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You’ll find the answers to why Trump unfortunately won in my book, A Graver Danger, at whitechalkcrime.com. It’s time that people who have a voice listen to a teacher who has had no voice. We could have fixed this. I’ve been sounding this alarm since 1995. Learn about it before our now autocratic government bans my voice
We’re here becaus…
You’ll find the answers to why Trump unfortunately won in my book, A Graver Danger, at WhiteChalkCrime.com. It’s time that people who have a voice listen to a teacher who has had no voice. We could have fixed this. I’ve been sounding this alarm since 1995. Learn about it before our now autocratic government bans my voice
We’re here because the media never reported the corruption in our schools that I, a teacher, tried to report since 1995. In fact, I wrote a 2008 book about it. Oprah’s researcher phoned me with my book in hand and then did nothing. The list of people I begged to help us is heart wrenching.
Abraham Lincoln correctly said, "The philosophy of the school room in one generation, will be the philosophy of government in the next."
I was up against the hidden education mafia when I taught. The next has happened partly because the people that know our schools are corrupt demanded change and partly because the schools stopped producing citizens. When you read my book you’ll wonder why it took this long.
It is more than schools Karen, much more.
I encapsulate it as the Incel Viagra vote.
Trump won because he got the lion share of the Incel Viagra vote.
I agree. Reagan started the attack on the Universities, particularly in the 'useless' courses like History and Civics. The Republicans continued throughout the years until now they reached Kindergarten and public schools in general. No Child Left Behind meant all children left behind as they conclude with eliminating the Department of Education, drafting kids from public schools only, eliminating child labor laws, and banning books.
History and civics are not useless, if they were actually taught, and not the bullshit we receive their might not have been a Tea Party and it's offspring MAGA.
George Santyana said He who does not remember the past will relive it.
George Orwll: He who controls the past ,controls the present, he who controls the present controls the future.
In Russia the people are taught about the Great Patriotic war and the NAZI threat is kept alive and as real as yesterday.
In Arab countries the crusades are not ancient history, they are yesterday.
History is very important, civics even more so, but the question is whose history and whose version of civics.
I agree William as Americans have very short attention spans and our general knowledge of history seems to consist of Hollywood movies. And as for knowledge about other countries, that is at best spotty and certainly doesn't extend to how other developed countries have succeeded with "socialized" medical care and higher education available to all. Also, science is barely understood by many, which was certainly evident during the pandemic and as well as in how climate change is not being addressed.
But what else is needed is an understanding of economics. Biden seems to have been blamed for the inflation of the last few years without any public understanding of the Fed's role in putting money out during the pandemic...but then the Fed isn't understood either. (The Democrats should have addressed this whole topic head on, but they didn't.) Of course if people knew how to manage money they wouldn't get high interest loans and maybe they would control their spending much better, taking on less debt. So I guess there's a reason why personal finances isn't taught well either.
docrhw I am going to be trite here, but all one needs to understand is supply and demand and marginal utility., fixed and variable costs, all the rest is mumbo jumbo and my Bachelors is in Economics.
People don;t manage their budgets because they are addicted to and expect immediate gratification and pass it on to our children. Look at the mad rush for Christmas Shopping. Your child won't love you unless they have an iPhone and an iPhone 16 at that.
It has nothing to do with personal finances. shit people don't even balance their checkbook, they overspend and get hit with fees, and even buy food on the credit card. They pay interest on shit, created 8 hours after they eat, but pay the interest for years.
Your right about the Fed, and I bet you don't understand it either.
Why is it the Fed uses interest rates to cool inflation?
That is because our money supply,responds to supply and demand.
Raise interest rates and theoretically you reduce the money supply, however theory doesn't hold, in a society that is addicted to debt.
Browse the floor of a casino and you will see what I mean.
What people don't know and are not told by economists or the "experts" on TV,is that ours, and the worlds mostly, is a fractional reserve system.
What that means is that lending institutions must have on reserve a fraction of the money that the create when they loan money for a mortgage, a car loan or even credit cards.
Reserves, in the U.S. are Government Securities. Corporate Bonds and check accounts (demand deposits, not savings accounts or time deposits)
If they have, say $100 in reserve, they can create money by loaning $1,000
It is just a book keeping entry,and as the debt is paid off or paid down, the portion of the principle is paid off.
However the loan does not include the interest that is to be paid, the interest is not paid off and paid down, and that is what causes long term inflation that is why a candy bar that cost $.25 cents in 1978, and costs $.05 cents in 1968, costs $1.50 today
Short term inflation, the price of gas, eggs,bread and milk, are the result of supply and demand, as well as price gouging by middlemen and producers.
Price gouging only works if the item is perishable (milk, eggs) and supply exceeds demand (gasoline).
I am not sure about bread, manufacturers can store cereal grains, but they can't store eggs. the only way to affect the price of eggs is to slaughter the chickens, but that is financial suicide.
I agree except a family emergency sometimes requires debt and interest is too high.
Yes that can happen but when my students don't understand that they can get cheaper car loans from credit unions than large banks, or don't realize what their mortgage is going to cost them over time then clearly there is a gap in their education. And forget about using credit cards to pay off last month's luxuries with next month's salary! Compound interest and how to make it work for you (like an IRA) rather than against you (bad debt) should be studied in high school. It rarely is.
Yes I mention this started with Reagan in my book. People have no idea like they had no idea about a Harvey Weinstein. Same power structure but this one is intellectual rape.
I tried to understand the problem, but I didn't until I was elected to the school board. The parents blamed the teachers, and the teachers blamed the parents when intentional policies that came down from the top were the problem. The system was working the way they wanted it to.
You have no idea how much it helped to hear this. I am agonizing whether to give up my 29 year mission to expose what’s really going on in our schools thinking it won’t matter. Autocracies don’t have schools to maintain a democracy. He will put his henchmen in and the schools will remain as is. They are perfect for him.
I have a solid plan for genuine schools but that doesn’t matter anymore. In my book I said if he wins I’m done. I did what I did to save democracy. Now I’m thinking will people feel better knowing what I know? Is my calling to teach clicking in now as I so didn’t fit in those schools? I’m not sure what to do from here. My book has been #1 on Amazon; it’s a shame to abandon it. My only plan was to get an international publisher before he bans it. I write so much about him he will ban it. I want it in German so those people can feel better about their bad choice.
So it really helped to hear what you said. If I can offer peace of mind understanding how Trump happened then I can move onto a new mission. And although I have a great plan to fix our schools, I know the door is shut for that. I’m having a hard time figuring out where to go with what I know so well. Your comment helps me understand how much people need to read my book.
What then is the solution Karen, you have aptly defined the problem written a book about it, but what is the solution?
Father funded education?
Parochial education?
No education?
Charter schools?
Until Horace Mann, the apostle of public education, made an impact in the second half of the 19th Century, all education was private If the father had the means he could tutor his sons, if he was wealthy enough he could hire a tutor.
My 9th great grandfather and name sake,was on of the original settlers in Jamestown, and his family became wealthy planters, sheriffs and members of the House of Burgess, but they bred themselves into obscurity, and eventually a younger son of 5th generation was not tutored, is father had died after he tutored his eldest son, and there was not enough of an estate to pass on to or educate his other sons, one of them died in the revolution, left a will but signed by an X.
The sons of this man and their grandsons and great grandsons, were not tutored, could not read nor write, and thus could not engage in business and were at the mercy of those that could.
Until in the latter part of the 19th Century, one state, probably others, this one Arkansas listened to Horace and adopted publicly funded education. A man was born in 1850, he had never been taught to read and write, however his son born in 1883 was, and he graduated 8th grade, he had a son that graduated HS, and he had a son that earned a Masters degree and he had a son who earned a PhD, who has a daughter that is also a scientist with a PhD.
So what is the cure or alternative for public education Karen?
I bought the audio version of your book and look forward to beginning it later today. I now have Hartmann's book, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight and Caste by Wilkerson, so it seems there aren't enough hours in the day.