The basis for success in the public schools is not reached by
catering to the low achievers. Where educators discount the high
achievers, and put first emphasis on the needs and efforts of low
achievers, the lowest common denominator syndrome kicks in, pulling down
the high achievers, and does nothing to lift up the low achievers. This
is why public schools that used to cater to high achievers, with
sterling results, when transformed into magnet schools flooded with low
achievers, drag down all to low achievement levels. This rant of mine is
really gotten third hand from a respected, retired superintendet of the
Roseville, Minnesota school district. He was deeply horrified and
angered that they took his school of high achievers and wrecked it. It
was , maybe a high school, that was nationally ranked. That school was
geared to reward and train high achievers. Hard work, individual
self-improvement, academic excellence and grade competition were
promoted.
The school district made it a magnet school.
They places the bulk of their non-elitist attention on nonacheivers and
the lowest common denominator thing kicked in, and high achieving on
the part of anyone disappeared. The school declined into mediocre
production of blah, nonperforming students. This retired superintendent
was furious, and told my boss about their reform that gutted his prize
school.
All these public education experts, all these
wasted trillions of dollars. The aim of institutional bureaucrats,
educators, is to churn out groupist, dull, conforming,
anti-intellectual, lifeless citizens groomed to live their
nonindividuated lives as cogs in the institutional hierarchy.
Kids
are basically evil. They are basically herd creatures. They hate
learning anything. They are lazy. Their are not curious. They are not
ambitious.
Their state of sin makes them herd together.
Those that break out of the herd to self-educate and better
themselves--these latent individuators excel academically and can
compete with high performers anywhere in the world.
When
high achievers are forced back into the bureaucracy with the lazy,
dull, uninspired, collectivized herd of low achievers, then the evil
natures of the high achievers tempts them to abandon self-discipline in
favor of fitting in with the gathered nonperformers, and the lowest
common denominator of all failing to work, to learn, to grow kicks in,
and the school system fails at its mission.
Then,
society allows public employee educators to turn them all into junior
bureaucrats, broken with all the elan vital bled out of them. There
cannot be a worst model for how to educate children then the
Americanmodel.
We need a educational revolution in this country. We need to deinstitutionalize schools and all other institutional systems.
Children,
reared under the Mavellonialist value system, will work hard, be free,
be individual, be increasingly self-directive and self-motivating as
they direct their own educational journey, progressing from excellence
to advanced excellence. Then the highest common denominator phenomenon
will be routine--that the great majority of dull, average and smart kids
are all high achievers. Ambition and hard work trump brains every time.
The
bottom line is that it all starts from our fallen human natures. This
genetic tragedy inflicted upon humankind determines that children are
born to fail and prefer to fail. Then misguided, arrogant, liberal
adults impose institutional training on children that renders them to
live lives of quiet, docile despair, dependent wards of the state. Then
we bring them up as altruists with no self-esteem that spend their lives
sinning, suffering, avoiding God and non-achieving by living group
lives.
Then we send these benighted little souls to public
school to be further crushed and molded into little, gentled robots.
Low achievement and gangs are the only certain outcomes to follow.
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