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Because what you’re saying is correct, the counterbalance - a solid education - is essential. However, the fact that self-serving power mongers hijacked our schools seems to be ignored when you should be shouting about it as it was the antidote to people becoming prey. You can hear teacher whistleblowers at whitechalkcrime.com who are th…
Because what you’re saying is correct, the counterbalance - a solid education - is essential. However, the fact that self-serving power mongers hijacked our schools seems to be ignored when you should be shouting about it as it was the antidote to people becoming prey. You can hear teacher whistleblowers at WhiteChalkCrime.com who are the few who aren’t afraid to expose the intellectual version of Harvey Weinstein we’ve been dealing with as teachers - forcing us to go along with stupidity. Or read their stories at EndTeacherAbuse.org. They’ve all but buried learning.
Most significantly, the teachers’ unions cower to this. THIS is why our country is a mess. It’s not just social media. It’s dealing with it entirely unprepared by our schools in a nation that has no respect for its teachers because they’re forced to go along to get along.
When these mobsters silenced the called to teach teachers, they sent democracy packing! YET, none of the intellectual leaders are talking about this mostly because these power mongers succeeded at getting them not to respect the people who know how learning happens. This is what must change for democracy to have a chance.
Then, once people understand the theft of our schools, they can run for school boards on a save democracy platform and do just that.
A way to prepare students for life with the issues of constant social media bombardment is through social and emotional learning or SEL. As a concept, this is not new, but its level of implementation varies. The sell to parents is that their kids do demonstrably better on grades and achievement tests.
Often the STEM movement butts up against SEL and crowds it out. The result over time will be to produce a bunch of graduates capable of jobs that AI will take over but who are unable to function in society and challenging interpersonal situations. The default behavior then becomes fantasy football or horse racing and treating elections as entertainment.
How kids do demonstrably better on grades and achievement tests --- IEP for all.
Until people get that dysfunctional schools are intentional - so that people who are clueless about learning can maintain lucrative administrative positions - we will continue our downward spiral. Most people think it’s impossible to reform education. The truth is: those running our schools make sure no one can reform education as they’d be out of a job if it happened! And the teachers’ unions go along to get along cowering in fear because the media won’t investigate this. We must question why the media wont investigate this!