Isnt that a fault with how the kid is raised when very young? I bet a kid who grew up on a farm for example isnt saddled with this nonsense.

"It should be about learning, NOT rammng info down the throats of kids."

I don't disagree. It should be about learning.

"why not encourage that as kids(?)"

A little thing called maturity and responsibility - neither of which are present in the vast majority of under-20-year-olds.

A large part of maturing is coming to realize that there is a lot more to life than just instant gratification. IMHO, a large part of what is so wrong with the millennial generation is that they have been allowed to only choose the things they like. Very few have actually had to do anything of significant difficulty. Many millennials can't even look off in the distance long enough to see that mountain in the distance to climb. As a result, many are petulant whiners with unrealistic expectations that everyone else should cater to their whims. Very few are willing to go out and do the hard work necessary to succeed on their own merits. They don't realize just how much they have bought into the "you didn't build that" of Barack Obama.

It isn't the destination that makes the journey memorable, but the struggles along the way. No one celebrates someone who drives 26.2 miles to the end of a marathon.

In Colorado, the Republicans submitted a Parent's Bill of Rights. The legislation would have required parental involvement with their children's education and health. The Democrats tabled it into oblivion. You can read the dangerous ideas proposed here
https://www.leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb...

I agree!

Yes! YES! Y E S ! ! !

It should be about learning, NOT rammng info down the throats of kids. They are naturally curious and will learn what they think will benefit them. Thats what we do as adults, why not encourage that as kids.

In high school I had to take latin and french and americal history and english literature. Basically worthless information in my life as it turned out 50 years later. I was bored silly in public high school. Had to go to classes or get in various kinds of trouble from government and/or parents. I wasted years of that stuff. I learned more useful stuff from working in my own basement shop and visiting the neighbor across the street.

I saw it in action, 20 years ago, after talking with Tom DeWeese of the American Policy Center, high school classmate. He told me what I saw was not local, but all over, and all tied to UN Agenda 21, to transform kids' thinking. They needed them to not know academics, to be anti-capitalism, anti-property rights, and basically mush heads. They use Maslow group therapy, which Maslow called dangerous, outside a trained therapists office, to break them down. They feed them false history, throw in values clarification, turn kids against parents (as admitted to me by the lead of the local teachers' union). They come out dumber thand when they went in, and brainwashed. Inttroduce you early teen to "Anthem" and go from there, so thy at least recognize what is happening to them.

Nick is an Austrailian the LOVES America and everything she stands for.
President Trump Asks Nick Adams To Serve In His Administration
Secretary of Education, Secretary of Human Services and three other Presidential appointees on the Board of the Wilson Center, the government's think tank on international politics and global affairs, officially part of the Smithsonian Institution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1YH-...

Maybe this will help combat this bull crap.

I see that. Like those guys. Wish they said "god" a few less times, but they are great, and don't lord the religious crap over students.

I am doing some of their online lectures, myself.

Not sure they will take on the online market as aggressively as possible though.

Hillsdale College is entering the 1-12 venue...one of the very best schools in the country and they do not take a dime of government money.

Teaching WHAT to think, not HOW to think.

Now is the time to start an online forum for education, and wipe out the over-priced, under-performing, politically-motivated public schools and universities.

My wife teaches nursing in college, and I see no reason why she really needs more than a few other people to completely serve the needs of her students. I could easily do the same in engineering,

It is time for open market education!

I think one of the most valuable lessons one can learn is how to push past not liking something and doing it anyway because it needs to be done. Most of like isn't doing things we want to do, but doing things that have to be done so that life goes on. Sure, kids should have some time every day to study something they like, but it shouldn't be at the expense of the other things they need to know like civics, basic economics, the principle of compound interest, proper reading, writing, and speaking, geography, etc.

I have found that the reason most kids don't like certain topics is far less about the kid than it is about the way in which the material is presented. That is predominantly a "teaching" function where the good teachers are those who engage the kids and help them learn the material in a way which works for that child. I think one of the flaws in current public schools is a failure to separate kids out according to how they learn and teaching them commensurately. While I think its valuable to have kids of the same ages learning together (because they are also learning social cues, etc.) I would love to see them separated based on their learning styles for maximum effectiveness.

I find this scenario very strange indeed. When I went to school the teacher taught the subject material with only a few willing to help students who needed help. In college at least I was able to choose the courses for the most part. Some Prof's made the subject matter enthralling. When my son went to the local school where I still live they just wanted to crank the children out of the system even more so with those with learning problems. That's why when he was in high school I was there once a week insisting more help for him on understanding the material. They really disliked me. If it were now I would probably arrested for harassment. I can't believe those teacher who thinks it's there job to indoctrinate children on societal mores & sexuality.

I happen to think that the idea of "teaching" is flawed. It should be concentrated on "learning", which is an individual thing. Kids are hungry to learn the things that interest them, and we should encourage that.

I think the whole idea of tax supported mandated public education should be scrapped. The responsibility for learning should be put on the shoulders of the parents early on, and then on the students themselves. I think the whole idea of "teaching" is flawed- it should be thought of as "learning", and that should be up to the child as much as possible.

This is BEYOND amazing!!

Arrogance.

It is enough to make you want to homeschool, or hire your own teacher to teach at home.

In the Conservative South, in about 1969, our sixth-grade class got a radical "math teacher" from whom I learned pretty much nothing that fall except how we should support the grape boycott and not eat raisins or grapes. He even wore an arm-band to show his support for the cause. He was very vocal in indoctrinating us in all things even vaguely Socialist. I tired of it pretty quickly and was the only Ham-radio and Electrical-Engineering-oriented sixth grader in the class and brought in my snazzy little battery powered tape recorder a couple of times to record whenever he took off on a political rant. The second time, he realized what I was doing, yelled at me to turn it off, and forbade me to ever bring it into class again. The story would have ended there, except that my best friend, also in the same class, was the son of the county school superintendent, who got to hear the tapes. We got a new math teacher soon after. I suppose in this day and age, I would have been arrested for spying on a teacher, but it was very satisfying at the time. I wasn't even Libertarian yet. It would be years before I read Ringer's "Restoring the American Dream" or any of Rand's works, but I was a logical kid, and knew even at that age that there was something fundamentally unsettling and fundamentally wrong about that cretin's politics.

Hmm...

Leadership and planning, is where Trump, if possible, should concentrate, however, I don't think it's in his purview to do that.

It is! Their self righteousness is the product of Madison Avenue and MSM brainwashing! They have been convinced that up is down and that good is bad. Hitler knew that if you told the "big lie" enough times, eventually the people would take it as Truth! That is what has happened here in this country. The MSM (all including Fox) have twisted the masses to believe just about anything and that is where we are. The old days we were taught in school (before the system was taken over by the brainwashed fools) how to think, not what to think (at least a lot less than now). There is no such thing as "Critical Thinking" because dissenting ideas are no longer tolerated in these institutions of learning.

To the contrary, now and type of doctrine that does not follow the Communist/Socialist propaganda is not allowed. Virtue signaling and the idiotic "Cancel" culture are now the "Hitler Brownshirts" masquerading as the educational elite and the supposedly, educated students that couldn't even pass a 1900 8th grade exam to get you into highschool. Truth be told! However they can cite you chapter and verse about just about every pop scientific, crackpot theory. God help us all!

Understanding Communism and its cynical tenets knows full well that this has little or anything to do with race or social justice. They are just buzz words to fool the uninitiated and/or ignorant with mindless jargon designed to lull the average citizen with platitudes that sound highminded. That is what brainwashing and propaganda are designed to do.

Unfortunately, In American, it only takes a light rinse in order to convince good people to support stupid and corrupt things. Simple truth!

Now you are threatening the cornerstone of the entire corrupt system. The unions! You might as well try to hold back the tides......Just kidding, a truly educated population can rein in the vast corruption that is built into the system. Unions support and fund politicians who then turn around and promote through laws and tax levies the corrupt unions. It is a vicious cycle that has been allowed to fester for years now. Teachers that want to do the right thing are stepped on their corrupt union leaders. It is a sick and getting sicker system!