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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Education is run by progressive liberals who don't understand the consequences of their soft teaching.

We need to be focused on educating our kids with math and reading. And discipline, consequences. For all kids. We are too focused on feelings, making kids feel good.

As the saying goes, the worst preparation of adulthood is a stress free childhood. [/quote]

How can we get back to actually educating our children as a society? I don’t mean a return to rapping kids with rulers, just telling kids they are WRONG when they say 2+2 =5 or spell “said” as “sed.” Right now they are complimented on their thinking and creativity and asked how they got there and to please show everyone else how they did it. No! Don’t teach 20 kids the wrong way! Tell the 1 kid that he is wrong and here is the correct answer. [/quote]

If you volunteered in an actual classroom, you would see that teachers do that. But you want to invent a world in which schools somehow don't teach kids, when in reality, they very much do.

It's clear you have an agenda and are not basing your rants in reality.

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Former teacher here. No, it really has become about feelings. And a lot of time is spent dealing with disruptive kids. Actually teaching is secondary. [/quote]

+1. Because we aren't allowed to punish your kids any more. We can't make them go sit in the hallway for talking during the lesson repeatedly. We can't say no to the kids who use "the bathroom" as a work avoidance technique. We can't take away recess if they pi$$ away all the time they were supposed to be doing classwork. We don't grade homework any more. We have to give fluffy project grades in addition to tests for the kids who couldn't pass a test if their life depended on it. No one is held back or forced to repeat a grade for complete non-mastery of any of the material. And the lazy kids know it. [/quote]

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