The left is truly dumbing down America’s kids.
It’s nothing new.
But based on the insane education policy recently implemented by the state of Oregon, it looks like the future of America’s already awful public school system is getting worse.
Last month, as the media just learned, Oregon’s Gov. Kate Brown quietly signed a bill that dropped the requirement that high schoolers had to prove they were proficient in reading, writing and math before they graduated.
The bill’s supporters claim that considering math and reading as essential skills all these years has been, you guessed it, unfair to kids of color who do not test well.
They claim the new bill was written “to truly reflect what every student needs to thrive in the 21st century.”
And they say that it will specifically help the state’s “Black, Latino, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Tribal, and students of color.”
Only in our upside-down and dumb world of woke politics, which assumes that only white kids can learn to read and count, could someone actually believe that the futures of kids of color will be helped by lowering education standards.
Guess those progressives in Oregon missed the 2017 movie “Hidden Figures,” the true story of the brilliant black women whose computer-like math skills helped NASA safely send John Glenn into Earth orbit – and bring him back – in 1962.
What the people in charge of Oregon are doing is sad enough.
What’s even sadder is that Fox News and a dozen conservative pundits are the only ones who seem to be outraged.
I don’t expect the liberals at CNN or the New York Times to care. But where are the kids’ parents?
Black and brown parents in Oregon and every major U.S. city who can’t afford private schools, or who are unable to homeschool their kids, should be marching and protesting and raising holy Hell with local politicians of both parties.
Black and brown communities should be voting out their school boards and demanding that schools get back to teaching the basics.
That means teaching their kids how to read, count and think – not what to think.
Most of all, though, black and brown parents should be demanding school choice, so that they are no longer forced to send their kids to the crappy public school in their designated district.
All parents should have as much choice in choosing their kids’ taxpayer-financed education as they do in choosing a car dealer or a grocery store – more actually.
Everyone would see how wrong – and stupid — it would be if parents in poor city neighborhoods were forced by law to buy their food only at the crummy local grocery because it’s within the boundaries of a carefully drawn government “Grocery District.”
Parents should be given a school voucher for what their city school district spends per student – upwards of $20,000 a year in most big cities – and be allowed to spend it at any public or private school they want.
For at least half a century black and brown and white kids trapped in our inner-city public school systems have been getting a fourth-rate education.
Seventy five percent of them can’t read or do math at their grade levels – but they’re automatically passed to the next grade anyway.
And most of the kids that do “graduate” from our worst city schools are barely qualified to run a register at a McDonald’s, much less go to a college or get an entry-level job with a future.
That’s because kids aren’t being taught the basics.
Instead, they’re being taught Critical Race Theory, a racist and twisted way of looking at our history that teaches school kids to hate America and hate white people.
I’m so glad the people who founded this country are dead so they can’t see what’s going on.
I’m also glad Martin Luther King Jr. is dead, so he can’t see how our failed educators are using the BS of Critical Race Theory to judge people by the color of their skin and not their character.
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Only in our upside-down and dumb world of woke politics, which assumes that only white kids can learn to read and count,
Are people of color going to tolerate this racist attack??
They (Democrats) claim the new bill was written “to truly reflect what every student needs to thrive in the 21st century.”…… Huh??
Well, I guess if the Democrats succeed in turning the U.S.A. into a “Socialist Democrat Party Dictator State”, We ALL will be Slaves, Subjects and Wards of the “Socialist Democrat Party Dictator State” and the State will tell you everything to do and think.
That’s because kids aren’t being taught the basics.
Instead, they’re being taught Critical Race Theory, a racist and twisted way of looking at our history that teaches school kids to hate America and hate white people.
With the amount who CONTINUE TO VOTE DEM, even though for YEARS they have continually called minorities “TOO STUPID TO DO X”, YES, they will keep up their tolerance of the dem party..
“Oregon will eliminate proficiency standards for reading, math, and other subjects. This is happening as schools attempt to further indoctrinate our children with critical race theory and other leftist ideals. Is it any wonder that today’s students favor socialism in record numbers?
Mitch McConnell and other GOP senators vote to approve the Biden infrastructure bill. Plus, the crisis at the border keeps getting worse.
AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO TRUST AND HAVE FAITH IN OUR GOVERNMENT????? 🙁 🙁 🙁
I certainly have lost ALL FAITH i once had in govt.. AND I doubt anyone would ever, be able to do a damn thing, to gain it back.
“The left is truly dumbing down America’s kids.”
“Only in our upside-down and dumb world of woke politics, which assumes that only white kids can learn to read and count, could someone actually believe that the futures of kids of color will be helped by lowering education standards.”
And to drive the point home even further—this trend is being promoted by none other than educated people—most of whom, I am sure, have at least four-year degrees. They, themselves, are products of our public education system—can they not think and reason any better than this? Look at the lack of intellect among the people supposedly leading our country—for that matter, even on local and state levels. The ideas that some of these people come up with makes you wonder of they have even a hint of common sense—much less formal education.
Shortchanging students who may be slower than others and allowing them to graduate is not addressing the problem. Proficiency tests are not about unfairness—they show what needs to be done with a given student. Life is not a continual winning streak upon graduation—students must be prepared to be able to face challenges and overcome them. As in so many things, Liberal politics has no place in education.
I read another article on this subject (can I use that term) titled “Death of Education”. NO. This is the “Death of America” coming soon to a theater near you.
ITS not ‘coming soon’. ITS ALREADY HERE and has been here since OBAMA was in office.
As the mother of two Latina daughters and the wife of a Latino man I am outraged at the suggestion that the color of their skin somehow means that they cannot achieve. How condescending that these liberal leaders believe that those who don’t have white skin are inferior in their capabilities. My husband is extremely successful having been a CEO of a large company and now owning his own business. My girls are voracious readers and studying topics well above their grade level.
Of course, since we don’t want them to be indoctrinated with the idea that their ethnic heritgage will limit their possibilites we’ve been home educating them since kindergarten.
Black kids are just as smart as white kids ,but democrats want them too dumb to think for themselves. Studying is acting American . MLK had a college degree. He believed in the power of education. If you truly want to close the wealth and income gap ,then education is your answer . But have you also noticed that when blacks are educated then become republicans.