(End of the American Dream)—Our kids can’t really read very well. And it turns out that they aren’t very good at math either. But those running our system of education continue to tell us that they are doing a wonderful job. If they just had more funding, they insist, our test scores would go way up. Of course that is complete and utter nonsense. Our system of public education was a failure back when I was in school many years ago, and it is much worse now. At this point, only about one-third of all U.S. students in the fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades are proficient in reading…
In 2022, the National Assessment of Educational Progress reported that approximately one-third of students in fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades are proficient in reading. The situation even gets worse for certain groups such as people from a different race, older generations, and those who belong to low-income groups.
So do you know what this means?
It means that approximately two-thirds of all students in the fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades are not proficient in reading.
Wow, that is really terrible.
And it is also being reported that 40 percent of our students “are essentially nonreaders”…
Biennial testing through NAEP consistently shows that two thirds of U.S. children are unable to read with proficiency. An astounding 40 percent are essentially nonreaders. Most are taught through phonics—a system of instruction based on sounding out letters that is mandated in at least 32 states and the District of Columbia. The phonics method of converting each letter to a particular sound is totally unsuited to the English language. As but one example, e, the most common letter in print, has 11 different pronunciations (end, eat, vein, eye, etc.), including its role as the much-taught “silent e” (tape, cute, fine, etc.). This failure has been endemic from the early days of the country when Benjamin Franklin fought against phonics. The steady expansion of this mode of instruction will not fix the situation.
Isn’t that great?
We are headed for a future where approximately 40 percent of the entire population cannot even function in society.
In some areas of the country it is even worse.
In Chicago, only about one-sixth of all third graders are able to read at grade level…
About one-sixth of all third-grade students in Chicago Public Schools can read at grade level. For low-income and minority students, the share of proficient readers is even lower.
They tax the living daylights out of us to fund these public schools.
So where is all of that money going?
One activist that was asked about the current state of affairs openly admitted that “the kids can’t read”…
“The kids can’t read – nobody wants to just say that,” said Kareem Weaver, an activist with the NAACP in Oakland, California, who has framed literacy as a civil rights issue.
This is a national disgrace.
Of course our kids are not too good at math either.
In fact, U.S. students just established another all-time record low on an international exam…
American students scored an all-time low in math on a major international exam, which provided the first comparison of global achievement since the pandemic radically changed education around the world.
According to data released Tuesday, American 15-year-olds had a 13 point plunge out of 1000 on the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) exam, which was given last year to 620,000 students in 81 countries worldwide.
Yay for our public schools!
We are hitting levels that our students have never hit before!
But even though our students can’t read, write or do math very well, they just keep getting moved through the system year after year.
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As long as you show up, you are going to pass.
We have become a “participation trophy society” where nobody is ever supposed to fail or feel bad about themselves.
This is true even at a formerly elite institution such as Yale University. At this point, nearly 80 percent of the grades that are given to undergraduates at Yale fall within “the A-range”…
A new report recently revealed that Yale University is apparently handing about grades in the A-range like they are candy. An estimated 78.97% of all the grades given to undergraduates at the prestigious university fell within the A-range.
The surprising development has left both students and faculty alarmed that high grades appear to have lost their value, according to the New York Times. Shelly Kagan, a philosophy professor, said: “When we act as though virtually everything that gets turned in is some kind of A — where A is supposedly meaning ‘excellent work’ — we are simply being dishonest to our students.”
The grade report was put together by economics professor Ray Fair, who noted that the increase in grades started during the COVID-19 pandemic. And it has continued to rise since then, with students averaging a 3.70 GPA, up from 3.60 in 2013-2014. The details of the study were first shared with the Yale Daily News.
How bad do you have to be in order to get a “B” at Yale?
I would honestly like to know.
Of course this isn’t just happening at Yale. All over the nation, “good grades” have essentially become meaningless at our major colleges and universities.
Our kids have come to expect that “success” will just be handed to them, and as a result our system is pumping out millions of young adults that are just like this guy…
On an episode of Caleb Hammer’s YouTube show Financial Audit, 41-year-old Brent of Auston, Texas, reveals he has no steady job, no savings and relies on his parents to pay rent. But he refuses to accept work that’s “beneath” him.
“You’re being a baby,” Hammer told him after he confessed he turned down a job at a fast food restaurant. “Why will you not accept the jobs that you feel are slightly beneath you?”
Our system of education is theoretically supposed to be preparing our kids to face the real world, and that just isn’t happening.
The real world is not pleasant. It does not hand out participation trophies. In fact, there are times when the real world will pick you up and knock the breath out of you.
But now we have vast hordes of young people that cannot deal with the real world, and they are completely and utterly unprepared to deal with the extremely uncertain future that our society is now facing.
We don’t do our kids any favors by coddling them. They need to be challenged, and unfortunately our absolutely pathetic system of education is not challenging them at all.
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It’s because the schools were all infiltrated and taken over by communists beginning in the 1950’s but now completed and in their third going on fourth generation. (Read “School Of Darkness” autobiography by Bella Dodd” former CPUSA President,” and “The New Criterion,” and “Partisan Review,” literary quarterlies published in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Education was never their priority, it’s all about indoctrination and carefully selecting who will or will not succeed.
Females control education. They suffer from delusions of persecution. They believe they are oppressed by white men. And so are other groups. So they pass all the poor oppressed students out of sympathy for their plight.
This is not new, Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt documents all this in her book “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America.” You can download the free pdf from her website…..https://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/deliberate-dumbing-down/
I’m interested to know what the author suggests as an alternative to phonics. As a teacher of over 30 years who has seen phonics fall out of favor (Whole Language) and back in again, I can assure you that learning to read and write in the English language without phonics instruction is a disaster. Yes there are a lot of rules, and memorization of words that don’t fit in the rules, but without some structure to it most of the kids simply don’t learn to read or spell. The biggest reason kids aren’t learning to read is that they are spending too much time on fluff and indoctrination. I homeschooled our three boys. The first few years all we did was reading, writing and math, with a bit of science sprinkled in. We added sports activities for P.E., and lots of playtime. Boys are notoriously for performing behind girls in early literacy, but mine soared. By second grade they could decode way above grade level, so we continued working on comprehension at increasingly higher levels. As far as math, I have one who aced honors calculus in the 9th grade and is going into mechanical engineering. The others have done well.
Currently I’m teaching for a company that provides Title I services in private schools for children who are behind in reading and math. Small group instruction in reading for grades K-2 has a heavy phonics emphasis. Guess what happens in small group intervention where we don’t focus on nonsense? The scores increase dramatically.
What happened to our education system? Liberals. That’s what happened. It’s very simple.
It’s all been a lie. Since the early 70’s the erosion of individualism and self reliance has destroyed our civic fabric where we were all held accountable. The NEA is who implemented the planned destruction and slow communist takeover of the system. Randy Weingarten should be held accountable for her recent part in the cover-up.
what happened is the Department of Education, a classic oxymoron. Every year since then our kids have scored lower and lower against kids from other countries.
It stems from a concentration of power. Now, just a few people in Washington have a massive effect on our schools across the country. So once a few idiots get in charge of Dep.Ed., the schools are screwed. The feds enforce their stupidity by holding billions of education dollars hostage to their lunatic ideas.
Entire libraries of books have been written on the dangers of a bureaucracy,
What in the World Has Happened to Our System of Education?
DEMOCRATS is the one word answer.
wow, not a single comment on the direct and linear relationship between ed.’s big slide and biblical christianity’s parallel sink. this IS a christian website, yeah??
progressivism and woke teachers unions more interested in indoctrination than education – their feelings are more important than facts – we need to disband the Dept. of ED and return ED to the states
UNIONIZATION is what ‘happened’ to our ‘education’.
UNIONS PROTECT THE ONES THAT DO NOT WORK…now we have thousands of ‘teachers’ that do not teach, BUT THE BENNIES CONTINUE TO GROW-to the TAXPAYERS BURDENS and to our END DAYS.