Government schools intentionally making children dumber?

'It's a system deliberately designed to handicap the individual'

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It’s no surprise to hear that America’s education system is in disarray, with Common Core dumbing down young students, faith absent from education and underpaid teachers increasingly unfit to serve as effective educators.  But all of that is by design, contends Alex Newman, an international journalist and co-author of “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.”

He recently appeared on the “Revealing the Truth with Rabbi Walker” Web TV show to discuss the issue.  Newman believes the government education system is not built to educate but to create obedient, unlearned drones who are subservient to authority.  “It’s really the education system that is at the foundation of what eventually emerges as culture, politics, government and all the rest of it,” Newman began. “Education is where we went wrong, so if we’re going to fix this, education is the place to be involved.”  Newman was educated at an array of top private schools but realizes his academic upbringing was irregular..........Read more

My Take - I do get tired of hearing about these "underpaid" teachers, and that being the reason for the failure of our schools.  Well, teachers were paid far less per ratio when I was going to school in the fifty's and sixty's than now, and kids came out knowing how to read, write and spell.  They were also able to add, subtract, multiply and devide. They also knew where the countries talked about daily in the news were actually located. 

So we know the pay isn't the real reason because we've been increasing teacher pay to the extent there's an awful lot of teachers making an average of almost 60 thousand a year in Ohio with totally unstainable retirement packages.  One school district in Ohio has a "average" of 80 thousand a year.   And those are the average - those who are in the system longer make a whole lot more.  

It appears the more we pay them the dumber the kids become.  Conclusion?  They deliberately not doing their jobs! The teacher's unions should be dismantled and those who still continue fail to perform should be fired. But let's start with the administration at the state level because that's where the rules are created that makes it difficult if not impossible for good teachers to do their job.