Are the teachers’ unions intentionally trying to keep schoolchildren as ignorant as possible?
Before you answer, please look at this latest evidence, from Regan Reese’s article for the Daily Caller, via msn.com:
The Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) board of directors voted unanimously Sunday to throw its weight behind a ballot measure to end standardized testing currently required for students to graduate, according to the Boston Globe.
Ahead of the board of directors vote, the MTA submitted a ballot question Wednesday to the state’s Attorney General’s Office for the 2024 election, which would eliminate the requirement that students pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), a test on English, math and science, in order to graduate, according to the Boston Globe. Instead, students would be able to graduate if they complete coursework that meets the state’s academic standards.
The union argues that the MCAS requirement punishes students who are poor test takers and disadvantages those with disabilities or who are not fluent in English, the Boston Globe reported. An average of 700 high school students do not pass the exam each year and do not graduate as a result.
Wow, what a great idea that is. No actual evaluative test to determine if students should graduate, just completion of “coursework” – to be determined and administered by teachers who benefit personally if students “pass”, no matter how compromised the coursework is.
This is how you keep students, then adults, ignorant. Less able to function in the real world. Dependent. Easily malleable.
It is how cities around the country – virtually all run by Democrats, it must be noted – have high graduation rates of students who can barely read or do math.
It is how, in Chicago for example, there is an 84% high school graduation rate, but math and reading proficiency are both in the mid-20% level…and in 55 Chicago public schools where not one student was proficient in either math or reading. Zero.
And, not at all incidentally, this creates a culture of incapacity/dependency that makes people more and more receptive to political parties/advocacy groups which promise to give them stuff that is paid for by someone else.
Now which side of the political aisle might that be? Maybe the one teachers’ unions give virtually every dollar of contributions to?
Let’s take a look at this chart, created by opensecrets.com, and see.
Did you click on the link? Did you look? And are you surprised to find that virtually every dollar goes to Democrat and liberal groups (is there really any difference?) I’m betting the answer is no.
So, does Massachusetts really want to go down that same road? Well, if the folks there support the teachers’ union positions, the answer is a resounding yes.
Oh, and be sure to give them a nice pay hike when they threaten to strike next time the contract runs out. After all, look at what a great job they’re doing teaching your children.
