Democrats Dumb Down Our Children

Despite all the hyperbole about improving education the Democrat goal is to dumb down our children.  They know intelligent people will never buy the garbage the Democrats are peddling.  An intelligent electorate will not vote for socialism.  Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats need a dumb electorate.

Falling in line with the socialist Democrats are the teachers who are supposed to educate our children.  The Democrats keep voting more money for the government controlled public schools.  The teachers do their part.  Each year our students are taught less and less.  This is a travesty of the highest level.

New York is another prime example of dumbing down our children.  State education officials had vowed to "strengthen" and "increase the rigor" of both the questions and the scoring when about 1.2 million kids in grades 3 to 8 took English exams in April and math exams last month.  In New York children can now get partial credit for not answering a question.  How does this educate our children? 

"They were giving credit for blatantly wrong things," said an outraged Brooklyn teacher who was among those hired to score the fourth-grade test.   Despite promises that the exams which determine whether students advance to the next grade would not be dumbed down this year, students got "partial credit" for wrong answers after failing to correctly add, subtract, multiply and divide. Some got credit for no answer at all.

Examples in the fourth-grade scoring guide include:

* A kid who answers that a 2-foot-long skateboard is 48 inches long gets half-credit for adding 24 and 24 instead of the correct 12 plus 12.

* A miscalculation that 28 divided by 14 equals 4 instead of 2 is "partially correct" if the student uses the right method to verify the wrong answer.

* Setting up a division problem to find one-fifth of $400, but not solving the problem -- and leaving the answer blank -- gets half-credit.

* A kid who subtracts 57 cents from three quarters for the right change and comes up with 15 cents instead of 18 cents still gets half-credit.

* A student who figures the numbers of books in 35 boxes of 10 gets half-credit despite messed-up multiplication that yields the wrong answer, 150 instead of 350.

These questions ask students to show their work. The scoring guidelines, called "holistic rubrics," require that points be given if a kid's attempt at an answer reflects a "partial understanding" of the math concept, "addresses some element of the task correctly," or uses the "appropriate process" to arrive at a wrong solution. Despite flubbing the answer, students can get 1 point on a 2-point problem and 1 or 2 points on a 3-pointer.

A year ago, Chancellor Joel Klein boasted that the city was making "dramatic progress" when 82 percent of city students passed the state math test and 69 percent passed in English, up sharply from 2002. And fewer kids have been left back in recent years.

The educational system is dumbing down our children.  They ask for more money each year and they teach less each year.  It’s time to clean up the educational system in America.  An excellent start is Election 2010 and voting out the socialist Democrats who promote more money for teachers to dumb down our children.

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