{"id":1920090,"date":"2023-04-27T10:42:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-public-schools-broken-or-are-the-defects-part-of-the-design\/"},"modified":"2023-04-27T10:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T14:42:13","slug":"are-public-schools-broken-or-are-the-defects-part-of-the-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-public-schools-broken-or-are-the-defects-part-of-the-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Public Schools Broken, Or Are The Defects Part Of The Design?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fare-public-schools-broken-or-are-the-defects-part-of-the-design%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1920090&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Many parents feel the school system is broken. Across America, teachers and textbooks are pushing an agenda to fill children\u2019s minds with information and ideas that are controversial or counterproductive to their healthy development. They have in mind an idea of how schools ought to operate and see them falling far short. Consequently, they believe the system is malfunctioning and simply needs to be fixed. Is this true?<\/p>\n<p>That question can\u2019t be answered properly without understanding the original plans and purposes for which the system was created. Imagine, for example, that you\u2019re in a submarine. You hear some creaking in the pipes near you. Down the corridor, you see some steam emitting from an open valve. Above you, there are gauges that show really high internal pressure inside a row of tanks. Is any of this normal? The sounds are scary and seem to suggest there\u2019s a problem. But until you look at the original schematics and understand how the system was designed, it would be hard to know whether it is broken or working as intended.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-940204276\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c47f411771e3aae325f279e21d374cea fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-c47f411771e3aae325f279e21d374cea\"><\/div>\n<p>Today\u2019s government schools were first designed in the mid-19th century with heavy contributions from Horace Mann, one of the leading education reformers in America. He was an admirer of the schooling system being developed in Prussia, featuring a standardized curriculum, widespread testing, compulsory attendance, professionalization of teachers, and career training. It was an authoritarian, top-down model that emphasized the collective over the individual. Following a trip abroad to see this system in action for himself, Mann became a strong advocate for its implementation in America.<\/p>\n<p>His lobbying effort was swift and successful. Mann was instrumental in getting Massachusetts to adopt the Prussian model of education statewide in 1852, and other states soon followed. What emerged in the years ahead was a new kind of school called the \u201cfactory model school,\u201d where both the design of the school building and the processes used within it were modeled after an actual factory. It was a linear system, moving students through standardized information, regulated processes, and grade levels by age \u2014 akin to a conveyor-belt process in a factory.<\/p>\n<p>Mann\u2019s quest to industrialize education set up a framework \u2014 the foundations of a system \u2014 that other education reformers were then able to use to indoctrinate millions of children. Among others we might mention, John Dewey certainly takes the lead. A secular humanist who theorized an atheist utopia, Dewey stated the following in his book \u201cMy Pedagogic Creed\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>I believe that every teacher should realize the dignity of his calling; that he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. I believe that in this way the teacher always is the prophet of the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of God.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dewey\u2019s \u201ctrue kingdom of God\u201d was government. The schooling system that was still being built across the country enabled Dewey and his like-minded reformers to, in Dewey\u2019s own words, \u201cbuild up forces \u2026 whose natural effect is to undermine the importance and uniqueness of family life.\u201d Academics were secondary. Social transformation was the key, and families stood in the way. The \u201cimportance of public schools\u201d facilitated, for Dewey and his allies, \u201cthe relaxation of older family ties.\u201d<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-142790ab4f1f6fc474444c1027f0384c fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-142790ab4f1f6fc474444c1027f0384c\"><\/div>\n<p>The fundamental intent was to weaken a child\u2019s family relationships and strengthen his or her relationship to \u2014 and dependence upon \u2014 the state. As one prominent official in the National Education Association said in 1934, \u201cThe major function of the school is the social orientation of the individual. It must seek to give him understanding of the transition to a new social order.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It might be tempting to dismiss the delusions of these early school architects as antiquated and irrelevant to our modern day. Surely the kind teachers at the nearby elementary school working hard to help our children don\u2019t share this goal to socially engineer the rising generation, right?<\/p>\n<p>This is no doubt true of many hardworking teachers who signed up at schools to help kids reach their potential. But doing this within the modern school system is like growing tomatoes by planting seedlings in a small pot. The system\u2019s constraint \u2014 the size of the pot \u2014 limits the potential and shapes the future of the seedling. Because root development is limited by the confines of the small pot, the future outcomes of the plant \u2014 the size and quality of its fruit \u2014 are substantially restricted.<\/p>\n<p>The person tending to that pot might be the sweetest person doing the best they know how. They might nurture the tender plant to the best of their ability, but their constant care can\u2019t compensate for the constraints imposed by the system. Only uprooting the plant and placing it in a different, larger pot will allow the caring gardener to fully maximize their efforts.<\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-43aa25b4dcc379bcb16a15b30f0db15b fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-43aa25b4dcc379bcb16a15b30f0db15b\"><\/div>\n<p>Similarly, good teachers aspiring to help students achieve their potential can only do so much in a system that constrains their growth with the Prussian-style, authoritarian \u201cfactory model\u201d built for an economy that no longer exists. The best option for many students might be to place them in a different system altogether.<\/p>\n<p><em>This excerpt is one of 40 chapters from the new book, <\/em>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/43D65rj\"><em>Mediocrity: 40 Ways Government Schools are Failing Today\u2019s Students<\/em><\/a><em>,\u201d written by Connor Boyack and Corey DeAngelis.<\/em><\/p>\n<div  class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3bd06612b037011823462c3685579897 fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-3bd06612b037011823462c3685579897\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">   Boyack is president of Libertas Institute and author of 40 books, including the acclaimed Tuttle Twins series. DeAngelis is senior fellow at the American Federation for Children.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/america\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">America<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/authoritarian\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">authoritarian<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/education-2\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">education<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/factory-model-school\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">factory model school<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/government-schools\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">government schools<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/horace-mann\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">horace mann<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/john-dewey\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">John Dewey<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/mediocrity-40-ways-government-schools-are-failing-todays-students\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Mediocrity: 40 Ways Government Schools are Failing Today&#8217;s Students<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/my-pedagogic-creed\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">My Pedagogic Creed<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/national-education-association\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">National Education Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/prussia\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Prussia<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/public-school\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">public school<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/public-schools\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">public schools<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/school-system\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">school system<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/schools\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">schools<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many parents feel the school system is broken. Across America, teachers and textbooks are pushing an agenda to fill children\u2019s minds with information and ideas that are controversial or counterproductive to their healthy development. They have in mind an idea of how schools ought to operate and see them falling far short. 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