It should be apparent that implementing [‘Social-Emotional Learning Theory’] necessarily presupposes some dilution of the traditional nuts-and-bolts curriculum — the diversion of finite class time to topics and methodologies that have nothing to do with mastering, say, long division. The gurus of SEL make no apologies for this. Rather, as [New York mayor, Bill] de Blasio insists in his Fortune piece, “These are hard skills… just like reading and math, that must be taught, practised, and strengthened over time.” SEL’s unflinching emphasis on the so-called “non-cognitive factors” in cognition is bad news for all supporters of no-nonsense education — that is, the kind that doesn’t encourage students to devote class time to communicating their current emotional status to their peers via emojis, as has happened in some SEL implementations.
Steve Salerno on woke education. One of these.
Ignorance is looked upon as a positive character trait these days. When people can’t figure out how to do basic math or tie their shoes the elite fools will have been a complete success.
What is with all this oppressive teaching? Why can’twe recognize that people should be allowed to identify and express themselves as omniscient beings.?
Teaching is such a white man tool. We should just accept that people can be all knowing without learning and that doing so is true acceptance.
/sarc off
De gubmint is gud fo u. Dey tri t hep al de peepul.
me dunt lik t spel un punkuashun is fo stoopud peepul
me kalled jetro me graduate graid ate
me hed hurt
I take Salerno’s point. Nonetheless teaching long division by hand (much less teaching mastery of the skill) should go the way of teaching how to extract roots by hand. It is, today, a tedious and unrewarding exercise.
It will be very handy to understand when the government has destroyed the ability to produce electricity to run your computer or calculator. When industry can no longer make batteries. Using one’s mind is always possible providing one has learned enough to actually use that mind.
It is much better to be taught HOW to think, as opposed to WHAT to think. The latter being curriculum is child abuse, and must be stopped. All these millennials are going to be good for, is loading Oldtimers and OWGs on trains to the camps ( re-education, concentration ), FFS !!!
Remember, climate deniers will have to be re-educated by any means required.
64, It would take one hell of a lot them to load me on to anything and what they would suffer, they would not survive.
absolutely owg, my strategy which I have chosen long ago:
take as MANY of them with me as I can.
all those jews lined up and traipsing unprotestingly to the ‘showers’ and pits. jeezuz murphy.
is there some deep panic reflex response that kicks in those situations? some wacko fear if they
put up a fight they will be killed? HELLOOOOO it IS gonna happen. well, whatareyagonnadoaboutit?
time and again I randomly remind myself I WILL do ANYTHING I can.
grab a fork and ram it in their ribs, gouge their goddamed eyes out ANYTHING to hurt them.
What these millennial assholes don’t realize is that behind every old timer’s door, is an old timer with anything from a 12 gauge shotgun to an AR15. We are of the generation that believes we have the right to defend out freedoms from those who would take them.
There is little doubt that the progressive elements in today’s governments want to take our freedoms. That is why the are starting to get really serious about taking our guns … see how that works?
“Never give up your guns” – Aristotle.
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“It is, today, a tedious and unrewarding exercise.”
As is a lot of work these days, nevertheless it must be done. In this case, particularly so as it helps the student actually understand what is happening with the math and mental math. I am absolutely shocked at all the ‘tricks’ that are being taught to students to do things. Tricks lead kids to believe that there is an underlying magic that they cannot understand and if they don’t get the trick they won’t be right. Tricks are for rabbits, not serious mathematicians.
Can’t agree.
I’d rather be Forrest Gump than Rainman.
Rainman got the answers right but he didnt know why. Forrest knew he wasn’t smart and that’s all right.
the problem is that the new “math” curriculum is designed in such a way that you never master any topic before jumping to the next one.
they are teaching estimating, without anyone having a solid basis of understanding of the actual maths underneath.
also, teaching long division by hand is tedious, but also allows students to practice some of the other things that they have learned previously.
LARGO..?? Bullshit.
Teaching kids how to do math the way we learned is a skill, once learned, never forgotten. When my two came home with a 2 page explanation of how to multiply fractions – I showed them the way I learned.
to Multipy – Cross mulitply
to Divide – invert one and cross mulitply
They were floored. Took me about 5 seconds with that method and them 15 minutes dicking around with some Stupid Assinine “new Math BS”. Same went for division, Quadratic Equations and extrating roots.
ROTE LEARNING works…it always did. Wanna Prove it.? Just ask any millenial to mulitiply 11 X 12 in their head – then watch as their head near explodes.
I would add that if we really wanted to return our Education system to the Read Write ‘Rithmatic days – which IMO would be an Excellent Idea…then Full on De-Certification of Public Service UNIONS must be the Precusor.
Said Unions are the root of all the Socialist Commie FILTH being peddled in our Public Indoctrination centres.
Steakman, I would say multiplying fractions is an essential skill — both in practically and theoretical math.
I was speaking of long division. Would you have the schools reintroduce extracting roots? If we lacked calculating devices I might support that.
And it a skill that once learned would rarely be forgotten. But I would concentrate on number theoretical algorithms and maybe some from graph theory.
Long division does give children to practice their earlier operational skills. But so would introducing Complex numbers, and these open up a whole new world of mathematical application.
ROTE LEARNING works…it always did.
During my last years of teaching, our department decided to abandon its drafting course. Rather than teaching students how to use the various instruments and how to prepare drawings on vellum, it wanted to focus on sketching only.
I opposed it, partly because I found that, in my experience, students generally couldn’t sketch worth a hoot. But more importantly, by dumping that course, the department was announcing that neatness, patience, and self-discipline didn’t count (after all, a computer was going to take care of that, right?), that they no longer had to visualize what the actual item being depicted in the drawing had to look like, and that the conventional ways of preparing drawings had absolutely no relevance to doing it by computer.
I lost the fight, of course. I was branded as being an elitist–“just because you’re so educated and so smart….” was a sentiment I often heard. Uh, no. I learned how to properly prepare drawings while I was still a dumb kid in high school and I learned even more when, at a certain company I worked for, I had to check fabrication prints before they were issued to our contract shop.
So, we now produce computer-smart graduates who have no idea as to the underlying principles of what they’re working on. But, according to Mark Zuckerjerk, they’re just so much smarter than me.
oh jeez steakman. I got a story for you.
it was my LAST chance at a apprenticeship. the benefits of a license was X years work times Y wages,
‘who gots the answer’
up pipes hb BEFORE the whole rest of them could tap their calculators.
stunned looks all around.
next day I inquire anybody wanna know the trick?
day after that I got BOOTED out of the course for “showing off”
true story.
your tax dollars at ‘work’ (pun intended)
Citizens of both Canada and the USA have been quite willing to have progressives and communist run their education systems for almost 50 years now. What the political aims of these forces are should not be a surprise. Children are being educated to accept top down philosophies that are social in nature and that require no critical thought. Subjective thought challenges clear results based deduction. Accountability is thrown out with the garbage.
Accepted norms of past generations are being destroyed. Faith, capitalism and democracy are waning. Canada has been lost decades ago and now the USA is well on the way to the same fate. Trump is challenging this almost inevitable slid but odds are against him. In historical terms I rank this with the fall of Rome. I suspect we are in for decades of despair. 48% of Canadians are borrowing money to meet their day to day expenses. The true irony is that the recent federal election did not address the finances of the country in any serious way. It was the job of the CPC to bring this situation to the people and they failed.
I have labelled Canada a banana monarchy led by an individual with absolutely no credentials. A nightclub bouncer for goodness sake. The USA, Russia and OPEC are laughing at a 3rd rate effort.
Yes, and YOU made this happen – YOU are the people, YOU are the schools, YOU are the government.
But you don’t vote, do you? You just complain.
Self-government is not a spectator sport.
“The better approach would be to invest meaningfully in the lousy schools that leave minority children so ill-prepared to compete. But that step is hard, costly and time-consuming.”
You could throw more money at them. Or you could admit that they are invariably not worth trying to educate. They were brought to north America precisely because they were duller than whites, and less able to escape or organize slave revolts.
Someone should tell Salerno that computers can be programmed to teach long division, spelling and grammar nowadays, allowing governments to find better uses for taxpayer money than a make-work program for women passed over on the marriage market.
Giving the minority children and their sires and dams free neuters/spays and returning them to point of origin comes to mind.
As a share of a province’s total student enrolments, Manitoba has the highest share of homeschooled students (1.5 per cent), followed by Alberta (1.4 per cent) and Saskatchewan (1.2 per cent).
No amount of “New money” can save the “public education system”.
Producing informed,educated citizens was never the intention, at least not after the bureaucracies took over.
Home schooling is a parents only hope,if they care.
The system is useless and online self education will replace the present children’s prisons as more and more parents opt out.
We all did our time, most of us know the school was a public babysitting service for ages 5 to 18.
Reading,writing and mastery of basic numeracy are forbidden arts in todays kleptocracy.
If a citizen is coherent enough to recognize the theft rate,they must be witches…
Burn the witch, so sayth Canada, but never “Stop the Stealing”.