The Post-Modern West and Its Failure At Academics

 In the milieu of wokism but not academic or personal excellence:

It was understood too that pupils were meant, through the gradual progression through the grades, (usually 1 to 12, though in places like Newfoundland where kids were generally brighter than those on the mainland, 1 to 11) to advance in competence and knowledge with each year.

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A most fallible understanding.

Why, fallible? Because — and I repeat, this was in neolithic times — they were sealed off, quarantined, from all progressive thought. They were deliberately limited to learning the basics of literacy, numeracy, history and even — in the higher grades — the elements of scientific thought and the glories of literature.

They were not offered the Bethlehem gifts of social justice activism; they were denied the stories of the private lives of teachers. There were no WE days, to gather in mass rallies when two very dubious evangelists in T-shirts rallied them for the great causes of the day and why they should contribute to building concrete-block “school houses” in Kenya.

They were denied the necessary messages of “global warming” and, as I remember, never shown the always declining and still there “Amazon rainforest.” And, on sexuality “studies” — well there was the ultimate deprivation.

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Do you know, young readers, that in these far-off times, no teacher would dare enter a classroom with plastic and gigantic replicas of the human female breast under a very strained woollen sweater and bicycle shorts as matching accoutrement? And, if not mocked for doing so, would be severely frowned at?

Yes. This is true. I know. It strains credibility.

But every young nation has its flaws, and thank goodness today’s school boards are headed by such progressive minds that young children are given full lessons on the expression of gender fluidity, environmental catastrophism, the perils of “white supremacy.” And thank all the gods that be, they are not asked to stand in class and spell any of these terms.

 

Let's see where these woke snowflakes are in the job market.