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While other countries are preparing their children to excel in academics and become high achievers in math, science and the arts, America is going the opposite direction.
We now have English teachers who are opposed to … *checks notes* … reading books.
You might think this is satire. Sadly, our culture is fast becoming a living embodiment of satire. And our ‘educators’ are leading the charge.
Anyone who has read the story of Frederick Douglass knows that he points to his education, and especially his literacy, as the thing which fundamentally transformed his life and unlocked a whole new world to him.
Our educators today would put that world back under lock and key for generations to come.
In an attempt to accomodate the transition into a digital age, English teachers are moving away from an education model that emphasizes the historical method of conveying and mastering our language: books and essays.
The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) published a position statement on Tuesday that has decided reading books and writing essays is overrated and that it’s time to “decenter” those traditional activities.
…“Students should examine how digital media and popular culture are completely intermingled with language, literature, and writing. The time has come to decenter book reading and essay writing as the pinnacles of English language arts education,” the statement read. —DailyWire
Literacy is expanding. ELA educators must help learners develop knowledge, skills & competencies needed in a digital & mediated world. We address 3 core themes that make media education fundamental to teaching & learning in ELA in a new position statement: https://t.co/Olbiwar4ru pic.twitter.com/1cAOeBYzIP
— NCTE (@ncte) April 12, 2022
I am so sorry that the discipline I will be handing off when I retire will be so much lesser than the profession I was handed by teachers before me.
— Matt Ryan hosts #CanonChat (@MatRyanELATeach) April 13, 2022
What will they be getting instead of the traditional tools of learning?
You can be sure they’ll learn all kinds of provocative things about race essentialism, oppression and oppressors, gender expression, socialism and globalism that weren’t even spoken about in polite company only a few short years ago.
Priorities, you see. You can’t teach everything, and something’s gotta go, after all.
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