Yes, Education DOES Matter

I do hope that one was sitting down for that:

Correcting children who mispronounce words is a form of prejudice, according to academic experts.

Specialists from the University of Essex say there is no such thing as ‘correct’ language or terminology and that there is nothing wrong, for example, with articulating the verb ‘ask’ as ‘aks’.

 

No, it's a matter of teaching children the proper way to pronounce things so that they can be understood and ultimately become successful in life.

If such "experts" insist on such gibberish, then one can do quite well without them.

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From China:

As soon as the CCP took power, it outlawed all private schools and provided free pre-K to college to every citizen. Since most Chinese people at that time were poor and had little or no access to education, they were grateful for this policy and supported the CCP.

Both of my parents had to work and had no time for my siblings and me. I was taught that my purpose in life was to spread Communism worldwide. The political officers told us that we had to raise our class consciousness. We were encouraged to report on grownups, including our parents, who might say something different from what the CCP taught. They told us that since the adults grew up in Old China, their ideas, culture, habits, and customs had to be purged through reeducation.

Everything was about class struggle. We children of the Red Five - revolutionary soldiers, revolutionary officials, workers, poor peasants, and lower peasants - were against children of the Black Five - former landowners, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, bad elements, and the rightists. But you had to be careful all the time, lest you become a counter-revolutionary. For example, you dared not to say Chairman Mao would die one day. So, when he died in 1976, it was a huge psychological shock to all of us. We felt the world was going to end.

 

To the New World:

Let’s humor critics who say charter schools get amazing academic outcomes only because the parents of their children “care a lot about education.” Then Asian parents are ideal for charter schools! Even ex-Mayor Bill de Blasio finally conceded that Asian parents “care a lot about education” — after he attacked Asians relentlessly all throughout his second term for, basically, caring a lot about education.

Bottom line: charter schools deliver results, and that’s what Asian parents want. This example is typical: in South Brooklyn, where many Chinese live, Success Academy Bensonhurst trounces PS 97 nearby in proficiency rates in both math (100% vs 61%) and language arts (93% vs 65%).

Yes, the Brooklyn School of Inquiry (BSI), a city school near Success Academy Bensonhurst, also outperforms PS 97. But BSI boasts a highly sought-after citywide Gifted and Talented (G&T) program, and it still can’t stand up to Success Academy (88% and 82% in math and language arts, respectively, vs. Success Academy’s 100% and 93%). Worse, with an arrogance now typical, the city suddenly killed all G&T programs last year, for “equity.” That spells the end of the once-desirable BSI.

While city schools give up educating, they have launched increasingly grandiose diversions. They take on “trauma-informed” pedagogy, socio-psychiatric therapy, “gender choice” advocacy, race-centric indoctrination, and parental displacement, but can’t even keep gangs and weapons out of schools. Asian families know about the political brainwashing, alienation of parental affection and racial quotas. Now, with decent education disappearing, they see city schools as impossible.

Asian parents embrace cultural values practiced in the best charter networks but denounced by city schools. They prefer hard work over entitlement, agency over victimhood, achievement over narcissism, empowerment over fragility.