It’s a common feature throughout public school education: methods that not only don’t work but seem designed not to work.

This is so puzzling that when you first encounter the possibility, your mind rejects it. Why would people in education design methods that defeat education?

 I think New Math was a glaring example. Reform Math continues the same tradition. The Internet is full of videos of children crying because they cannot understand the homework.  Children learn from this abuse that they hate the subject and don’t want any more of it. So much for STEM.

The paradigm for all this mischief is Whole Word. Introduced in 1931, this nonsensical way to learn to read has succeeded in creating tens of millions of functional illiterates. But our Education Establishment is so relentless, they never give up a bad idea..They just give it a new name and new marketing.

Children are still coming home with lists of sight-words to memorize. Sight-words are the ultimate example of scam and sabotage.

One thing is for sure: teachers can never assume that administrators have given them the best tools for the job.

 "Education: Schools for Sabotage" is an article on these topics.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/07/education_schools_for_sabota...