The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America A Chronological Paper Tra torrent

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America-A Chronological Paper Trail
Publisher: Conscience Press; 1st edition (September 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0966707109
ISBN-13: 978-0966707106

EXERT FROM PREFACE- That was just the beginning. There was more to come: the new social studies textbook
World of Mankind. Published by Follett, this book instructed the teacher how to instill
humanistic (no right/no wrong) values in the K–3 students. At the text’s suggestion the
teacher was encouraged to take little tots for walks in town during which he would point
out big and small houses, asking the little tots who they thought lived in the houses: Poor
or Rich? “What do you think they eat in the big house? ...in the little house?” When I
complained about this non-educational activity at a school board meeting I was dismissed
as a censor and the press did its usual hatchet job on me as a misguided parent. A friend of
mine—a very bright gal who had also lived abroad for years—told me that she had overheard
discussion of me at the local co-op. The word was out in town that I was a “kook.” That was
not a “positive response/reward” for my taking what I believed to be a principled position.
Since I had not been “trained,” I was just mad!
Next stop on the road to becoming a “resister” was to become a member of the school
philosophy committee. Our Harvard-educated, professional change agent superintendent gave
all of the committee members a copy of “The Philosophy of Education” (1975 version) from
the Montgomery County schools in Maryland, hoping to influence whatever recommendations
we would make.