“We Have Essentially Turned a Blind Eye to Our Own Children for Decades”

Judith Warner, The Washington Post 

“The pandemic hasn’t created a children’s mental health crisis out of nowhere; rather, it’s shone a spotlight on a catastrophe that has been hiding in plain sight for a very long time.”

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The point of going to school is to learn the basic information you need to thrive in life. A lot of this is very simple stuff. Easy for children to learn, if anyone would bother to teach them. I argue that knowledge is priority one. See Episode 39.

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Kids can't seem to learn math. The teachers don't seem to know math. National scores continue to fall. What exactly is the problem?

Can you handle the truth? Clearly, the Education Establishment does not want success in math. So they sabotage it at every opportunity.

New Math, 1964, seems to me to prove this assertion, as explained in…

Kids can't seem to learn math. The teachers don't seem to know math. National scores continue to fall. What exactly is the problem?

Can you handle the truth? Clearly, the Education Establishment does not want success in math. So they sabotage it at every opportunity.

New Math, 1964, seems to me to prove this assertion, as explained in…

Connecting With Students Through Strategic Sharing

Starting a new job is an opportunity to re-invent yourself. It can be a chance to leave whatever baggage you might have had behind you and get a fresh start. Aside from doing the obvious like making a good first impression by introducing yourself to the various stakeholder groups, coming up to speed on what is going on, and doing a “listening tour”, which all are certainly good things to do, you need to consider the following:

• Be visible and…

 I think the dumbing down of public schools is the biggest problem we have. This would be easy to fix.

Apparently, our education establishment believes the creed: make them dumb, our time will come.

This decline in general intelligence leads to lots of collateral damage. People hardly have common sense, never…

 I think the dumbing down of public schools is the biggest problem we have. This would be easy to fix.

Apparently, our education establishment believes the creed: make them dumb, our time will come.

This decline in general intelligence leads to lots of collateral damage. People hardly have common sense, never…

If schools are run properly, children will be full of confidence and enthusiasm.

If children are morose and failing, you know the people in charge are incompetent.

See Episode 35 on this podcast. Hope versus Hopelessness. It often seems to me that schools are organized to produce hopelessness. That's a terrible thought, isn't…