Educational Hijacking
By Ari Kaufman (10/18/06)
Researchers at the University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy recently asked 14,000 randomly selected college freshmen and seniors multiple-choice questions about America’s history, government, foreign relations and economy. Their survey found that many of our best-known colleges are failing their students. On average, seniors scored just 1.5 percent better than freshmen did. And had the survey been graded as a test, seniors would have failed; they averaged 53.2 percent.
Their study found that seniors often know less than freshmen about America’s history, government, foreign affairs and economy. "Many students are actually regressing while on campus."
A friend of mine, now a senior Economics major at a respectable four year college in upstate New York, recently said to me, "Man, my roommate is very political. You'd hate him. He's really into socialism, whatever the heck that is."
How many 22 year olds didn't know what socialism was 30 years ago? While brainwashing our youths, academics, from K-college, are purposely ommitting American history and replacing it with their own, often, as another friend noted, by "bashing Capitalism at the onset of each class." In K-12, it's softer, but still as macabre.
Test prep and social studies are often interrupted for "multi cultural week" celebrating "diverrrrsity." Or, as I was told by a teacher in South Central Los Angeles the other day, "feeling good about all ethnicities because the world is such a bad place."
That's what 5-11 year olds hear there each day from a principal with the name "Precious."
What a travesty.
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