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“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Whatever is taught today in school will be in the Government tomorrow.” — Abraham Lincoln

Our founders said repeatedly, the most important topics for Americans to learn in schools are: Reading, Writing, Math, morality, thinking, Finance and Civics. What is NOT being taught in school today: Reading, Writing, Math, morality, thinking, Finance and Civics.

Today, whenever anyone asks the WHY question as a follow up, the answer is always the same: because that is not being taught in SCHOOLS.

When liberty is not learned, it is forgotten.

How can you fight for something you know nothing about?

Why are these subjects no longer taught in school? Because the global elite wants to rule. If you understood the constitution, you would know that the people were meant to have the power, not the elites. They must answer to you.

BY KEEPING YOU IGNORANT, THEY RULE

Nothing is more pitiful than the “No Kings” rallies. The military was created to keep America King-free. Because these people are ignorant, who do they hate? The military. Who do they support? The countries with Kings.

The true purpose of school is to create worker bees that are only capable of following directions, not capable of making decisions. By telling the people the purpose of school is to provide work is nothing but a cover-up for training worker bees to work in some mindless, soulless government-sanctioned corporation. The purpose of school is to provide knowledge, so individuals can make their own informed decisions. School to work, No Child Left Behind, Common Core Standards are all “training” which eliminates choice.

Ask yourself, why have the globalists designed the decline of America? Why are they supporting the illegals and not Americans? Illegals come in from countries where the things we view as necessities, they view as luxuries. Whoever provides those luxury items to them gets their allegiance forever, or, so they assume.

Then we have the sheeple who must vote as mommy or daddy did without accepting the fact that the parties have changed.

Ask yourself, with all of the money we spend on education, why is there so little to no change? No improvement? At all? In fact, overall ratings for U.S. education have declined. Could it be because we are addressing the wrong problem? The problem is the curriculum.

From elementary school to college, students are not taught HOW to think. They are taught WHAT to think.

They are not taught about America’s riches and opportunities. They are taught to do more for less or to do without. They are not taught about morality, family, God and country. Instead, they are told what to think and to think that only the government and schools have the answers.

School replaces family
Government replaces God
America is replaced by the UN

Is that the life and future you want for your child? No? Then get involved.

NOW is the TIME.

If you believe certain left wing commentators, you would think that protestors/rioters were trying to promote “due process” & “justice”. That is just a lie spread by the media and government schools. SkyNews Australia revealed that the globalists supported violence:

THEY WANT TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT.

The Globalists tell their followers that America stole land from Mexico and it must be returned. They say Israel must return its land without knowing to whom or the names of the river and sea they reference. It is amazing to me how little the protestors know about the cause they claim to protest. It is sad to witness their ignorance, but even worse, when you realize it is the globalists/communists that created this whole mess.

DARK MONEY

On today’s show you will learn how Dark Money has taken over our elections. You will also learn that most of the dark money comes from We the People through our tax dollars giving grants to NGOs. You will learn the corruption in Florida politics. If you want to go deeper, I suggest you sign up on Data Republican where you will discover how money flows through government grants, charities and NGOs. Then call your legislators and tell them to stop the money train to destruction.

GET MAD!

How does this work. Lets use Bill Kristol as an example: Bill Kristol, gets money from the deep state. He is listed as the President of Defending Democracy (EIN 831567380) which is an indirect beneficiary of USAID through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

From Data Republican:

FYI Bill Kristol is the President of DEFENDING DEMOCRACY TOGETHER INSTITUTE. He gets money from taxpayer grants.

FUNDING IS FUNGIBLE!!! That means USAID DOLLARS DO NOT LITERALLY FLOW INTO THESE NGOS!!!

INSTEAD, THE MONEY MOVES THROUGH MULTIPLE LAYERS!

VARIOUS ENTITIES HANDLE IT, SHUFFLE IT AROUND, AND REDISTRIBUTE IT!

So instead of obsessing over individual grants and NGOs, OPEN YOUR EYES to the BROADER PATTERN of FUNDING DISTRIBUTION and INFLUENCE!

And YES—layers of UNACCOUNTABILITY exist!

WHO’S TRULY DEPENDENT ON USAID?!

The ones who DON’T want it to be shut down!

THIS IS COMMON SENSE!!! THIS IS NOT TAUGHT IN SCHOOL!

Keep calling legislators. It works. GOP-led House ends DC sanctuary city policy

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I have frequently written that the two most important objectives of our K-12 education system:

a) should be clearly spelled out, and

b) should be consistent from State to State.

So far neither of these have happened — so the continued decline of our K-12 education system should be no surprise.

What are the two most important objectives of our K-12 education system? That graduates be properly educated so that they are:

1) proficient in the 3Rs (reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic), plus

2) critical thinkers.

I have repeatedly discussed the Critical Thinking part (e.g., here and here), but not as much the 3R aspect (as it seemed obvious). That said, I came across a wonderful commentary about the reading element of the 3Rs that I’m passing on. Thanks to Willis Eschenbach and his excellent “Illiteracy and Crime: A Dangerous Connection” which is posted below. I’ll add future commentaries about the other two R’s if I find the right material…

Here are a couple of depressing statistics.

About 20% of Americans are functionally illiterate, meaning they lack the reading skills necessary to navigate many everyday tasks, such as reading instructions, filling out forms, or understanding basic written information
About 70% of prisoners in US jails are functionally illiterate.

Clearly, illiteracy paves the road to jail. And this is understandable. If you can’t read, write, add, or subtract, there aren’t a whole lot of options for staying alive that don’t involve crimes of some sort.

We desperately need to fix this.

The first step is to reform our educational system. Here’s how crazy it’s gotten. In Oregon, they had a problem with functionally illiterate and innumerate kids being prevented from graduating from high school because they couldn’t pass the required 12th-grade English and math tests.

So did they improve the schools? Did they require further education for the teachers? Did they investigate which English and Math teaching methods work better than others? Did they institute special programs to bring the slower learners up to speed?

Get real. Oregon is a very blue state filled with the finest Democrats available. Here’s their solution.

They abolished the requirement that the kids have to pass the tests. They let anyone graduate, even if they can’t read one word.

That madness is happening in schools all over the US—keeping graduation rates up by simply lowering the standards. It’s not just Oregon. For example, Detroit has the highest functional illiteracy rate among high school graduates in the United States. According to research, only 18% of Detroit public school students demonstrated reading proficiency in the 2020–2021 academic year, and just 5% of 8th-grade Detroit students scored at a “proficient” level on the 8th-grade NAEP reading test.

As a result, the overall literacy rate in Detroit is approximately 47%, meaning that more than half of the city’s population is functionally illiterate. And surprise, surprise, Detroit also has one of the highest crime rates in the US. As I said above, illiteracy paves the road to jail.

So that lunacy has to stop. The best way to stop it is to make the tax money follow the STUDENT, not the SCHOOL. That way, the schools will have to compete to attract students by improving programs, conditions, and outcomes. In addition, it will encourage homeschooling. 74% of homeschooled students go on to attend college, compared to 44% of public school students.

Next, we need to institute a program to teach reading, writing, and life skills (budgeting, balancing a checkbook, communication, time management, etc.) in every prison in the nation. Yes, it will cost money, but I suspect that a number of people would volunteer to teach those subjects in prison if their safety could be guaranteed. And to make it work, we need to offer incentives to the prisoners to engage in the program.

As an example, in Brazil, there’s a program called “Redemption through Reading” (Remição pela Leitura).

For each book they read from an approved list and report on, inmates can reduce their sentence by four days, up to a maximum of 48 days per year. This initiative aims to promote education and rehabilitation within the prison system.

It seems to me that some variant of that system could be instituted to teach not just reading but math and the other life skills that the prisoners lack. This will give them the tools that they need to be able to survive without stealing.

Anyhow, that’s where my monkey mind has been wandering this Saturday evening. My very best to everyone — Willis Eschenbach

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