Hello.
I have been working on getting out my two podcasts, BasicEd and The Buried Lede. It’s a lot of fun. The BasicEd podcast is a bit longer and more in-depth on educational topics while The Buried Lede, also on education, is tracking more with current news items and my two cents on those. What I realized is I haven’t yet done an official newsletter. So here it is.
As you probably already know, I have been involved in teaching and tutoring school-age kids for several decades. I have been right there where the rubber meets the road. I’ve seen the overall decline in educational results in both public and private schools. I’ve also seen the turn away from traditional educational philosophy towards what I’ll just call woke ideology as a broad term to cover what’s happening in our schools.
The decline in American education is nearly a century in the making. A big part of that has been the labeling of children with invented learning disabilities and the harmful drugging of those children as a “remedy.” You can find out more about that in my BasicEd podcasts. However, it does appear the barbarians have breached the gates in recent years and brought things like critical race theory and drag queen storytelling along with them. If, as a parent, your hair is not already on fire, at this point it should be.
Some of you are fully armed warriors already in the battle but others may be new. Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or concerned citizen, your help is needed. Children are the future of our society and we must all do our part to ensure their success. That means finding out what is being taught to your kids or the kids in your community. It means finding out who is on the school board and making them own up to what is being taught and what they believe. It may require contacting your local or state government representatives.
A good place to start is knowing what your rights are, as a parent or citizen of your community. To help with that I am compiling a resource list of the places and people I consider all-stars in this fight. You’ll find it here: https://basiceducationseries.com/resources.
I will continue to produce information podcasts and basic educational material. In order to better help you, please let me know what you need and want from me. If there are specific topics you’d like me to address in podcasts or basic educational material that you need, reply with your requests and I’ll do my best to provide what you want. If I can’t, I’ll at least point you in the right direction.
For the kids,
Ed