Teacher here. She knows her shit. We go through yearly sensitivity training. They roll out new buzz words and make us rewrite all of our materials every 2-3 years to match their new language. Every year it gets further from actual education and more about creating receptive and easily influenced consumers.
It’s scary. I consider myself pretty based and have honestly used some of the techniques she describes to bludgeon my main idea across during a lesson without even realizing what I was doing. It’s the easy way out when you are just checking off boxes during a lesson. I’ll do better and will spread the word to my other based colleagues. Blooms is shit and it’s Robert’s rules of order for teachers.
I suggest that you check out the memos and letters she smuggled out of the DOE in the years she was there. She published them in a monster paperback called "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America."
There's very little commentary. She lets the pieces speak for themselves. I was introduced to this in 1999 just as I was getting into homeschooling and I was horrified right off that bat.
There's one that was put out when the Boomers were little explaining that they had to go slow and plan for this to take generatoins. They were worried that if they pushed too fast, parents would see the bad stuff in their kids' homework and push back. They flat out explained how they needed to break down kids' education a bit at a time to get to their end goals.
In another somebody was stressed that the Boomers and the little GenXers scores were too high and they'd identified the problem. (No, ,they didn't refer to them by those monikers. I'm paraphrasing.) Older teachers were automatically teaching the kids phonics while using the sight reading materials. It was natural to them. They decided to get rid of the teachers. Now this explains why so many older teachers were being let go in the late 70's and early 80's. They were doing their jobs too well.
In a way, it was good that the unions stepped in to stop it. Of course they then realized that they had to infiltrate the unions after that so it didn't last long.
Teacher here. She knows her shit. We go through yearly sensitivity training. They roll out new buzz words and make us rewrite all of our materials every 2-3 years to match their new language. Every year it gets further from actual education and more about creating receptive and easily influenced consumers.
It’s scary. I consider myself pretty based and have honestly used some of the techniques she describes to bludgeon my main idea across during a lesson without even realizing what I was doing. It’s the easy way out when you are just checking off boxes during a lesson. I’ll do better and will spread the word to my other based colleagues. Blooms is shit and it’s Robert’s rules of order for teachers.
I suggest that you check out the memos and letters she smuggled out of the DOE in the years she was there. She published them in a monster paperback called "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America."
There's very little commentary. She lets the pieces speak for themselves. I was introduced to this in 1999 just as I was getting into homeschooling and I was horrified right off that bat.
There's one that was put out when the Boomers were little explaining that they had to go slow and plan for this to take generatoins. They were worried that if they pushed too fast, parents would see the bad stuff in their kids' homework and push back. They flat out explained how they needed to break down kids' education a bit at a time to get to their end goals.
In another somebody was stressed that the Boomers and the little GenXers scores were too high and they'd identified the problem. (No, ,they didn't refer to them by those monikers. I'm paraphrasing.) Older teachers were automatically teaching the kids phonics while using the sight reading materials. It was natural to them. They decided to get rid of the teachers. Now this explains why so many older teachers were being let go in the late 70's and early 80's. They were doing their jobs too well.
In a way, it was good that the unions stepped in to stop it. Of course they then realized that they had to infiltrate the unions after that so it didn't last long.