I saw on the Five that many students are not at grade level and I believe that basically no students in Baltimore are at grade level in math. This just reinforces my previous rants on the colleges of education. They are a disgrace. And the logical outcome of giving graduate degrees to people who couldn’t do anything in the real world. They have to make up new shit because as opposed to most other disciplines, there is no underlying basic dogma in education. So they can make it up as they go.

So here’s why students are not at grade level in math and reading. I have previously ranted about the new math back in my day. But just as a brief reminder, when I went from catholic school in Tampa to Anchorage they put me in the sweathogs algebra class in the ninth grade, which I basically taught for the first semester, and then they transferred me to the supposed smart class who had been doing the new math involving Venn diagrams (Kamala the cackler would be ecstatic because she cackles about it all the time) and I don’t even remember but distributive and normative or whatever. On my first day in the supposed smart class they were starting what the sweathogs were doing on day one, namely algebra and algebraic equations.

And just so you know, I don’t ever recall any of my kids ever asking me a single question about what was the new math back in my day. They asked many actual questions about algebra one and two and two of them about calculus. Not about some nonsense made up so some idiot could get a Ed doctorate, which as you know I consider the equivalent of a a high school diploma with a couple years of college. Just look at ‘Dr’ Jill.

And what do you expect when another mental midget comes up with ethnomathics. You don’t have to get answers right or show your work because that’s racist. BULLSHIT!

Now let’s talk about reading proficiency. We learned phonics and then some other mental midget came out with some nonsense that went away from that and she has admitted that it was wrong. Listen you can learn to speak a language by listening to it as we all did. As kids growing up you knew not to say I bed go to, unless you’re Pennsylvania Dutch and then you say I go down the stairs up. Anyway my point is that you can learn to speak a language, and there are many apps that can do it for you, but that will not make you able to read it. No first grader knows how to read and spell see Dick and Jane. They can say it but until they are taught phonics and the alphabet they can’t read it.

My point is that the biggest basic problem with our education system, apart from the fact that it isn’t education but indoctrination, is that an excess of mental midgets keep making up total bullshit to get meaningless graduate degrees because they have nothing else. Stick to teaching the 3 R’s. It worked for centuries and it will work now. As I have said previously, you can bet your ass that there is no black African nation that teaches this shit.