STATS PROVE DEMOCRATS, BUREAUCRATS STRIVE TO KEEP CHILDREN ILLITERATE

Uneducated People Are Easier To Control, To Manipulate, To Scam

When dictators first take over a country, they must subdue the populace.  They have already slaughtered those who actively fought for their freedom.  But, in order to maintain control, they must find and eliminate those who might cause trouble in the future.  They must eliminate “thinkers.” 

When Pol Pot, the architect of Cambodia’s killing fields wherein 1.3 Million human beings were slaughtered, assumed power in 1975 he set about killing anyone who was caught in possession of eyeglasses and wristwatches.  Why?  Because this meant that YOU COULD READ AND WRITE, you had some level of education.  Educated people were “thinkers” who might communicate with other “thinkers” and come up with plans to overturn Pol Pot’s regime.

TAKING CONTROL AWAY FROM PARENTS & LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Since the Carter Administration established the federal Department of Education in 1979 educational levels have steadily declined.  As the new senator from Delaware, Joe Biden voted to centralize control of education in the DC Swamp. As his re-election approached, Carter needed the support of the powerful teachers’ unions, and giving them this cabinet level agency ensured their members would fund his re-election and vote for him.    

This writer asserts that the decline in the skills Americans need in life was and is intentional.  The less educated the populace, the easier we are to control, and bureaucrats are all about control.  Even if dummying down Americans was not the original goal of federal bureaucrats & politicians, they are now fully aware that their policies have produced generations less educated than preceding generations, yet have shown little desire to correct this horrible trend.

Parents were the first to sound the alarm over the decline in educational standards and have been pushing for school choice for decades, with some help from Republicans.  Democrats have furiously fought back, refusing to give up their indoctrination centers. 

KEEPING BLACK CHILDREN ON THE DEMOCRAT PLANTATION

Recently released data revealed reading, writing and math skills among 9-year-olds dramatically declined these last two years.   The decline was the worst for black children, producing an even wider gap between blacks and other races.

Growing up in the 1950s and 1960s I was aware that some of the elderly in our community could not read or write.  I don’t recall ever meeting any of them, but I heard my parents mentioning it.  These Americans would have been born in the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s when 1) many farm children didn’t have ready access to schools and 2) in agricultural regions, many parents didn’t think their children needed formal schooling.

The first time I met an American who couldn’t read or write was in 1988, when I was practicing law.  I was shocked because he was only in his 70s.  When he signed the document I had prepared he made his “mark,” a big “X,” after I read it to him.  By the time I retired in 2020 I was accustomed to dealing with adult clients who struggled to read at grade school levels, although they could sign their own names.  This, despite the fact that I practiced in a suburb which purportedly had the best school district in Oregon.  Even the 2020 student-editor of the high school newspaper there had trouble writing coherent sentences.

LITERACY: UP, UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, DOWN

Literacy in America steadily increased until the 1980s.  For example, in 1870 the literacy rate was 80%, in 1900 it was 89.3%, in 1940 it was 97.1% and in 1979 99.4% of American adults could read and write.  That was the highest the literacy rate ever got, and it has dropped continually ever since.

The casual observer has noticed that, on average, those who came of age around 2020 do not have the reading & writing skills of an American who came of age around 1970, for example.  The stats reveal that the adult literacy rate has dropped dramatically since federal bureaucrats and politicians bullied their way into education.  The current adult literacy rate in America is 79% according to the federal Department of Education.  Shocking and disgusting and needless.  Since it’s inception, the DOE has presided over reversal of literacy skills among Americans from 99.4% to 79%.

The head of the federal agency that keeps track of education levels recently admitted that all skill levels, including reading, have continually declined since the 1970s. 

“In fact, the declines from this assessment show that students in 2022 are performing at a similar level to two decades ago,” said Carr, adding that the report shows even high-performing student scores declined for the first time in the past decade. “They also represent the first-ever decline in mathematics and one of the largest-ever declines in reading since the long-term trend assessment was first given in the 1970s." 

Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics.

DEMOCRATS FIGHT TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OVER EDUCATION

In order to keep the teachers’ unions and federal bureaucrats in charge of YOUR child’s education, Biden’s US Attorney General named unhappy parents as domestic terrorists last year, set up a unit to spy on and intimidate parents, and is sending out FBI agents to harass them into silence.