The American Spectator
"And we wonder, when the moral and intellectual rot infects every level of a system which should have become a marketplace, if not an industry, 100 years ago or more, why we’re setting record levels of money on fire to produce armies of Darializa Avila Chevaliers and Laura Pinhos."
"I know, I know. The first half-dozen comments under this piece will provide the criticism that I shouldn’t use mealy-mouthed words like “almost” in a headline like the above.
Which is another way of saying that among the American Spectator’s readership, there isn’t a lot of dissent to the idea that our educational system, from bottom to top, has gone to seed.
"I will defend the use of “almost” only by noting that there are still educational institutions out there providing quality instruction. In virtually every city of size, there are at least a handful of options where kids won’t be indoctrinated into the kind of anti-American woke stupidity that has become virtually omnipresent in the public schools. And of course, there is the burgeoning panoply of resources available to homeschoolers, which stands as the silver lining to the mess we’re in.
"So I’ve now provided the justification for my hedge. And we can move on.
"To saying that the education system, chiefly in the public sector but certainly not limited to it, is beginning to calcify as a fundamental, existential threat to the American way of life.
"I could regale you with polling data and statistics showing the cavernous ignorance that our schools are infecting our youth with, but you almost certainly already know these things.
. . . "Darializa Avila Chevalier is about as total a poster child for American education as there is, given that she’s 32 years old and has never not been in school, including more than 14 years of post-secondary education, and with every utterance, she demonstrates that she knows literally less than nothing.
"And Chevalier has studied largely at competitive institutions — most notably Columbia — which at one time were known as centers of learning.
"Now Columbia produces communist Dominicans with genocidal attitudes toward Jews.
"And those lunatics with functionally room-temperature IQs are celebrated by fellow “highly-educated” and privileged urbanites in cities like New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles." . . .More...
Scott McKay is a contributing editor at The American Spectator and publisher of the Hayride, which offers news and commentary on Louisiana and national politics, and RVIVR.com, a national political news aggregation and opinion site.
