Personal Story: As I See It Part VI
Educational Malfeasance
I had to drag 4 kids through the dysfunctional education system in California. The first two kids were years ago when it was tolerable; the second were withdrawn in middle school in favor of independent study programs where they had at least some opportunity to learn. How does a child go all the way through school and then graduate without ever writing a paper? Or reading classic literature? Classic literature is now offensive and banned in most schools in California and elsewhere. Reading assignments for the most part (even in some of the independent programs) were stories of poor migrant farm workers, and anyone else who could be perceived as a victim. That’s all well and good, but what happened to Shakespeare and the classics? I’m told classic literature is mostly written by white people, so it isn’t politically correct or allowed anymore.
Middle school for my second set of kids consisted of countless meaningless expensive projects that taught absolutely nothing… every year the same diorama or mobile of MLK. Black History month you were allowed to report on MLK, Oprah, or an approved athlete, but a politician like Condoleezza Rice or any other black conservative was forbidden. World Geography in 6th grade was spent studying Islam, over two-thirds of the year studying its wonders. There were many projects, including building a mosque out of candy. The 5thproject on Islam was a requirement for students to attend a mosque. I drew a line there with the agenda and wrote the school board and principal. If the requirement for students had been to visit a Christian church, there would have been picketing and riots everywhere condemning the lack of separation of church and state. Keep in mind that this was not a comparative religion course. I informed the teacher that we would not be attending a mosque and if another project were required on Islam, then we would be doing a pictorial display of beheadings and bus bombings. The mosque visitation was cancelled.
Judaism was only mentioned to talk about dreidel spinning. Hinduism and Buddhism were discussed for a couple of days. Christianity was only mentioned to say the evil Christians slaughtered people during the Crusades. Back when Holiday programs were allowed, you could sing about a miracle in a Hanukkah song, but new words were written for Silent Night not to offend anyone. I’m all for leaving religion out of the public schools, but that’s not what’s happening. The influences from Los Angeles and the like have spread throughout the country. Recent news of parents revolting in Virginia when kids had to translate the Islamic conversion prayer from Arabic, then get up and recite it went just a bit too far. Other states have adopted similar Islamic indoctrination policies. In Los Angeles, there is a lawsuit by parents because a school was forcing students to pray to an Aztec god. By the way, they also promote anti-Semitism and fail to teach anything about the Holocaust. Not surprising that most young people have no idea 6 million Jews were killed, and many believe if they were, it was the fault of the Jews.
LAUSD reduced the number of credits needed to graduate, saying a “D” wouldn’t count, and then changed that because too many people wouldn’t graduate. Everyone is pushed through regardless of whether they learned anything or not. After all the priority is social engineering, not education. The politically liberal/Leftist teacher’s union, along with the liberal politicians in California, is responsible for the educational fiasco. They have dumbed down graduating seniors where they are no longer able to compete with foreign students entering college. Compounding the lack of competitive edge is the fact that affordable community colleges are overrun. Priority enrollment is given to immigrants, legal or not. By the time, the average citizen gets a registration date, it is practically impossible to get needed classes. It is a common problem to have to go 4 years to accumulate 2 years’ worth of required classes for transfer.
On a side note, most people don’t know that Juvenile Hall for years plopped their incarcerated youth, violent or not, in the local public high school during the day to be educated along with the rest of the kids. Someone really thought that was a good idea? Teacher’s hands were tied in dealing with them because if they touched anyone they could be sued. Combatting the drug problem in schools has been an equal failure.
I heard that at one time LA schools also taught trades like carpentry, body shop, and auto mechanics, like the schools still do in the South. But the Lefties, perusing for anything smelling of discrimination found that more minorities took advantage of these programs, so they were deemed obviously discriminatory, and therefore discontinued. The Leftists' snobbery against education and training that produced a job is shameful. Instead, all students began being pushed toward expensive colleges even though they may have no actual ability to start, much less finish a four-year degree. The ones that do graduate, are profoundly ignorant of factual history and life, but are brainwashed sheep following the agenda of the Left.
The University system has for many years been tainted by the Left’s agenda. In looking at offered coursework, 95% in the state schools are agenda-based to indoctrinate students to the far left and produce good little comrades…who like good little soldiers want to ban the American flag, demand “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” in case they are offended by anything and need immediate counseling. African Americans are allowed to segregate themselves from whites to feel “safe.” Seems like racism to me being propagated by the Left. I always believed segregation was a bad thing. They also have taken on the task of purposeful discrimination against whites, Asians, and Christians. The Department of Justice is suing Yale for such discrimination. For many years, whites and Asians have been discriminated against in entering medical school. With the same GPA and MCAT scores, an African American applicant is 80% more likely to be accepted than a white person, and it is even worse, 85%, if you are Asian. It is easy to find the statistics online. It is not uncommon for black and Hispanic applicants to be accepted with GPA’s at or below a 2.0 and practically failing the MCAT, while simultaneously denying admittance to whites and Asians with high GPA’s and test scores. This in itself is discriminatory, for all people to not be held to the same standard. It is also demeaning and racist to suggest that Blacks and Hispanics should NEED the standards lowered. What are you saying by this? You are making a racist statement that they have lower intelligence, thereby needing a lower standard. It also belittling and undermines confidence in the Black and Hispanic applicants that got in because of their exceptional intelligence and work ethic, because people will assume they got a free ride and didn’t deserve their title of Dr.
If you really want a picture of what is going on in education take a look at thecollegefix.com. Columbia professor claims American flag is a symbol of genocide, Brown University researcher claims Trump signs, American flags scare and traumatize black people, University of Minnesota offers 12-step AA-type program to recover from being white, Butler University stops students from voting on a resolution to protect Jewish students on campus, Wake Forest offers new “Antiracist Use of Math” class… it goes on and on. They all teach white, Christian, and Jew hatred, along with pro-Marxist, Communist, anti-American BS.
What’s the end result of all this educational malfeasance? Stupid people. America haters. We’ve produced a generation of the unemployable man-child, woman-child who lives at home until their thirties living off mom and dad. They spend their time pondering their victimhood and how things should be free and easy, taking selfies and Instagramming their every move, creating fake lives and counting followers and likes to boost up their feelings of self-importance. With the constant need for therapy, trigger warnings, and safe zones, compounded with the inability to do anything legitimately, we’ve fostered the most pitiful wimpy generation of all time. If they are unhappy, they have a temper tantrum. It is the Pussification of America.