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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (117941)	11/20/2011 1:00:58 PM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224888

Turning our back on 'traditional' education November 18, 2011 Patrice Lewis wnd.com IN REFERENCE TO THE ABOVE The writer is correct, it was in the 1970's and the late 1960's that a good liberal education as liberal was originally used ceased to exist. Here is a partial list of what brought us down: 1. Consolidated public schools were meant to broaden opportunities in learning (Take a walk through America and you will find many small towns that are now ghost towns---------no elementary schools, no high schools that also housed the middle schools-----no football teams , no bands) Consolidated schools were sold on the basis of such reasons as----"if we have larger schools we can attract language teachers----- Latin and English were not enough as one reason.". 2. When the public schools were consolidated the small towns died-the communities died 3. As communities died traditional liberal education died. Separate the students according to IQ tests or some other measure--- such as Math For Slow Learners----then to the next theoretical level of ability and then to the next level. Parents no longer talked to each other about their child's classrooms-----------as Johnny was in Level II and then Susie was in Level III and Alice and Billy were in the lowest level. They no longer were in the same classrooms in which students learned from each other as well as the teacher. Children no longer learned from each other----------as happens when children of all abilities are placed in a classroom together. Children of varying abilities no longer played together. 4. Teachers no longer had control of what would be taught and how. In Mathematics , programmed learning encouraged by the teacher unions and the thinkers at such places as Harvard were mandated by Boards of Education----- mandates then came to place children/students in classrooms according an artificial measure of ability. 5. Mathematics became 'programmed mathematics' ------give a teacher a pre-programmed book on teaching a subject and the students would learn---not so, creativity on the part of teachers was destroyed. 6 . English disappeared as the common language of America. Okay, I am up to number 6. No time to add more --------this is the beginning of why we have people home schooling today . Good article by Patrice Lewis mj