As if there was a mystery as to why it seems the nation is done sliding, and is now in absolute freefall toward the depths of stupidity, even the most optimistic among us are now absolutetly forced to admit that something is rotten in the state of this country’s educational system:

And then you Google “Everyday Math” and discover that countless moms and dads just like you — and a few brave teachers with their heads screwed on straight — have had similarly horrifying experiences. Like the Illinois mom who found these “math” problems in the fifth-grade “Everyday Math” textbook:

A. If math were a color, it would be –, because –.

B. If it were a food, it would be –, because –.

C. If it were weather, it would be –, because –.

And then you realize your child has become a victim of “Fuzzy Math,” the “New New Math,” the dumbed-down, politically correct, euphemism-filled edu-folly corrupting both public and private schools nationwide.

Victim is the correct term, and the criminals are the supposed “teaching professionals” that are forcing a lesson plan of failure and ignorance on generations of American children who could have accomplished so much before being intentionally crippled by a system designed to produce obedient drones rather than responsible and productive citizens:

The first lesson I teach is: “Stay in the class where you belong.” I don’t know who decides that my kids belong there but that’s not my business. The children are numbered so that if any get away they can be returned to the right class. Over the years the variety of ways children are numbered has increased dramatically, until it is hard to see the human being under the burden of the numbers each carries. Numbering children is a big and very profitable business, though what the business is designed to accomplish is elusive.

In any case, again, that’s not my business. My job is to make the kids like it — being locked in together, I mean — or at the minimum, endure it. If things go well, the kids can’t imagine themselves anywhere else; they envy and fear the better classes and have contempt for the dumber classes. So the class mostly keeps itself in good marching order. That’s the real lesson of any rigged competition like school. You come to know your place.

Nevertheless, in spite of the overall blueprint, I make an effort to urge children to higher levels of test success, promising eventual transfer from the lower-level class as a reward. I insinuate that the day will come when an employer will hire them on the basis of test scores, even though my own experience is that employers are (rightly) indifferent to such things. I never lie outright, but I’ve come to see that truth and [school]teaching are incompatible.
The lesson of numbered classes is that there is no way out of your class except by magic. Until that happens you must stay where you are put.

Slowly we realize that this system has been gradually becoming even more insanely perverted by the extremist left wingers that are graduating from the Moaist indoctrination centers our universities have become:

NEWARK, Del., October 30, 2007—The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling for the total dismantling of the program, which is a flagrant violation of students’ rights to freedom of conscience and freedom from compelled speech.

Solutions? Remedies? Start by taking your child out of the public school system where the teachers are on average dumber than the average student they are responsible for “educating”. Seriously consider homeschooling your child if you at all care about his or her future. Is it absolutely impossible to find some way to have one responsible family member stay with your child and use a quality homeschooling curriculum to give them the tools they need to succeed?

If that isn’t possible, we are all capable of spending the 2 or 3 hours a day together with our children (time you all currently spend around the TV, video games, internet, etc.?)to use that same curriculum to undo the deliterious effects of being forced to endure learning (under the best conditions) only as fast as the dumbest kids in the class.

At the rate this nation is heading we will be members of a third world country populated by servants of various stripes trying to survive a rotten and crumbling infrastructure and slaving for our foreign masters (think China and Brazil), the only hope left is to ensure that the next generation have the tools and self-confidence necessary to rebuild, and restore what has been ruined so thoroughly by the Gramsciian long march through our institutions

To few Americans is Antonio Gramsci a familiar name. That is to be regretted because the work of the late Italian Marxist sheds much light on our time. It was he who first alerted fellow revolutionaries to the possibility that they would be able to complete the seizure of political power only after having achieved “cultural hegemony,” or control of society’s intellectual life by cultural means alone. His was an incremental, rather than an apocalyptic, revolution-the kind, that is, that we have been witnessing in the United States, and the Western world generally, since the 1960s. With this in mind, we ought not to treat the contemporary “culture war” lightly; the fate of what remains of civilized life may well be decided by its outcome.

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