DEI Policies Are Making American Students Dumber
“They’re spending hours and hours learning about grievances, talking about ‘big feelings,’ being told that they’re victims because of the color of their skin — that’s time that they can’t get back”
The problem with these policies is that they take time away from important subjects, like math and reading comprehension.
The Daily Wire reports:
Inside America’s Collapsing Public Schools: How A Relentless DEI Campaign Is Making Kids Dumber
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores show that American students recently earned their lowest marks in decades in reading and math. Despite the precipitous decline in academic performance, donor organizations are still pouring millions into pushing ethnic studies programs and woke teacher trainings.
Nicole Nealy, the president of watchdog group Parents Defending Education, spoke to Daily Wire podcast Morning Wire this week about the left-wing effort to effectively indoctrinate students and neglect academics.
Recent NAEP scores, according to Nealy, showed the lowest reading marks in the test’s history for eighth graders.
“These scores are really showing and highlighting that our children are not performing well,” she said. “They’re not thriving; they don’t have the skills to succeed in a global economy.”
Parents are sending their kids to school for seven or eight hours a day and rightly expect them to master the basics, like reading, writing, mathematics, and science, Nealy explained.
But that’s not what’s happening.
“They’re spending hours and hours learning about grievances, talking about ‘big feelings,’ being told that they’re victims because of the color of their skin — that’s time that they can’t get back,” she said. “It’s absolutely astonishing that this is not considered like a flashing red light for everybody.”
“You look at the amount of money that has been poured into the U.S. education system since the founding of the Department of Education in 1980 — it’s approximately $3 trillion that has been siphoned out of state and local taxes. And the price per pupil that public schools are spending on students is through the roof, yet our achievement keeps falling off a cliff,” Nealy said. “Clearly, there is a failure of the system, and there’s a real need to reimagine what and how our education is delivered to our youngest.
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The intent is to make people dumb, drugged, and dependent.
There’s an old saying — those who take the king’s coin must dance to the king’s tune.
Except the rise of public service unions has changed it into: those who take the king’s coin must dance to the tune of one of the king’s evil ministers.
Unlike propaganda, general education is NOT a natural function of government. There is no way to prevent government from conflating the two.
If we gave our children no information at all, it would still be preferable to the disinformation they are being fed now. We could not educate children worse than the government is doing today.
Defund government education and privatize it completely.
It’s not that they are becoming dumber. It’s that they are less accomplished more ignorant and more programmed than previous generations.
DEI is a two-tined fork. In the K-12 range, it makes students dumber. In the higher education range, it selects students FROM the dumber.