Find myself impatient with parents who continue to vent about learning loss after schools shut down in the pandemic. Learning loss is a better fate than your teachers, parents, grandparents, siblings, etc., dying because you gave them COVID.
If schools stayed open, kids who got infected & survived just fine (never mind kids who died) would have endangered adults around them. School closings saved parent & teacher lives. And yes, kid lives.
Disclaimer: I don't have kids. No skin in this game. Just needed to say that.
@Indefinite_Article
Same here, but I’ve been railing against the American education system since I was in high school. We can still look out for the welfare of kids even though we don’t have any.
Kids are being taught what to think instead of how to think, and that’s been the case for the entire 20th century. It hasn’t changed, except now a lot of them are being taught what to think, and it’s lies and misinformation being purposely pushed into their heads.
Same. My Algebra II teacher said that he and some other teachers were attempting to change the system but weren't getting very far because their ideas were considered radical back then. There have been some changes made quietly in a movement which began informally then spread.
John Taylor Gatto, former NYC Teacher of the Year and author wrote several books, including:
Dumbing Us Down - The Hidden Curriculum Of Compulsory Schooling
Book by John Taylor Gatto
The Underground History of American Education
Book by John Taylor Gatto
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