Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Social Engineering
A Teacher’s Critique of ‘We Day’
The social change pep rally was to be a coveted experience for my students. So why do I feel so manipulated?
By Alison Atkinson 30 Oct 2013 | TheTyee.ca
"But unfortunately, We Day’s corporate and media agenda meant the Vancouver event was a celebration of only the simplest, low-risk, low-reward forms of action -- like penny drives, bake sales, and taking a selfie of yourself sitting at a seat in Rogers Arena."
The chart below was calculated using the King county tax calculator.
Most
Seattle home owners don't look at their property tax breakdown.
Funding education is important and it comprises 49% of your property tax bill. Seattle Public Schools yearly operating budget is approaching $1.5 billion.
It is also significant to know that when you vote on Building Excellence levies (BEX) that the district consistently uses those funds for other purposes. Our school buildings average age is 48 years. We fully expect for the Seattle Public Schools to use those BEX funds to rebuild schools, especially the buildings that are over 65 years of age.
Seattle property values are at historical highs and there has never been more taxable housing units....So why is the Seattle School District struggling with funding? Where are all the funds going?
Funding education is important and it comprises 49% of your property tax bill. Seattle Public Schools yearly operating budget is approaching $1.5 billion.
It is also significant to know that when you vote on Building Excellence levies (BEX) that the district consistently uses those funds for other purposes. Our school buildings average age is 48 years. We fully expect for the Seattle Public Schools to use those BEX funds to rebuild schools, especially the buildings that are over 65 years of age.
Seattle property values are at historical highs and there has never been more taxable housing units....So why is the Seattle School District struggling with funding? Where are all the funds going?
Post -Modern Education
The Abolition of Sanity: C.S. Lewis on the Consequences of Modernism
by Dr. Steve Turley
"In his third chapter, ‘The Abolition of Man,’ Lewis sets out his vision of what a world completely governed by scientifically verified facts and devoid of any conception of the Tao would look like. Here, he carefully traces out the premises to their logical conclusions. For Lewis, a society rooted in technology-inspired manipulation must, by definition, organize into two classes of people: manipulators and manipulatees, or in Lewis’ words, conditioners and the conditioned. Lewis recognized that technological societies succeed by convincing the masses that their highest happiness and freedom is found in their reliance on a class of experts and technicians who have the specialized competency to conform the world to their desires and ambitions. But Lewis also recognized that if all of reality has been reduced to mere nature, being understood solely through scientific facts, then even humanity itself will be seen as nothing more than mere nature. And if nature is there to be manipulated to the wants and desires of others, then inevitably the vast majority of humanity would be vulnerable to scientific and technological manipulation according to the needs of the technological elite. It is then, when man will have thought he’d finally conquered nature, that nature will have conquered man, for man as such would cease to exist; a new social order will arise that subsumes the vast majority of humanity under the category of impersonal nature which, in effect, redefines humanity as inherently meaningless; hence the title of his third chapter and the published book, the Abolition of Man."
Turley, Dr. Steve. The Abolition of Sanity: C.S. Lewis on the Consequences of Modernism (p. 10). Turley Talks Publishing. Kindle Edition.
amazon.com/Abolition-Sanity-Lewis-Consequences-Modernism-ebook
Curriculum: Quintilian
"Quintilian disapproves of the common practice of learning the names and sequences of the letters without regard to their form and function; he feels that such a method really hinders the child’s recognition of the letters when arranged in a different order. He prefers the syllabic method…”
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (c. 35
– c. 100 AD) was a Roman educator and rhetorician
from Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance
writing.
Curriculum: Oversight on Illiteracy
OVERSIGHT ON ILLITERACY IN THE UNITED STATES
HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NINTY-NINTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
HEARING HELD IN WASHINGTON, DC, MARCH 20, 1986
Geraldine E Rodgers
"It is, therefore almost UNBELIEVABLE that the method for teaching reading in most American first grades forces children to focus PERMANENT, CONSCIOUS attention on decoding itself. Such reading mimics the activity of a partly deaf person when straining to catch a conversation, he CONSCIOUSLY GUESSES at missing words. THAT is what basal reader phonics REALLY is: teaching children to use only a FEW letter sounds consciously to GUESS at a missing word from the context of the memorized sight-words they can already read. By contrast, true phonics programs teach most children by January of first grade to form reliable conditioned reflexes between all 44 phonemes in English as they occur in syllables. More practice is needed after January to develop those skills to automaticity, but eventually their brain’s computers operate just like the Kurzweil machine. If their conscious minds choose to listen (remember: their minds attention is free) they will have MAXIMUM comprehension, with NO guessing."
http://www.donpotter.net/pdf/rodgers1986testimony.pdf
Funding
Where do the donations go?
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Giving to Education charities was up 6.2% to $58.9 billion (14% of all donations).
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Donations to Human Services charities were up 5.1% to $50.06 billion (12% of all donations).
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Foundations saw an increase of 6% to $45.89 billion (11% of all donations).
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Health charities experienced an increase of 15.5% to $38.27 billion (9% of all donations).
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Public-Society Benefit charities saw an increase of 7.8% to $29.59 billion (7% of all donations).
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