They saw harrison bergeron as not a cautionary tale but a how to manual

“This test is too hard! (So they lower the standards!)

I’m not good at sports! (So they give them all trophies!)

My dad used to spank me! (So they lower the standards!)

I’m too fat for this seat! (So they widen the standards!)

They say no cause I’m black! (So they lower the standards!)

They say no cause I’m white! (So they lower the standards!)

They say no cause I’m Asian! (So they lower the standards!)

¡No habla Inglés! (y cambiamos de Standards!)”.

(p.s.- Carlos Mencia uses VERY, R-rated language in this song, so- you might be startled by the song’s words, if you: watch a video of the song, or if you look up ALL of the song’s lyrics.)

Javier Milei’s bureaucracy-cutting chainsaw keeps looking better and better.

Thanks for the references and citations: so much of the foundation for the destruction of American schools happened before I was paying attention.
Your knowledge base is much appreciated.

Iserbyte pointed out that there were more nafarious reasons for computers in school… now everyone is sold on the excuse… and no one knows the dirty reason that she discovered when she was in the Reagan administration

Charlotte Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational
Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle on a major technology initiative which would control curriculum in America’s classrooms. Iserbyt is a former school board director in Camden, Maine and was co-founder and research analyst of Guardians of Education for Maine (GEM) from 1978 to 2000. She has also served in the American Red Cross on Guam and Japan during the Korean War, and in the United States Foreign Service in Belgium and in the Republic of South Africa. Iserbyt is a speaker and writer, best known for her 1985 booklet Back to Basics Reform or OBE: Skinnerian International Curriculum and her 1989 pamphlet Soviets in the Classroom: America’s Latest Education Fad which covered the details of the U.S.-Soviet and Carnegie-Soviet Education Agreements which remain in effect to this day. She is a freelance writer and has had articles published in Human Events, The Washington Times, The Bangor Daily News, and included in the record of Congressional hearings.

I won’t redo things again.. i dont have the time, nor the will
it would be a 2nd waste of time, like he first time i put up great detail and references…

“In our schools, every classroom in America must be connected to the information superhighway, with computers and good software, and well-trained teachers. We are working with the telecommunications industry, educators and parents to connect 20 percent of California’s classrooms this spring, and every classroom and every library in the entire United States by the year 2000. I ask Congress to support this educational technology initiative so that we can make sure this national partnership succeeds.”

— President Clinton from his State of the Union Address

Ronald Reagan promised to get rid of the Board of Ed!
how did that go?

“I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers to care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic — it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”

? John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.”
? John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Free Book:
The deliberate dumbing down of America
A Chronological Paper Trail
https://mpnl.org/Dumbing%20Down%20of%20America.pdf

Not the first time… probably the last…

The sequel, nearly as good is “The Dumbest Generation Grows up”

“The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America — A Chronological Paper Trail”
“Exposing the Global Road to Ruin Through Education”
“Back to Basics Reform or OBE Skinnerian International Curriculum”

“Soviets in the Classroom” — first published in 1989 — is an important piece of work which outlines the agreements made between our government and the Soviets with regard to education. Included is a timeline starting from the 1930s on, which lists important events related to this transformation.

As did another (even older from before the board of ed and was teacher of the year… gatto)… neo can look them up no one is much interested, unless things have changed in them

All those people in our top-level bureaucracies graduated from our universities that believed in passing through students who were not qualified, particularly women. They graduated from our universities that believe in permitting plagiarism in order to help women look as if they were better scholars than they were–the goal was to get them leadership jobs in governments and other schools. Those obedient little “agents of change” will do anything their leader of NOW, or the Democratic party tells them to do! They like that good money and those secure jobs. They love that feeling of being a leader–it feels so good when you actually help to change the system, i.e. bring down America.

yes miss Cortez is probably a disciple of Zinn, even if he passed before she could take a class from him, the Peoples History is an ur text, much like Open Veins is for Latin Americans in forming the perfect American idiot (ht Vargas Llosa fils)

its not merely what they don’t know can full multitudes, its what they think they know is voluminous, so 57 genders, the AGW praxis, the 1619 project, even though that is a new thing, the catchall is Common Core, or Rotten Core, chalk full of category error from Soviet designed constructivist templates, where facts are well unsafe for young minds

the latter I derived from the invisible serf’s collar blog, which sadly is no longer extant,