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I Illustrate The Pitfalls of American Education Using My 5 yr Old Daughter
Below are excerpts from Capital Account's interview with moi (click here for the entire, original interview) featuring my views on education, class struggle and the dumbing down of America. I used my 5 year old daughter as an example of someone who was labeled as unable to read at advanced kindergarten level, yet somehow can parse emails from PhDs, MBAs and other clients of BoomBustBlog. Even if you have seen this popular interview with Lauren Lyster already, this remix is well worth your time. The first 3 and a half minutes are quite telling. Take note of how my daughter actually tries to sound out the words she is reading versus using memorized bits and bites to form the words. In addition, take note of the zeal and pride that she has in tackling a tough problem (at least for her, and probably many kindegarteners) instead of giving up when confronted with a problem. I try my best to push creativity and knowledge of how the world works, vs memorization of propaganda and proficiency in following rules. As a matter of fact, I push all of my kids to actively seek to break the rules for their benefit and attempt to rewrite the rules to their advantage. If you don't like the way that sounds, you can assume that you and/or your children may be working for the 5 year old in this video that was labeled as unable to read by the NYC school system in September.
My two youngest children after an interview at CNBC wherein Daddy goes against the grain yet again by warning on the FIRE sector, a week before Wall Street jumps on board
My two youngest children, like my oldest (19 yrs) accompany their dad to work to see how the entrepreneur side looks. Notice, like their dad, the keep computers and tech in hand...
Watching Daddy spread his message in the CNBC studios. I regularly and happily pull my kids out of school so they can see what I do, how I do it, and how successful (or not) it may be. This is true education. My children (all three, 5, 11 & 19) are well versed in class struggle, geo-political power struggles, economics and finance. They all know what Money is, and no, they will not tell you it is to buy things!!! I would like to see an entier school filled with teachers of a mindset similar to mine, and I will have that - even if I have to start the school myself!!!!
The articles (recommeneded reading, of course) that led up to this are...
The Biggest Threat To The 2012 Economy Is??? Not What Wall Street Is Telling You...
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Dont worry. With the current state of the world, US citizenism reachs everywhere.
You guys need to look at your city's or town's public records.
In my small town suburb of NJ just 30 minutes from NYC, we have over 80 teachers making $80-$100k...
This isn't including pensions and their premium medical insurance plan that they don't pay a dime into...
What I don't understand is why the education I learned 20 years ago and is still the same cirriculum being taught is now harder for our children to learn and requires teachers to get Master's degrees? I understand if some teachers AP classes but this also includes teachers teaching electives like shop and art and in elementary and middle school grade levels.
Is it that hard for teacher's to grasp these subjects they need further education in something so elementary?!
Go start the school RM! you have the right ideas.
Homeschool man... your wife stays at home... do it while it's still legal :-)
Reggie -- I second the motion.
Please consider home schooling. It does NOT mean that your kids spend their lives at home. It means you become the general contractor for their education. You teach the bits you want to ( like you already are -- oh, let's see, perhaps, um, economics?) and you find other tutors or groups of like-minded parents to teach other classes.
My wife and I taught fewer than half of my daughter's classes -- the rest were taught by other parents in a cooperative of over 100 families. So she met plenty of people, and in a much freer environment than the state-sponsored schools.
I have no doubt that you are a very powerful example to your kids. But the state has very powerful thought-viruses that they make every effort to infect your children with.
So -- yes, start or join an alternative school. It would be incredibly great to see such a cooperative get started not for religious reasons, but for libertarian-political reasons. I see by the photograph you posted that you have 3 excellent reasons to consider this.
Government education destroys our youth by how few children can really reach their full potential. This is not an empty complaint. When children are homeschooled in a broad range of styles and curricula, children educated in the credentialed, accredited, government-approved manner average more than one whole grade level behind them. By definition homeschooling involves non-credentialed, non-accredited educators. In many cases these parents have only a high school diploma.
In some urban government school districts, it now costs in excess of $1 million to graduate a single student who is competent at their grade level in math and science. And this number does not take into account how many teens never graduate.
The education establishment fought (and still fights) homeschooling tooth and nail, almost as intently as they fight vouchers.
It is beyond time to admit the failure of this socialist experiment and to return education to full control of parents.
Yep to all that.
It is beyond time to admit the failure of this socialist experiment and to return education to full control of parents.
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do you live on Sealand by chance?
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Yeah. We get it. You hate America.
So we can all see that AnAnonymous went to the government schools and never really got over it. Come and join the rest of us at "Government Schools Anonymous" where we all talk about learning how to think for ourselves. And we all make sure that our children get education better than we had it...
where we all talk about learning how to think for ourselves.
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Sure, sure.
Producing cheap propaganda is what US citizens call thinking for themselves.
Check out: "Some Lessons from the Underground History of American Education" by John Taylor Gatto, found in "Everything You Know is Wrong", ISBN 978-1-56731-637-7, pgs 274-28
Just WHY do you "think" that Educating our Children is a job that's best left to a Govt? Guess brainwashing/propaganda is a job best left to the experts, ne? Check yer premises.
You da man Reg!
+1
Though, maybe, Reggie, you could get your 5-yr-old to proofread your stuff for you?!
Love the content, but I struggle through all the typos, spelling, formatting and grammatical faux pas!
Realize that you're definitely getting your money's worth considering how much you paid for it, or better yet you can actually pay for it (the paid content is usually proof read twice). You see, a simply solution that actually allows me to compensate my 5 year old for the labor with which you suggest I thrust upon her...
Touché.
Excellent, from both of you.
The rampant typos in the blogosphere annoy me, too, but not so much as it used to. For reasons:
-The issue pales in comparison to the newer, more urgent, actually relevant stuff that is going on
-The news and consequent analysis is coming on so fast and furious, it is unreasonable to expect those on the cutting edge to take the time to cross every t and dot every i. I'd rather just have the info and edit in my head as I read.
-It's free. No complaining.
Mtomato
"even if I have to start the school myself!!!!"
Then "Reggie Middleton High" would have more than one meaning!