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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 5, 2024 18:59:42 GMT -8
I could post this piece in a number of different strings, but at the most basic level, I believe this string is appropriate. Students struggle to read a bookThe education establishment is, more than any other institution, responsible for the degradation of the USA. This is a subject that was well covered at ST, but to truly cover the problem could take volumes. That said, let me dig down to one of the root causes...the Communists took over the system and dumbed children down over the last 40-50 years, minimum. Regardless who wins the next election, I wonder if such an ignorant country can maintain itself against increasing competition from the rest of the world. As Trump mentioned in his speech today, the USA spends more than any other nation in the world per student, but we stand in the low 30s as to scholastic results when compared to the rest of the world. |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 5, 2024 20:20:01 GMT -8
No, it's because they've been treated like Kindergartners all their lives.
Okay, I'm a critic of anti-social media. But I'm calling bullshit on this as a catch-all excuse. The human mind is able to both do rapid-fire things one moment and more engaged and prolonged things the next. I think the answer lies elsewhere.
It has to do with (wait for it) having been treated like a Kindergartner most of their lives. They're not exposed to the harder and richer things. Instead of rhetorically having to eat their vegetables (Mozart, Shakespeare, Rembrandt). Instead, they are fed a diet of cotton-candy: Rap, Marvel comic movies, Marvel comics themselves. Sorry, but adults should have passed the stage of reading comics and (to my mind) playing with Legos. But both are yuge pursuits for a great many "adults" these days.
Yes, I do acknowledge the addictive and possibly brain-altering aspects of anti-social media. Good god, there are reliable reports that people (kids or adults) are looking at their screens for seven or more hours a day. A day!
Even if it is half that, the problem becomes one not of attention span, per se. But just free time. Reading a book takes at least a half hour block of free time. (I certainly don’t sit down and commonly read for more than 45 minutes.)
Yeah, like I said.
Then, I'm sorry. But that's your own friggin' fault then. What happened to being the authority figure of a teacher? Of being the adult in the room? Of course kids aren't going to do things that are good for them (in the long run), especially if it's something different. Who's the teacher here? Flunk the little bastards if they won't do the work. The problem is the adults not adhering to standards and providing consequences for their students who don't meet them.
Like I said, I'm not buying all this bullshit of blaming it on social media. Do your job.
Which goes right in line with the lowering standards for admission. Again, asshole physician, heal thyself.
Yes. We definitely agree on that, Mr. Kung.
That answer is: As long as women are in charge (especially of education), no. We're screwed.
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Post by kungfuzu on Oct 6, 2024 9:45:49 GMT -8
To my mind, the problems arise from poor parenting and poor schooling. By the time children get to school, they have too often been left to develop into something like feral cats without any discipline and less knowledge. At the best of times, schools would have a difficult time coping with this situation. But today schools worsen things.
One got a particularly clear view of this in the fall of 2022. The new kindergarteners were totally unruly. They had not focus, no disciple, were very difficult to control much less teach. Mdm. Flu turned down a full-time job to teach such a group as chaos is not something one wants to experience everyday. The woman who took the job quit in tears after a few months of dealing with the little animals.
Yes, I predicted this damage would come about when the authorities enforced KFF shutdowns on the nation, but I also hold the parents responsible. Having a number of children at home, instead of at the state babysitting service, seemed to be too much for these parents to handle. Young children have to been engaged and taught constantly. They have to be shown what is acceptable and what is not. They cannot be left completely to their own devices less they become little monsters.
That's interesting. I generally don't sit down to read a book unless I have at least an hour of reading time before me. That is why I mostly read history and novels late at night. Of course, I read a lot of other pieces during the day, but generally speaking these don't take more than a few minutes each.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 6, 2024 16:00:10 GMT -8
I completely agree. It's just another way of talking about the process that turns them into Forever Kindergartners.
Oh my. If Artler were here, he would say that he understands well the dangers of going into a war zone. Wonder what happened. I still often think about that and wonder.
You just wrote the mission statement for the Kung & Nelson Educational Academy. That would also be chiseled on the archway as you enter the grounds.
I usually do my reading just before going to bed. Everything is shut off and it's finally quiet. And it tends to make me sleepy, so much of the time constraint has to do with that. But if I'm really engaged in a book, it's not that hard to occasionally do a couple hours straight. But rare is the book these days that can get me to do that.
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Post by kungfuzu on Nov 2, 2024 10:19:36 GMT -8
As I demonstrated years back, the financiers are at the basis of the destruction of our country. Among other things, BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard are behind the insane DEI policies which have been eating away at our social fabric and lowering the level of performance in all areas of life. This former executive of Disney is now proclaiming this fact. Hollywood's DEI insanity due to financiers' demands |
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Post by Brad Nelson on Nov 2, 2024 15:50:12 GMT -8
I never said women can't think. But when infected with liberalism, they become highly irrational. Kudos on Monica Harris for calling a spade a spade with some concise analysis.
The question becomes, Why do investment firms prioritize DEI? Perhaps their ranks are over-represented by liberal women. I don't know. But there must be a reason.
The "incoming class" to what? But never didn't I suppose that women weren't at the core of this. And probably bossy black women are highly influential as a sub-group.
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