Has political correctness ruined public education in the USA?

Question

Our kids know who MLK is and know about America's "oppression" of minorities and homosexuals. But, far too many of them cannot read, write, spell, or do simple arithmetic. Hats off to the loons on the far left. Quite a job you have done.

PETEY - My property taxes are current. Thank you for asking.

I blame teacher's unions for much of it, and they are predominantly democrat.

CINNER - Excellent point. Thank you.

WHY? - If you grow up, i hope you succeed.

Answer 1

IKE ~ As someone who works in a public school, the American people cannot even begin to comprehend the leftist ideology that is inculcated on the youth of America everyday. It is absolutely frightening. Our enemies love politically correct Americans though!

Answer 2

What you are saying is correct. They learn all about global warming (which is NOT proven), the Muslim religion, birth control and a bunch of other trash they don't need to know. But they can't read a "chapter book" without pictures. Doesn't anyone in government look at the difference between current public education and that of our parents when they were taught reading, writing and arithmetic? And the loony left thinks if we throw more money at it it will make everything better. Oh puhleez!
***ADD: Redfalcongirl. True it's been awhile since I was in school. But I do have four children and one of them is a school teacher. So I have seen the education system as a student, a parent of students and a parent of a teacher. I know you think you know everything there is to know about education because you have "tons" of homework but you won't truly understand the entire concept until you are older.

Answer 3

Yes, no question.

I found out from a professor of greek archeology in Europe that the adoption of political correctness heralded the collapse of greek democracy, since it resulted in people no longer saying things straight, and that this was most evidenced in classic greek plays, since at the start, the plays were really awesome, but as political correctness seeped in, they become really boring and didn't point out any problems in society.

Anyhow, my question back to you would be, do you think the US is repeating history with the current politically correct movement?

Answer 4

Public education is the worst things we can do to the kids. To take from Neal Boortz, handing our minds of our children to government ran schools is the worst thing we can do. Teacher unions have driven down teachers responsibilities to your kids, and pass them no matter what. Government ran schools? Come on, what is the government good at running.
I am going to save up and send my kids to a private school. Not to a union ran institution who cares not about education, but the teachers more than the kids.

Answer 5

No, the federal government ruined public education. why would we give a monopoly on public education to the federal government? The competition to give the best education to our children has been eliminated. It doesn't help that teachers can have sex with their students and can be horrible teachers and the teachers union will fight to make sure they keep their job and get paid the same as the good teachers! Department of Education is a joke.

Just a side note....the no child left behind act was the doing of ted kenedy...

Answer 6

Have any of yall been in a school(except for the dude above me) where all of this is happening? I don't think so, so how would YOU know what it's like? You probably don't, most of you are basing your opinions on politician's opinions and not on actual experience.

I get loads of homework each day and all of our teachers urge us to do more than just pass the TAKS test.I blame it all on the government because all our government cares about is competing with Japan. Not necessarily Bush but majority of congress. They don't understand that Japan is a nearly perfect country and with a country such as america with such diversity and more different opinions because of disversity it makes it near impossible.

Question: What does "oppression" have to do with kids unable to read or write or doing arithmetic correctly?

PS I make all A's and have gotten 95 or above on my TAKS test almost every year.
Also, "civics" is defined in school as U.S. History and World History and whatever history class. But about global warming, thats actually in my biology book and we're learning about it right now. It actually states that global warming cannot be proven but they mainly state facts about pollution and environment stuff rather than global warming. Also, almost every science teacher Ive had prefers to stay outside the book as much as possible since science is always changing and do more unconventional teaching rather than just stuff from the book.

To cinner, the birth control class (at least in texas) is only held once a year to a certain grade and it is optional. We do not need to do it if we don't want to know. I actually had some friends who didn't do it that year.

Answer 7

How do you blame the loons on the far left? Mississippi has the stupidest kids in the entire country and the state is hardly run by left-wingers. Since the end of WW II, which party has controlled the White House (and thus, the Dept of Education) the longest? As you neocons like to brag, it was you of course! Maybe if you spent less time attacking bona fide science like Darwinian Evolution and Global Warming (and up until recently, that cigarettes were addictive or caused cancer), and spent less time worrying how to get fundamentalist Protestantism back into schools, and spent more time focusing on actual education, then kids would be doing better. But I doubt you'd think that's even possible. Your own inability to think critically, and even entertain the possibility that you're part of the problem, is a hilarous example of what's wrong with education in this country.

Answer 8

Political correctness is ruining the entire USA.

Answer 9

Teaching about MLK and other violations of civil rights is part of civics. It is just as much a part of education as reading, writing, and arithmetic. Or is it teaching about the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence that keeps them from reading, etc.? That's part of civics, too. All education in topics, whether they are topics you approve of or not, includes reading. What is ruining public education today is parents who fail to teach their children the importance of education, who do not make sure they do their homework, who do not read to their children, and who allow electronic babysitters which require no intellectual skills at all to monopolize the children's time.

Answer 10

No. Here in our conservative district the ones who know about such things read and write very well, we have left behind many of our supporters though. Our conservative students have terrible grammar and writing mechanics, plus their reading comprehension is terrible. They don't even care, they say Bush doesn't do that stuff, why should I? They think slogans are more important than facts. You have to put some blame on their conservative parents for being such rubes though....

When our students are writing rambling rants about Jesus and GWB they are receiving scores of 50% and less on standardized writing tests. Maybe libs are grading them?