Listening to liberals, you would think the most destructive phenomenon in the US is the so-called War on Women. It’s not really a war on women generally. It’s a war about who will pay for reproductive services plus the eternally tortured dispute about abortion.
Meanwhile, vastly more Americans, both male and female, are hurt by what goes on in our public schools. Many statistics, studies, commissions, and pundits have made the same point: the country is spending hundreds of billions for education but somehow children don’t end up well educated.
Many observers have gone so far as to suggest that our Education Establishment is not seriously attempting to educate children. Rather, the goal seems to be to level children, to dumb them down, as argued by Charlotte Iserbyt in her famous book “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America.”
This leveling is not an all-or-nothing project. Rather, it functions in scores of ways large and tiny. The details are easy to overlook. But the cumulative impact is like a tsunami flowing through a coastal city.
Public schools can’t seem to do a good job with literacy. They don’t seem able to teach elementary arithmetic. They don’t emphasize learning basic knowledge.
The basic sophistry seems to be bait-and-switch. The schools say, “We will educate your children.” But in reality the schools have created dozens of excuses for not doing that. All failure is someone else’s fault. (more...)
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