How public schools are sabotaging America
BevK January 26th, 2006
Phonics proponent Dr. Samuel L. Blumenfeld has a bit to say about public education.
I am always amazed at the ignorance of billionaires, smart enough to create great new industries, but totally misinformed when it comes to the problems of our education system. The problems do not start in high school. They start in primary school, and often in kindergarten and pre-school. The blatant educational malpractice that takes place in those early school years is what sets our students on the road to academic disaster.
The educators can get away with this academic genocide because their methods seem to produce acceptable results up to the 4th grade. But after that, it’s all downhill to the bottom of the slope in 12th grade. And by the time we get to the 12th grade, everyone – including Mr. Gates – forgets what happened in the 1st grade.
