Educating Ourselves

"Russell Hobby, of the National Association of Head Teachers, confirmed some schools were adopting best-friend bans."

By the same logic, romantic relationships will be banned, on the pretext that feelings will be hurt if they don’t work out.... A slave’s only meaningful relationship should be with his master: Big Government.

Baby boomers changed politics, Gen X changed family, Gen Y changed work, and Gen Z will change education. Here’s how the education of Gen Z will affect us at work.
1. A huge wave of homeschooling will create a more self-directed workforce....
2. Homeschooling as kids will become unschooling as adults....
3. The college degree will return to its bourgeois roots; entrepreneurship will rule....
[h/t Cuz BD]

we're on more equal footing than we may think when it comes to how our brains learn. And it's a mistake to assume students will respond and remember information better depending on how it's presented.

Below I've highlighted seven key questions that should be asked of our education system. Interestingly, all of the problems they touch on have one common culprit: mass standardization. While left-liberals love to espouse the virtues of diversity, their actions do not follow their words. Real diversity is achieved by respecting the liberties of individuals, not by forcing conformity on them. Real educational diversity requires the freedom to define and pursue education according to one's values, interests, and aptitude. Education will be revolutionized once these liberties are afforded. [h/t to Cuz BD]

"It's a real catch-22 at the moment: if you decide to go to university and don't work, you leave with qualifications but no work experience and lots of debt. If you opt out of university and concentrate on work, you get plenty of work experience but no qualifications...." "Everything is done online and if I want to do three lectures in a day, I can. I set my own timetable, that's one of the good things about long distance learning."

My name is Angela. I am 28 years old, an Army wife, the mother of a darling little boy, and a recovering Useful Idiot for the Left. ... I went about my life, comfortable in my second- and third-hand assumptions; smug in my supposed intellectual superiority. And then something happened that I did not expect. ...

Illinois will assess only reading and arithmetic now that high school juniors will no longer be tested on their writing skills during standardized exams every spring. [Soon, even reading and math will be gone, and only whether kids feel good about themselves will be tested.]

The California Federation of Teachers produced the perfect solution with "Trouble in the Hen House: A Puppet Show." To spare you the unpleasantness of reading this bilge, here's the basic plot: a bunch of hens feel "oppressed" by the farmer, so they band together and create Hens United. The angry unionized chickens are too powerful a force for the farmer to handle, so he capitulates to the hens' demands.

In the 1960s, America's education schools began conditioning teachers to peddle impossible social and economic theories to captive human sponges in K-12 classrooms. Since then, teachers taken in by progressive indoctrination have been planting fallacies in students' minds using a pernicious device: the "deconstruction" of reality.

for Dale and Tara Cameron and their six children, what they expected to be a warm welcome at nearby Del Crest Middle School instead turned dark and ugly as the Camerons were initially greeted with a firm "no" from the school's assistant principal Sheila Wilson. It was only after the entire Cameron family appeared at the door — storm clouds growing darker behind them — that Wilson "reluctantly" let the Camerons into the school cafeteria where Wilson's family and pets were safe and out of the approaching storms. ...

A 12-year-old Dallas student was bound to a chair with duct tape and beaten by four classmates as a substitute teacher stood and ignored the attack

Some students say Principal Kenney has been hypnotizing students for a couple of years, either in a classroom group setting or individually one-on-one. But school district officials say, while they were aware of Kenney's technique, his permission had limited use." "He was authorized to demonstrate in psychology class with parent permission," says Leatherman. Kenney reportedly had permission from Wesley's parents to use hypnosis on their son. "It's ridiculous to hold him responsible, to say because that child was hypnotized [and] he killed himself, that's just wrong," says parent Vincent Giacinto.

An Ohio woman says a charter school is punishing her daughter for not immediately reporting that she saw two classmates having sex on a school bus and for changing her seat during the bus trip.... told her Friday that her daughter cannot attend the eighth-grade prom or picnic. The mother thinks that's unfair.... the two other students were suspended....

The family of Frankie Girard is claiming that their son's civil rights were violated after a teacher allegedly told him that hanging his picture of the American flag would offend another student. ... [Superintendent Dr. Paul Burnim said] nobody ever told Franklin the drawing was offensive, and said the only reason it wasn't hung was because Franklin was supposed to be doing other work; not drawing a picture. ... [Hmmmm]