Dumbing Down America, Creating An Entire Generation Of Good Comrades. Posted by John Wiseman on December 3, 2013 at 3:47pm View Blog All links point to Twitchy, a wonderful Twitter aggregation site implemented by Michelle Malkin. During that Administration that ran things in our country from 1977 until January 20, 1981, we got as gifts from the store of bad Marxist applications, the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. Two behemoth top down government bureaucracies designed to alleviate some perceived pain, which in fact were either caused by previous government intrusions or fabricated whole sale from nothing. The Department of Energy was created supposedly to insure that we would never again be held hostage as a nation to the whims of Mid Eastern Despots, using their oil to inflict their will upon our national politics. The idea was that only through the aid of a government agency, would sufficient domestic energy production become possible. The result of course has been the opposite. The Department of Energy has acted as a block to domestic sources of energy, and the recent energy surge gleaned from hydraulic fracturing has been in spite of government interference, and not a result of any aid from the Department of Energy. In fact, the boom has been almost entirely fueled by privately owned land, leased over government objection to private companies who have bypassed the federal behemoth at every turn. The other brand new spiffy bureaucracy given to us by Jimmy Carter of course was the Department of Education, the main topic of todays post. The original purpose of the Department of Education was to improve the quality of education for Americas Children, who at the time, were placing second or third among all industrialized nations on a consistent basis. Currently, after three decades of our federal governments intrusion into our schools, our children are not even cracking the top 25 on a consistent basis. This is hardly a picture of success, at least in terms of the actual mandate. It does however manage to get even worse than that. When the sounds start emanating to end this drain of our national resources, the political left begins whining immediately that this would be the end to Head Start. The problem is of course, emotional blackmail aside, every study of Head Start shows that children who graduate from that vaunted program have actually been harmed by the experience, and are less ready to enter a full day of school and learn than if they would have just merely skipped the program entirely. Thanks to the Department of Education, our children are less qualified than most in the industrial world to perform basic math, but somehow feel better about their skills than those who outperform them. This is because self esteem is actually something that has been taught in place of math, or at least shares time. Rather than teaching basic economics and an accurate history regimen, duty to the state has been coupled with alternate history lessons showing the glories of Socialism and why those governments were actually better for their citizenry than systems that allowed for maximal freedom. George W. Bush was not the worst President in our national history, and he got a lot of things right. I would even defend him on most issues, but one place where he really blew it, and I mean in spectacular fashion, was the No-Child-Left-Behind-Act. Not specifically the implementation of the act under President Bush, but because of the chicanery that the ambiguous act allowed to happen under the stewardship of his replacement. (There are several instances of this to be sure, with our current NSA spying scandal being one such example, Fast and Furious another, but discussions of those failures would be beyond my intended scope for this discussion.) No Child Left Behind was the primer for Race To The Top, which is where Common Core was born. Common Core, for the uninitiated, is the federal governments new idea to teach all of the children in our nation the same curricula, while eliminating local control of the parents whos children are being impacted by those decisions as to what will and will not be taught in school. In short, those of you with children no longer know whats best for your kids, big brother does, and hes fully intending on inflicting his vision for their upbringing on you. So, exactly what will your kids be learning through common core, and how will they be taught this? Im glad youve asked, the answer can be found by clicking here. Besides the fact that the assignments themselves had glaring errors in math, spelling, and grammar, there is this little gem: View image on Twitter
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