their civic duties and participate in self-governance, because lazy complacency got us here and can no longer be allowed. Full privileges only to those who participate.
You are absolutely right! This has been bothering me for a long time. These kids will not recover from the isolation and losses of learning they have sustained.
Just saying we should all home school is baloney. The parents of children who take them to drag events are not capable of home schooling. The system is totally broken and will not be easy to recover.
This generation has been sacrificed.
Yes it has, but the public school system was never meant to educate, from its original design. We must homeschool and that includes creating local pods and co-ops because we're not alone.