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Illiteracy is Now a Problem Here at Home

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We all know that we have problems in our nation. Few realize how bad our education problems are. Not just porn in schools — which is atrocious and surprisingly everywhere from red states to blue and from big cities to small. Even some little hamlets are finding dads in cowboy country coming in angry about their boys being depredated upon.

But I want to talk to you about the problems of basic education. Yes, in your town where the headlines say how great the schools are. Yes, in your town where there are plenty of private and Christian schools. Yes…. we have an illiteracy problem.

If someone could have schemed how to taken down our nation.. they would have done this. Well, sorry, they did do this.

It is hidden that people can not actually read well. But employers know it when they can’t find people to hire. (Well, lack of character such that prospective employees don’t want to actual work is another problem.) It is a problem when your Bank VP can’t read the bank’s advertisement. It is a problem when your school teacher can not pass the literacy test. Oh, right, that happened back in the 1990s in Texas. The powers that be spun it to make the population think the test was a competency test; it was not ideological; it was a literacy test. And boy, were there re-takes.

Let’s consider this problem and what we might do about it.

And let’s mention WHY it is so important.

She Was NOT “Kicked Out” of Class — How to Handle Controversy in College

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So, the incident a couple of weeks ago claimed that a student was kicked out of class for refusing to go along with sexual indoctrination. Actually what the video showed was the professor agreeing to let the student leave, after the student makes some outrageously ignorant comments. She was not kicked out. We don’t have enough of the video to actually know the professor was up to. What we do hear is not adept, but without context we can not judge that she was indoctrinating the student. Maybe she was, but everyone in the story handled themselves badly.

HERE IS HOW TO PROCEED IN A MORE EFFECTIVE MANNER

Here is how to do better.

Controversy is a must as a subject in college. It is a must because one will face societal controversies when one graduates and becomes a professional. Perhaps that is what the university president meant to say. We don’t know. What we know are a very few words, again, taken out of context. Not a good look.

Just like the student didn’t seem to know the rules of the game of college classroom, so the politician didn’t seem to know the rules of the game about college administration. The college president has no control, or shouldn’t, over the teaching in the classroom. We already had ongoing controversies about academic freedom and tenure. The politician who started this might indeed know the game of political “gotcha” with regard to media. That is not how we want to controvert issues, not how we want to be lead, and certainly not the kind of character we want to govern.

Let’s get into it.

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Related to this episode,please notice my book on how to not lose your faith while in college.

https://www.lulu.com/search?page=1&sortBy=RELEVANCE&q=not+to+not+lose+your+faith+in+college+sharon+sarles&pageSize=10&adult_audience_rating=00

Also, a teaching series on how to teach (whether your children or your students) in these dangerous times. It is an exegesis of 2 Timothy 1 and 2. Go to shop. Notice we have a sale.

Our Education System is so Bad, we Need to Start Over!

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