Why Johnny Can't Think

PORETTO points out that not all a school's Rotten Apples are found on the playground.

Are the National Education Association's members interested in being in school? It certainly doesn't look that way. They've consistently agitated for shorter school days and years, and they've almost always gotten what they demand. Here in New York, the standard school day is 6 hours long. Teachers cannot be required to spend more than 6 hours, 45 minutes on the job on a given school day.

Do NEA members take any interest in education as such? Again, the evidence says not. Government-school teachers routinely disrupt the educational experiences of their classes by introducing their political, religious, environmental, social, and other personal views as class topics. In egregious cases, those teachers have assigned political activism to their classes as homework -- and have then used their authority to stifle dissent from the opinions they prescribe.

And it starts very, very early in our schools. Very early indeed.

Posted by Vanderleun at May 25, 2004 12:02 AM | TrackBack