When I am traveling I enjoy talking to the locals; however, during my trip to Seattle two weeks ago I discovered something I was not expecting: America’s public school system is worse than I thought.
Never forget that ignorance is bliss, and the Marxist Democrat controlled Department of Education (ha, ha) wants to keep it that way. Enter President Donald Trump and, gadzooks, the goal to reach the lowest common denominator is being replaced by meritocracy.
Sadly deficient education for sure Diane! But, having been educated in public schools of the PacNW back when they were good (the 1950s!) and having a Portland perspective on Seattle, I can tell you that the "Inland Empire" (Columbia River drainage) of Washington has always been at least somewhat more focused on Portland (it's natural river port and market point) than it has on Seattle. That has probably been true up until the time when the government in Olympia started invading the daily life of everyone in Washington state. And that part of the state has been, I think, historically equally ignored by those in Metro Seattle.
Time was when virtually ALL of E. Washington's major export products (wheat, fruit) shipped through Portland and I'm pretty sure that the majority, at least of wheat, still does. And of course that all has to do with the water highway of the "mighty Columbia." To a lot of children of Seattle, Eastern Washington has been like another state in the mindset they grew up with. Eastern Washington and Oregon have a lot in common and really probably should be another state!
My late uncle, a physician, grew up in Albany, Oregon in the early 1900s. He used to talk about how much of his elementary education was focused on the history and geography of Oregon. Among other things now unimaginable, students were required to be able to recite the names, county seats and major products of all 36 Oregon counties. Can you conceive in your wildest fantasy a modern school even teaching that to elementary students, let alone requiring them to be able to recite it!!
In 1971, a high school (Pasadena) friend was a Japanese girl - nisei. We were chatting about the annual (informal, pickup) “Pearl Harbor” flag football game in a few days. She thought Pearl Harbor was in Long Beach …
Never forget that ignorance is bliss, and the Marxist Democrat controlled Department of Education (ha, ha) wants to keep it that way. Enter President Donald Trump and, gadzooks, the goal to reach the lowest common denominator is being replaced by meritocracy.
Sadly deficient education for sure Diane! But, having been educated in public schools of the PacNW back when they were good (the 1950s!) and having a Portland perspective on Seattle, I can tell you that the "Inland Empire" (Columbia River drainage) of Washington has always been at least somewhat more focused on Portland (it's natural river port and market point) than it has on Seattle. That has probably been true up until the time when the government in Olympia started invading the daily life of everyone in Washington state. And that part of the state has been, I think, historically equally ignored by those in Metro Seattle.
Time was when virtually ALL of E. Washington's major export products (wheat, fruit) shipped through Portland and I'm pretty sure that the majority, at least of wheat, still does. And of course that all has to do with the water highway of the "mighty Columbia." To a lot of children of Seattle, Eastern Washington has been like another state in the mindset they grew up with. Eastern Washington and Oregon have a lot in common and really probably should be another state!
My late uncle, a physician, grew up in Albany, Oregon in the early 1900s. He used to talk about how much of his elementary education was focused on the history and geography of Oregon. Among other things now unimaginable, students were required to be able to recite the names, county seats and major products of all 36 Oregon counties. Can you conceive in your wildest fantasy a modern school even teaching that to elementary students, let alone requiring them to be able to recite it!!
It is not miseducation. It is maleducation.
In 1971, a high school (Pasadena) friend was a Japanese girl - nisei. We were chatting about the annual (informal, pickup) “Pearl Harbor” flag football game in a few days. She thought Pearl Harbor was in Long Beach …
Even the young women teachers are GROOMERS these days...plus outside of Seattle proper! They will be held to account for waht they have done!