Oh boy. I applaud their intention, but talk about a pack a’ lost puppies where making it happen is concerned!
You cannot teach grit, tough has to be cultivated and grown, it is NOT a skill, it is an attitude!
Probably their best bet would be to run ALL the teachers and counselors through the training the Army gives their civilian drill instructors. That is one summer of “continueing education” credit.
There will be several deep changes needed at the school board level. Full purge and deportation of any residual element of the s.i.c “feel good” philosophy. That B.S. did more to destroy the quality of the working class kid’s education than sex and pot pulling in tandem. They had toxic positivity detectors online decades before the shrinks hung the name.
Perhaps the deepest change needed will be in the curriculums. MAJOR POINT! All, and I do mean all, public education must transition to the most advanced material the teachers can support. Where the quality of the materials presented is concerned the kids are fully aware of public education’s blatant systemic bias determined by the parent’s social status. You cannot fully eliminate that out of the system, but you can negate most of the harm it does by giving everyone an equal swing at the top of the tree stuff. So what if a passing grade goes from 70% to 20%? Twenty percent of five hundred is a lot more than seventy percent of fifty.
I could write a book on this subject from personal experience. I did thirteen school systems before I told the liars to shove it and took off to seek my own fate and fortune in the world. Allow me to share an anecdote by way of an example of what it will take for California to achieve this intention.
See him, a stocky strong bulldog of a man, gray hair, steel blue eyes, the air of cmmand about him, and he limped a bit from a war wound flying a B17 against Nazi Germany. He walked into a new class of 7th grade drafting students, took a long moment to look us over, and then snorted. Snorted like an old bull. I’ll never forget the gift he gave us with his next words, words that would get him fired today.
“I don’t have the time to teach you dumb ass yard apes the science of engineering. But if you’ll hang with me I can teach you the art of the thing.”
That one acknowledgment of reality did more for us than any and every chunk of psychobabble bs ever attempted. RIP old man. You’re remembered with love.
July 22, 2024 @ 2:43 pm
Oh boy. I applaud their intention, but talk about a pack a’ lost puppies where making it happen is concerned!
You cannot teach grit, tough has to be cultivated and grown, it is NOT a skill, it is an attitude!
Probably their best bet would be to run ALL the teachers and counselors through the training the Army gives their civilian drill instructors. That is one summer of “continueing education” credit.
There will be several deep changes needed at the school board level. Full purge and deportation of any residual element of the s.i.c “feel good” philosophy. That B.S. did more to destroy the quality of the working class kid’s education than sex and pot pulling in tandem. They had toxic positivity detectors online decades before the shrinks hung the name.
Perhaps the deepest change needed will be in the curriculums. MAJOR POINT! All, and I do mean all, public education must transition to the most advanced material the teachers can support. Where the quality of the materials presented is concerned the kids are fully aware of public education’s blatant systemic bias determined by the parent’s social status. You cannot fully eliminate that out of the system, but you can negate most of the harm it does by giving everyone an equal swing at the top of the tree stuff. So what if a passing grade goes from 70% to 20%? Twenty percent of five hundred is a lot more than seventy percent of fifty.
I could write a book on this subject from personal experience. I did thirteen school systems before I told the liars to shove it and took off to seek my own fate and fortune in the world. Allow me to share an anecdote by way of an example of what it will take for California to achieve this intention.
See him, a stocky strong bulldog of a man, gray hair, steel blue eyes, the air of cmmand about him, and he limped a bit from a war wound flying a B17 against Nazi Germany. He walked into a new class of 7th grade drafting students, took a long moment to look us over, and then snorted. Snorted like an old bull. I’ll never forget the gift he gave us with his next words, words that would get him fired today.
“I don’t have the time to teach you dumb ass yard apes the science of engineering. But if you’ll hang with me I can teach you the art of the thing.”
That one acknowledgment of reality did more for us than any and every chunk of psychobabble bs ever attempted. RIP old man. You’re remembered with love.