The Decline of Knowledge
By Will B. Winners, author of the book In the Land of Deceit
It is not surprising that any person younger than 60 would not probably become aware that the younger American generation is being deprived of important knowledge due to the trend towards liberalism and the fake progressive movement of the left side of the political arena. The reason behind the decline could be an increase in the number of school administrators whose intelligence quotient may be on the left side of the bell curve and who have been brainwashed in college by left-leaning professors who lack the logical-mathematical intelligence described by psychologist Howard Gardner.
One way to certainly become aware of the problem is to be a primary or secondary school teacher. In many public school districts there has been a trend, during the last 10 years, toward giving bonuses to school principals based upon the number of students graduating. As you can imagine, in some poorly rated schools their principals have been presented with a dilemma: Be honest and fail students that do not perform, or cheat by passing failing students and actually override the grades and erase the absences so that the number of graduates increases exponentially.
Several of my friends, who have been teaching in secondary schools for many years, have vented their frustrations to me by narrating the events they have witnessed in public schools: Students being allowed to keep their mobile telephones in classrooms so that they can cheat and get better grades, principals and some assistant principals erasing as many as 20 absences from students, principals overriding the final grades to students who failed the courses, principals delaying the setup of classrooms for students who are issued detentions, principals and assistant principals failing to enforce disciplinary rules, teachers of liberal arts and cooking courses regularly allowing students that are cutting class to core subjects (such as math and science) to stay in their classrooms during the periods, teachers giving students the questions to final examinations three days before the date of the exam, etc.
It is obvious that the worst outcome of such behavior on the part of educators is the bigger lessons the students are learning: It is fine to cheat, it is fine to cut classes, it is fine to take it easy. But more shocking is the fact that principal and assistant principals involved in the cheating have been the ones promoted, since their schools graduated more students than other schools.