This is what taxpayers in Wisconsin pay for. Twice! Once at "prestige" post-high-school party schools with imaginary 'scholastic' work, and then again when the Edjumakated twits get paid to spread this crap in local school systems. The remedy for this? See the last line of this post.
I studied for a master’s degree in education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. My program was batty. We made Black Lives Matter friendship bracelets. We passed around a popsicle stick to designate whose turn it was to talk while professors compelled us to discuss our life’s traumas. We read poems through the “lenses” of Marxism and critical race theory in preparation for our students doing the same. Our final projects were acrostic poems or ironic rap videos....
Note well: the year was 2015 and UW-Mad was already pushing BLM. Riots ensued in '20.
Well, that was then. This is now!!!
...The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty has reviewed the required coursework for 14 programs for teachers-to-be in the Badger State. These programs produce about 80% of all teaching graduates in the state each year. What they found was shocking. Worldview building and ideological manipulation take precedence over teacher preparation.
On the syllabi, noticeably lacking are academic literature or manuals of classroom instruction. Instead, Hollywood movies like “Freedom Writers,” popular books like Jonathan Kozol’s “Letters to a Young Teacher,” and propaganda like “Anti-Racist Baby” abound. In place of academic essays, graduate students write personal poems or collect photographs. These kitschy activities infantilize what ought to be a rigorous pursuit of professional competency....
Let me get this straight: THAT curriculum "qualifies" someone to "teach"?
(Side-note: we spent time with young teachers in a non-curricular setting about 30 years ago. It was clear to me at that time that these were not-seriously educated people; in fact, it was often difficult to notice any difference between the teachers and their middle-school students.)
...Each program exhibits a philosophy of education called critical pedagogy, made popular by Brazilian Marxist Paulo Freire, that envisions schools as places not of academic instruction but of societal change.
Freire, one of the authors assigned most often in schools of education, mapped the oppressor-oppressed dichotomy onto the teacher-student relationship and advocated for what he believed was a 'liberatory' education. He cited the Maoist and Leninist Revolutions as ideals of his thought in action. Where Freire shifts from Marxist ramblings to practical advice, he encourages teachers to spur their students toward discontent with the world around them.
If there’s practical training involved, it’s likely to be about how to discuss LGBTQ+ issues with 3-year-olds. The same philosophy encourages “action civics.” Rather than teaching a straightforward history curriculum, educators are expected to encourage their students to advocate social change....
More at the link, if you can stand it.
Last line: CAMERAS IN THE CLASSROOMS. Teachers need to know that they are being watched. Ruining your children is not a privilege conferred by taking one of those "degrees."
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