Illiteracy: A Deliberate Result
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“[S]tates and school districts have begun to acknowledge that they have long failed to properly teach pupils to read. Nearly every state in the nation has passed laws on reading and literacy . . .,” The New York Times reported. What if the growing rate of illiteracy results from deliberate actions of those in power in education?
On Oct. 8, 2023, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) report issued by the U.S. Department of Education reflected the reading and math scores for students tested in the 4th and 8th grades. NAEP made public their test results in The Nation’s Report Card, revealing that 60% of students in our public and nonpublic schools read below grade level. This problem is not new, but America’s public and private school issues with literacy are not getting any better.
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The history of literacy in education reveals that the common denominator in this descent into illiteracy is that those in charge of our educational systems have turned away from God and embraced socialism. Generations of our students have continued to suffer as a result of those decisions.
To understand the deliberate promotion of illiteracy in American public schools, one must look at Paulo Freire, a Brazilian professor, educator, and devout Marxist. Freire authored two influential books: Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation, and Pedagogy of the Oppressed. The latter work landed Freire a Harvard professorship in 1969. He was nurtured at Harvard, and his work eventually became educational policy in classrooms across America. Pedagogy of the Oppressed is the third most cited book in social sciences and is used in virtually every education program in North America today.
In The Marxification of Education: Paulo Freire’s Critical Marxism and the Theft of Education, James Lindsay details the radical Marxist ideas that are being implemented in today’s classrooms. Here are a few of Freire’s foundational beliefs:
- All education must be “political.”
- “Minority” children should not be taught reading in the same way as “white” children are, because standard pedagogical methods only perpetuate a racially “oppressive” system.
- All reading instruction should be based on the social issues relevant to the political system with which the learner is familiar.
- Reading instruction should provoke student learners to political action.
- The responsibility of a teacher is to teach “political literacy.”
- The teacher, too, must be a learner.
- Students must die to the existing order and be “reborn” or “resurrected” as Marxist-socialist people.
- It is not for those in positions of power or privilege to determine what it means to be “educated” and thereby to reproduce their own social construct.
- Everyone, even an illiterate person, is a “knower,” able to transform reality according to his or her own vision of political realities.
As today’s schools focus increasingly on such “teaching” practices as these, they abandon the true teaching of literacy and thus lose ground on academics. When that happens, schools attempt to hide their failures from the taxpayers. A prime example of this is the Oregon State Board of Education ruling that all graduating students are exempt from proficiency requirements in math, reading, and writing skills — and this is to be in place until 2029.
For years, public schools have published their performance record in local newspapers or on websites, displaying public accountability for the billions of dollars in tax support they receive. But public schools are increasingly choosing to withdraw from rendering any account whatsoever.
Chicago has the nation’s third-largest school district — and it also has a dismal history of failing schools. The school board recently voted not to make public the academic ratings of its schools based on students’ test results. Instead, the board will now give schools a “social score” and a related “grade” based on the funding each school receives, and not based on actual academic performance.
When Jonathan Small, president of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA), discovered that 45% of Oklahoma 4th-graders tested a minimum of one year below grade level in reading, he wrote in an OCPA article: … state reports show that from 2012 to 2021, Oklahoma schools’ combined total funding for that decade was more than $70.68 billion. (Indeed, increased education spending is a century-long trend.) How is that not enough to teach children to read?
Indeed, the late John Taylor Gatto, a teacher and the author of The Underground History of American Education and of Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, knew lack of funding, overwhelmed teachers, discipline problems are not the reasons for America’s failing schools. The failure is in the system itself, he said, built as it is on socialism and on exalting government above parental authority — it is this that has led to our educational breakdown.
In Dumbing Us Down, Gatto wrote: “No large-scale reform is ever going to work to repair our damaged children and our damaged society until we force open the idea of ‘school’ to include family as the main engine of education.”
Editor’s note: As intercessors, we must come alongside the nation’s children. They need our prayers! Let’s ask the Lord how He wants us to pray for them and the schools they attend.
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Nancy Huff is an educator with a mission to equip believers to pray strategically for the cultural mountain of education. She is the author of Taking the Mountain of Education: A Strategic Prayer Guide to Transform American Schools; Safety Zone: Scriptural Prayers to Revolutionize Your School; and Decrees for Your School. She leads groups for prayer at key educational locations across the U.S. Find out more by visiting TakingTheMountainOfEducation.com. Photo Credit: esthermoreno/Canva Pro.
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Our school system in Central Jersey was rated as average or slightly above when we moved here ten yrs ago. It has gotten significantly worse, despite the fact that they have a huge budget. They give out A’s like participation trophies, and have teachers, even at the high school level who give out minimal home work that is easy to complete. They want the kids to like them. They even give the kids valuable class time to do homework. They spend time teaching and talking about gender issues, while most of the kids in the school are not at grade level in most subjects. And again, this is one of NJ’s average schools. There are well over 100 high schools that are significantly worse than ours is. We let the liberal left take over most of our educational system, and this is the result. The real scary thing about this? The left will never give up their indoctrination based schools, and things are only going to get worse. If we cannot right this ship before much more time goes by, our country will be populated by many more entitled brats who do not care to produce living off the minority that does still produce.
The liberals in our gov’t facilitate this by enacting more and more gov’t handout programs, like minimum income, etc. This Nation’s days will be numbered at that point.
My one prayer is that all Christian parents will take their children out of public school and homeschool them. Anyone who knows their history knows that the schools are actually succeeding at what Mann, Owens and their followers wanted them to do. Pray for Homeschooling to spread, for schools with a true Biblical worldview to be set up and public schools to close down. That is worth praying for.
Dear Lord, I pray that school choice and the voucher system would be implemented nation-wide, and that schools that teach the Christian, Biblical worldview would be able to open their door to more and more children every year. I pray You would supply them richly with scholarship funds for those who cannot pay. Amen.
Lord, please help our nation get back on track. Children who cannot read mean that genearations of adults will not be able to read your word. It is a remarkable part of American history. that your word was used to teach with verses about Christian values. Please point our educators to history and convict them to change the path of reading and with your help, every child in America should be able to read.. In Jesus name we pray, AMEN
Must eradicate all the “political correct” and “woke” garbage from public schools before they get better. The schools must concentrate on reading, writing (correctly), math including applications, the sciences ONLY. Home schooling (with tax deduction) is called for when public schools teach ANY “politically correct” or “woke” garbage.
Father God, we are dooming our children by not teaching them to read! May parents wake up to this threat and help our children to read. Thank you for bringing this sad fact to front and center. Change our schools; may they become bastions of learning instead of bastions of socialism!
The main problem with how public schools teach reading is the main emphasis they put on the “look see” method and just about no phonetics teaching. I did not want to home school my daughter who was falling way behind in first grade, but I knew I had to if she was going to learn how to read.
Long story short, took her out of public school, homeschooled her with intensive phonics teaching, and she became an excellent reader and student.
Father God, education is equipping people of any age the information needed to understand and resolve problems, issues, and occurrences before them in life. That they can calculate, evaluate, and reason with clarity of thought. That they may learn the wisdom of the ages before them, an understand the folly’s and errors of the past.
Raise a cry from this land for true education useful knowledge and skills for accurate thinking. Bring your divine justice upon those who have corrupted the system of education and stollen the quality of life itself fromour children. Amen and Amen.
I pray for all of our children to have a Damascus Road experience like the Apostle Paul no matter what school they are in or went to. The devil afflicts kids that have been homeschooled and in church their entire lives! We must trust the LORD’S Word that says if we train them up in the way they should go, when they are old they won’t depart from it! Pray for teachers, administrators, parents also! The evil is in the atmosphere all around us and we must put the light of CHRIST out there to light up the world! Help us FATHER GOD in JESUS NAME! Amen!
And supported by the Democrat party since its inception in 1829.
I am very concerned about literacy in our schools!!!
God gave parents the ultimate responsibility for teaching their children. Their education was to be centered in and around God’s word. Parents, not the public school system will be held accountable before God for failing their children in this area. Parents need to take their children out of public schools that advocate and teach Godless curriculum. Home schooling may not be easy but in this day and age it’s a necessity if we don’t want our children indoctrinated into the develish thought control systems being propagated in our public school systems. Nor should we be paying tuition for young people to attend colleges and universities that belittle their belief in God, teach Marxist theology and a socialist agenda and are openly anti- semitic. Thank God for those parents who are standing up and speaking up and saying we will have no more of this. Keep up the good God work and know that He is with you.
Right on!! We need NEW, we NEED God’s plans for EVERYTHING!!!
NEA: Trojan Horse in American Education, by Blumenfeld, is an excellent book that addresses this intentional illiteracy at its historic roots. The text is, in essence, a very well-documented historical explanation of the problem.
., and as has been noted previously as well.. The deconstruction of our education system did not just happen recently or by accident,- the deconstruction of America that goes hand in hand with it.. started about 150 years ago.. communism socialism and Marxism have been creeping into our society during that whole time and the resultant demoralization of children and depression of their young minds and ruination of our school system was planned-, sometimes with a shoot from the hip type perspective- and also planned methodically as well along the way. We should not be surprised at what is happening. We should be disgusted and dismayed-,but not surprised. Anytime God is Forsaken and Christ is removed from a God-fearing and bible-based Society-, a spiritual vacuum is what is left in that void..and evil rushes in immediately and has been for quite some time. We are seeing the fruit of that evil now
I think I have shared this before but I will share it again.. as this may only be the second time. A church friend from the ’90s had a son during that decade, that grew up to later attend Life Bible College in Southern California. The young man then encountered the curriculum known as” deconstruction” where everything that has been built from our foundations is being destroyed. The Young man then disavowed and abandoned all of his previously learned biblical foundations, and conservative political thinking that his father had so painstakingly instilled in him. It should be noted as well in my estimation, that as I observed my church friend as I described him, even being the father of the young man.. he seemed to, on my reencountering him in recent months.. have been completely disheartened, not only about his former. own conservative thinking and strident Christianity- but also was apparently very disappointed about what had happened to his son. Until we return to giving a child a basic education with skills that edify the spirit and mind -,and build up the child’s ability to become an adult and function properly in math languages and science, and also a realistic education in not only American history but world history-, the continuation of the current debacle of the dumbing down of America will continue
In 2007 Dr Del Tackett hosted a series that his group produced titled-, approximately, the Seven Pillars of culture in the Truth Project.. that taught our Nation’s founding in history. As has been stated elsewhere many times the frontier School room taught children out of the Bible and also upheld the value of knowing the Lord and literacy supernaturally flowed out of that, as well being taught. If and when school curriculum is ever used again to teach math languages and science.. and students are held accountable for what they learn in spite of whether or not it hurts their feelings.. then education will be restored
Amen to praying for a revival of teaching reading so our students will be able to question evaluate and determine what is best . May our God direct this revival soon.
This is by design – an uneducated populace is much easier to manipulate and control than those who can read and think for themselves. Interestingly, when education became accessible to the masses, no longer just the upper class or just men, one reason for teaching reading was so that people could read the Bible for themselves and not have to depend upon a priest to tell them what God says. Education in the past was the stepping stone to a better life – but today’s indoctrination void of an education leaves its students without any basic skills, unprepared to be productive participants in today’s world. Education should be teaching students “how” to think critically, ask questions and evaluate information. Instead they are telling students “what” to think and not to ask questions. Education is about learning to ask the questions (curiosity, creativity, inventiveness) not about parroting preapproved answers that only signify compliance not any level of competence or understanding. Individuals must be able to read for themselves in order to be free and have any independence. Then they can read the TRUTH (God’s Word) and the truth will set them and us all free. (much more to say but all for now) http://www.mtothe5th.wordpress.com
Thanks for this excellent article, Nancy!
Praying for revival in our school systems!!!
When insanity rules (and it is more then evident that it does) and the pendulum has swung all the way to the left (which it has), we can pray that with God’s help and our cooperation (i.e. repentants and obedience) it will swing all the way back to the right where sanity returns. That is my prayer.
Thank you Sonny for your comment. I believe spelling is VERY IMPORTANT too because it can totally change the meaning of what is trying to “say” such as REPENTANTS instead of REPENTANCE.
SO SORRY, I left out the word one @ what one is trying to “say” M
Father God, in Jesus Name, we lift up our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren to You to be afforded the same opportunities we were given to be able to read, write and calculate at the highest level that we may teach others to do likewise. Thank You for Your Hand upon their lives and that no weapon that comes against them IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM will prosper IN JESUS NAME! AMEN!
The whole education system needs to be changed! Man, and yes, the church needs to STOP worshipping knowledge, education, and degrees and worship only God! If we focused on God first and fully then the spiritual and soul health of a person and the family, it would be easier to learn what we actually need to learn which is based on each person’s calling. It’s not one size fits all. This cookie cutter system we have stinks to high Heaven and it did NOT come from God. Children MUST be protected and trained up in the Lord, they need a healthy soul and a free mind in Jesus so they can even focus to learn and FULFILL their God-given purpose! Reading, writing, and basic math are the mains. Why do we spend equal time on all subjects when you don’t even use most of what is taught in school and then kids end up with no healthy childhood, mentally and emotionally a mess, not prepared for the world they live in, and overwhelmed by a system set up to overwhelm them? This has to stop! People need to reassess why we even do the things we do and ask, should we?! Is there a BETTER way, how about God’s way to educate and raise our kids??!! Lord of Heaven and earth, have mercy on us and HELP us live as YOU say and tear down all things that stand in our way! Teach us HOW to raise our kids PROPERLY and teach them spiritually and naturally Your way! Save the kids and the generations to come. Dear God, DO IT NOW, HELP NOW in Jesus name! Amen!!
Father, we pray for a total restoration of our education systems. Reveal, restore and invade them with your wisdom and power. ,
I have been saying for a long time that the public educational system is deliberately dumbing down the population, because ignorant people are easily controlled.
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The idea SHOULD BE that this is an amazing world and thus it behooves all of us to find out all we can about it. This includes language – not only regarding reading, but also speaking and spelling and writing.
I once worked as a Teacher’s Aide, and my responsibility was to teach a nine year old boy how to read. First I had to teach him respect for adults. Then and only then was I able to teach him to read. On the final day of the school year, he stood in front of the class and read a story to them. His grandmother at the rear of the class was in tears. Her little “prince” could read! Would encourage people to offer their services to their local schools and help the students, even one student, to be able to read. You will change their life and likely your own life, too!
Thank you for an informative article
I didn’t know my 18 yr old grandchild had never learned cursive.
Can the teachers read?
I keep hearing, :people don’t want to work. Can people even read the application as well as having first language use. Even a janitor needs sense about products used.
I recently read of a man who died because he couldn’t read the instructions on his medication
We now find that many of the “advocates” on college campuses are paid mercenaries who travel the country and now we understand even more how the illiterate are manipulated.
. . . That would especially be those gainfully employed essential workers for example (even) our janitors without whom we would be suffering from all diseases and be constantly knee high in others trash.
Why is it such a surprise that the deliberate removal of God from being the center of our lives, not only in education, would lead to this deliberate state of illiteracy? This has always been a part of the determination of satan to spread his kingdom. He knows his lease on this earth is very short, so he’s working overtime and more now
Heavenly Father, you are a good God and your will is to bless us with every good thing. May you continue to pour out your Holy Spirit on our land and your people. Pour out your Holy Spirit on our teachers, especially those who love you. Give them courage, grace and inspiration to see all your children the way that you do. May your supernatural presence fill these classrooms in our towns and communities across our nation to bring peace and healing, hope and resilience. Forgive our indifference and hopelessness and instead give us courage marked by love. Help us all with creative ways to reach people for you. We are all made in your image and we can have a purpose right where we are. We love you and ask all of these things in Jesus’ name who is forever exalted. Amen.
Prayer is the only thing that will get us out of this. We need to show our God that we are still a nation of believers- the silent majority.
Shame on the educational system for causing the dumbing down of America. This has been going on for decades. It’s about time for more people to be involved in their children’s education and voice their dissent at school board meetings. Socialism has rapidly taken over and this is an ideology that has never worked anywhere in the world.
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Not to educate our youth is to guarantee the failure of the nation. What we have enjoyed as a nation, peace, economics and freedom will soon be gone. I’m glad that I am in my late seventies. God willing, I will not see my beloved U.S.A. descend into a third world collapse. May God have mercy…
Father in heaven and giver of every good gift, thank you for your love and goodness to every human child, for the abilities you give us to think and wonder, to use our fingers in creative ways and even to smile. As your word says “In Him, we live and move and have our being.” Lord, you taught us to come to you as our perfect Father and One who gives good gifts. Father, our lives are enriched by the things we read and the people we meet. Father, I pray Thee to move in the hearts of educators to SEE the failures of the past and LEARN from them, and to want to effect positive change for our children. Help them to recognize the Book of antiquity that is long known to produce virtue and character – the Bible. And Father, put it in the hearts of children to love your Word, to use their imagination to recreate the amazing stories, and to desire to do exploits in our world for you! Amen
I was an SLP in public education, also certified as a reading specialist and dyslexia specialist. Along with many other educators, we were devoted to teaching reading and put in long hours after the school day ended. A public educator can stand on Biblical principles and weave them into every minute of every day. The greatest impact that we can have on our children is to shine a light where there is darkness. Let our prayer be that more and more Christians strive to become educators in the public school system. Greater is He in us than the one in the world.
Father, please help struggling children to get the help and practitioners they need to improve their reading skill. Put it in the hearts of those around them to give the time necessary to listen and teach the phonics keys that they missed. Bless the children with a desire to keep trying!
This has been the design of education since 1962 when prayer and the Bible was banned. Raising a generation of ignorance is the way Communist Bullies have planned for two generations and will fulfill their wishes in the next elections.
Over 30 years ago Cal Thomas, a well known commentator, spoke at an event and posed the question, “Why are we sending our children to be educated in the enemy’s camp?” If the Church, Christian parents and parents who believe that the ability to read, write and understand basic math was the foundation to understand all other topics had answered that question correctly 30 years ago, we might be in a different place today. And even 30 years ago we were late to the issue.
Churches in every community need to rally together and support the building of private schools that have affordable tuition costs and simultaneously continue to build robust home schooling communities. We serve Almighty God, Who is limitless and can give the financial means to do what is needed. May the Church and parents throughout America rise up, come together and use the skills and gifts God has given them to create an educational system that is based on godly and educationally sound values to save generations of children from demonic indoctrination.
Our daughter who became a teacher of the special needs: left the education system when she noticed the changes in curriculum during our oldest grandchild: so our son in-law and she determined to homeschool all their children: one book the children read is the Bible: they said as a Christian family: that book is number 1 : their 2 oldest graduated with aa degree: 3rd one graduates highschool with a 1yr of college education: then their 3 little ones are ahead of the age limit of secular school: now she’s taken under her wing her granddaughter that the secular school was sending her to 7 grade with a 5th grade education: if the Bible was good for Abraham Lincoln’s education: why not for our children: then I found out a grand daughter of ours from a son of ours : the school she’s going to is graduating her with a certification early no high school diploma: even though she’s not at the level she would need to have a job with a good income nor to be able to advance to college. Let’s pray that parents take time to reevaluate the education of their children and begin a change to our nation: as a demigod nation,to a GOD almighty fearing nation. It starts with the children: bring them to JESUS to be blessed.
I have another thought to add. As a reading teacher for upper elementary, a big concern is home culture. Parents who read to their children and create a culture of reading at home are more likely to have children who read at or above grade level. In many homes however, gaming and screens have become baby sitters, and unless time limits are enforced, many such children struggle academically with varied issues including reading fluency and comprehension.
Teaching these days is not for the faint hearted, and neither is parenting. Many stressors pull at those responsible for raising, training, protecting, and teaching our precious young ones. Our babies need all of us to do our part.
I have home schooled our 5 children from pre-k to college and am currently doing my first year of reading tutoring at our local elementary school. Every day, my heart aches for these 6th graders who have no idea how to spell, who don’t know what a consonant or vowel is, and who struggle to decode and read unfamiliar words. My prayer is always, “Lord, show me how to make a difference in their lives. Show me where to start.” It is overwhelming because they are so far behind and I have only one hour per week with these students. Father, turn the hearts of the fathers to their children and lead them to train up their children in the way they should go.
Betsy, thank you for your service! May you experience success, as the students see your love and concern and respond with a strong desire to learn.
Lord Jesus, please, intervene in the affairs of man to correct this terrible problem. Thank You in advance, Lord.
Lord, we repent for allowing our responsibility to spiritually guard our education systems. It began at home, we are to teach our children to know the Lord and too often we have failed. Forgive our neglect. Stir our hearts to press in to You for wisdom to reach out to our children in prayer support. Your Word says we have authority in Christ Jesus to bind and to open. We declare that the evil system that has captured our schools and our children be silenced and bound. We declare that eyes, ears, hearts and spirits will be opened to You. Fill the schools with Your Word. Turn hearts to you. Move is each of us to show our children the Love of the Heavenly Father and Son. Amen
The book : Abolition of Man by CS Lewis must be read
I live in Wake/”Woke” County NC. The multifaceted cabal called “Woke” manifests here in the “MVP” math program. The Marxist Woke crowd is more than just Disney, Riley Gaines, and CRT. They are out to destroy America and most people don’t have a clue of their evil web of influence. They believe what the liberal press puts out.
One of the less-known targets are the Math programs in our elementary and high schools.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-s-math-misadventure-is-about-to-go-national/ar-AA1hzDtw#image=1
Please read this article and the comments following it:
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/10/18/opinion-the-math-crisis-at-berkeley-high-supporting-the-class-of-2019-and-beyond
They are out with a vengeance and come after anyone who dares question them. Here in Wake County North Carolina they went after a parent who dared to question the results of a survey about MVP that the school board had sponsored:
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/parent-who-criticized-his-sons-math-program-is-sued-by-curriculum-company/2019/09
I lost track of this when my grandson graduated High School in 2021, but I think it was resolved when the parent sued by MVP dropped his countersuit and the school district went ahead and implemented pieces of the plan. At one point the parent had $20,000 in legal fees racked up against him…
Ron DeSantis’ efforts in Florida are a model for the Nation:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2023/01/15/what-hillsdale-college-florida-gov-desantis-wants-replicate/11048401002/
Father God, I pray that those in charge of this atrocity are brought to task. Being the overseer of our children’s future is a calling, not a job. And their failure has generational and universal effects. Help them to see the magnitude of that task and to step aside for those you would put I the positions. Give parents the desire to help and encourage their children to achieve and learn the joy of learning. Show them good favorites, wholesome stories and Your exciting Word. In Your Literate Name
If I were Satan I would do all in my power to get a stranglehold on higher education because that’s where the next leaders will be made. And that’s just what he’s done. Any teacher under age 40, even those in small rural towns have been through four or five years of brain washing in our universities and colleges. This will be a very difficult thing to turn around. Therefore, the only answer is homeschooling. Otherwise, you risk throwing your children to the wolves.
I fear there will be a time when homeschooling will not be allowed, and then we are in a world of hurt. But for right now, we are blessed with this freedom. As a 25-year homeschooling veteran, I can assure you: it’s not as hard as you think it might be to homeschool – and it’s a great chance to review gaps in your own schooling. You can group together with others and make it happen. Look for a way and God will open doors.
It is a disgrace that our children and grandchildren are no longer taught even the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic. I pray that EVERY parent/grandparent open their eyes of understanding and take the necessary steps to educate them ourselves in whatever manner we can. Lord, cover our children/grandchildren with the blood of your precious son, Jesus and give us the wisdom and courage to lead and teach them as You would have them taught. Thank you now, Father, for your grace and mercy. In Jesus’name we pray. AMEN!
I am praying for speaker Mike Johnson, LORDJESUS bless him with full wisdom for Mike Johnson duty.
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I am not surprised by this article. I tutor students, and increasingly see them ignorant of basic academics and familiar with all sorts of new, “modern” techniques for learning that actually teach little. I have had students object to learning because “the school does not say we have to know that” (especially after the advent of computers in school). Recently, the political indoctrination has not been hidden, and parents have been discouraged or banned from knowing what goes on in schools. For me, the answer is, people, homeschool. Form pods so that one parent can be available each school day and no one has to completely go without income. Hire “helpers” who in your opinion are qualified to teach as you think children should learn. (Your district may forbid you to hire teachers for homeschooling.)
I know I can teach kids to read. There are many others like me. Computers can be great sources of information, but books are not enemies. Creativity is not found from a Google search, and using computers is one way of being monitored on what you are teaching. Homeschooling pods also provide socialization. I am doubtful that we are going to be able to struggle and make public education fit the standards it once had (read the Declaration of Independence. The writing is beautiful. Kids now are not able to write even a fraction as well as those educated in those times.) and that we would like our kids educated to. With homeschooling, we can do it; we can act.
Wonderful comment! Your right on with your solutions!