Dummies Creating Dummies
Whatever one might think of the mentality of the citizens of Taxachusetts and their taste in politicians, one doesn’t normally think of it being a State full of uneducated functional illiterates. Perhaps one expects too much of their school system, which seems to be doing an exemplary job of dumbing down Massachusetts kids for the Progressive agenda. The article, “Aspiring school teachers fail in math” explains much:
MALDEN, Mass. (WPRI) – According to state education officials, nearly three-quarters of the people who took the state elementary school teacher’s licensing exam this year failed the new math section.
The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released the results Tuesday. They say that only 27 percent of the more than 600 candidates who took the test passed. The test was administered in March of this year.
The teacher’s licensing exam tested potential teachers on their knowledge of elementary school mathematics. This included geometry, statistics, and probability.
Education Commissioner Mitchell Chester was not surprised by the results. He told the Boston Globe that these results indicate many students are not receiving an adequate math education.
Tom Scott, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents , said “The high failure rate puts a shining light on a deficiency in teacher-prep programs.”
Elementary school mathematics? College graduates who have been actively training to become teachers? Is this pathetic, or what? â—„Daveâ–º
Geometry, statistics, and probability? I don’t think more than a couple of my high school teachers could do that. I was never even taught statistics or probability, and I made it through three years of college. It isn’t these teachers who have failed, it is those who taught their teachers. Public education is an embarrassment. I really think that everything I learned in all those years of schooling I could have learned by the fourth grade. If it weren’t for video games, i’m not sure I would have ended up literate.