I am conflicted.. do I have more issue with touchy-feely teaching or the dumbing-down in the education system!?

I don’t need to choose, since now they are blending these two sickening concepts into one unpalatable mass.

Ethno-mathematics? Michelle Malkin captures this issue perfectly…

Perfect dogma in the Age of Obama: Feeling over facts. Cultural connection over competence. Diversity uber alles.

Johnny won’t be able to add. But he’ll be more ethno-mathematically correct than students from around the world.

Welcome to the Post-Accomplishment Generation.

Now that term made me flashback to Ebonics (the term founded in the early 70’s revived in the mid-90s)

African American Vernacular English (distinctively nonstandard Black United States English), asserting the independence of this from (standard) English. The term became widely known in the U.S. in 1996 due to a controversy over its use by the Oakland School Board.

From Wikipedia:

What is claimed to be the initial mention of "Ebonics" was made by the psychologist^[1] Robert Williams in a dialogue with linguist Ernie Smith that took place in a conference on "Cognitive and Language Development of the Black Child", held in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1973.^[2] In 1975, the term appeared within the title and text of a book edited and co-written by Williams, Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks.

Now when people cry racism, why is it they do not look at the dumbing down of education, the “scholarships” based on race, keeping a job based on race, discrimination law suits (which are based on race)? When a person pulls a race card, they are doing it to gain an advantage they do not think they could otherwise be able to obtain, or could only gain by crying racism… think about it, they themselves are really racist against their own race!

The biggest favor anyone can do for their own self, is to achieve based on merit, not based on race or some other ACLU based issue.

When I see schools lowering standards, why are not enough people asking, who does this benefit? To pass is meaningless if the standards are lowered, and there is an issue with offending someone with a negative grade or red mark on their paper. Failing sometimes is a good thing, we learn from mistakes, and strive to improve due to those lessons.

What kind of world will we have if this kind of garbage continues?

Michelle Malkin » Stupid education fad of the day: “Mayan Math”

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