re: your conclusion - 'couldn't agree more. Any given child has to get the basics down first (reading-writing-arithmetic)...the focus on extraneous and even questionable material is a damaging sideshow. Parents & taxpayers have the right to demand better. You could say it's 'American Decadence & Wealth' that has contributed to the superf…
re: your conclusion - 'couldn't agree more. Any given child has to get the basics down first (reading-writing-arithmetic)...the focus on extraneous and even questionable material is a damaging sideshow. Parents & taxpayers have the right to demand better. You could say it's 'American Decadence & Wealth' that has contributed to the superfluousness of today's current curriculums. Countries not as wealthy as the USA, like the Ukraine, Russia - can't afford all the foolishness; They have to get it right the first time - no remedial learning, no community 'remedial' colleges. They don't have the money to do 'do-overs'. We are an indulged society. Just think, American companies & universities now employ thousands and thousands of 'diversity counselors' just to 'monitor the halls' - we have laws on the books that do the same thing - whereas this human capital, these diversity counselors could be far more productive in actually producing something useful. 'Diversity Culture' is now an industry employing literally an army of Sociology and Ethnic Studies majors. But these jobs, don't produce anything - nothing - they are nothing but another' American indulgence'. As a nation, we will fall from our own rot, a rot from within, from the bad use of human resources and funds. And if we don't start getting serious about educating our youth and demanding more from the work place, yes, we are doomed to be a second rate nation. We are on our way.
re: your conclusion - 'couldn't agree more. Any given child has to get the basics down first (reading-writing-arithmetic)...the focus on extraneous and even questionable material is a damaging sideshow. Parents & taxpayers have the right to demand better. You could say it's 'American Decadence & Wealth' that has contributed to the superfluousness of today's current curriculums. Countries not as wealthy as the USA, like the Ukraine, Russia - can't afford all the foolishness; They have to get it right the first time - no remedial learning, no community 'remedial' colleges. They don't have the money to do 'do-overs'. We are an indulged society. Just think, American companies & universities now employ thousands and thousands of 'diversity counselors' just to 'monitor the halls' - we have laws on the books that do the same thing - whereas this human capital, these diversity counselors could be far more productive in actually producing something useful. 'Diversity Culture' is now an industry employing literally an army of Sociology and Ethnic Studies majors. But these jobs, don't produce anything - nothing - they are nothing but another' American indulgence'. As a nation, we will fall from our own rot, a rot from within, from the bad use of human resources and funds. And if we don't start getting serious about educating our youth and demanding more from the work place, yes, we are doomed to be a second rate nation. We are on our way.