It is cookie-cutter time, and for only a moment, that is a welcome idea.
New government-mandated (isn’t that a cozy concept?) guidelines for widely failing public schools may be a positive idea, at least initially.
The supposedly revolutionary first-year Common Core curriculum that is being introduced this term in the School District and throughout California declares that every child shall learn at roughly the same pace.
The skies should open, thunder should rain upon all of us, and leftist educators can reluctantly shout Hallelujah!
Common Core does not externally make exceptions.
That notion is as refreshing as a shower after a rigorous mid-summer workout.
For the last 20 years, the left-wing-controlled teacher unions, and their toadies, have been telling us that a child whose family income falls below the middle-class median is incapable of learning alongside normal children. They also identified a dozen other exceptions for children from assorted cultures. Meanwhile, with their other hand, they are furiously drum-beating for diversity, as if it is a beautiful rather than a purely neutral value.
As ultra-liberals, teachers love dwelling on “students of color,” a typically sloppy leftist formulation.
Somehow, by golly, Asian students, who are children of color, learn at a sizzling pace. They grow up in homes with demanding values.
Leftists harrumph and stutter when they hear about Asians.
However, if black parents stayed together and Hispanic children were more ambitiously motivated by their parents, teachers might not be tempted to carelessly drift into such divisive talk. If teachers spent less time relentlessly searching for faux victims and focused more seriously on lessons for the whole class, the lowly state of public education might begin to emerge from its dreadful decades-long bath.
(To be continued)
