https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/07/one_way_schools_could_fix_education_that_theyll_never_take.html
What motivates a child to succeed? That is the central question that should be asked on matters of education.
Since at least the inception of the Department of Education in 1980, the emphasis on education is always placed on socializing the components that go into the quality of instruction. Whether it’s the instructor, the classroom size, demographic makeup, funds allocated, resources available, etc., government tends to focus on those things that are tangible and within its purview. But when all funds have been exhausted and we find that our education system fails to keep pace with the rest of the world, our only solution is to look for ways to throw more money at the problem.
It comes as no surprise that the lagging trajectory in the educational performance of American students follows a misallocation of motivators. Motivation most often comes from outside the walls of the school, and that is one area that is not historically within the scope of government responsibility. Of late, the government has been overrun with activists who have attempted to fold the greater culture into academia, and as a result, we’ve begun to impart activist ideology that not only doesn’t motivate students, but disincentivizes excellence and de-motivates them.
Adopting ideology like Critical Race Theory that tells children they are inherently inferior because of their race or sex is child abuse, and the abusers should be called out for what they are doing. On one end of the spectrum, you’re tearing down children for inherent traits that they get no say in and creating self-imposed ceilings in the name of equality. On the other end of the spectrum, you’re tearing down children by telling them their peers are the reason that life will throw adversity at them and creating those same self-imposed ceilings.
Trade race for sex, and we can see the effects of decades of throwing boys under the bus in the name of sex equality. They’re lagging in near every facet of society behind their female counterparts. Activists are aware of this and the successful playbook that they have utilized to tear down the patriarchy is being deployed in the name of tearing down white supremacy. These are boogeymen of their own creation.