Connecticut's Public Education Crisis Needs A Solution

 There are many problems with Connecticut's public education.  An education that is provided by local governments from Kindergarten through 12th grade for all children.  At one time Connecticut had a strong public education system.  It stressed a coherent pattern of subjects that guided a student in his or her learning journey, building from one grade to the next with the skills and tools essential to learn many different subjects, many different skills and many different learning tools.  The student would gain a strong education that would prepare them when they graduated High School.  At one time, our public schools graduated students who had a strong balance of knowledge in many different subject areas such as the Arts, English, a Foreign Language including Latin, History, Physical/Health Education, Math, Music, Science, and Social Science.  Students were taught how to analyze, logically think, and the function of decision making and its consequences.  There was a respect between students and teachers along with a great deal of parental involvement and responsibility found in the schools.  Some students went to college, some students went on to learn a trade, some students did fail, but for the most part those who wanted to learn did and excelled in their lives be it with a college degree or a working trade.  Students went on to marry and raise families and the cycle of life moved forward.  Connecticut and America were able to move forward from generation to generation.

What happened?  In 2022 we are facing a complete implosion of our public education system.  It is failing at all grades and at all levels. It has evolved into an indoctrination of an incoherent mess of illogical liberal thought that features gender change, critical race theory, white supremacy, a rewritten history to fulfill a socialistic agenda, biological boys competing against girls in sports, an obsession about sexual orientation, and a total lack of respect and regard for the parents of school aged children.   Teachers are chosen based on their religion, political belief, and race rather than their abilities to actually teach.  This has been admitted through the recent exposure of the prejudice in hiring practices in Greenwich, CT.  Students during the Covid-19 crisis missed almost two years of school with online learning and the mandatory mask mandate they had when attending schools in person.  The lack of learning along with both the physical and psychological damage done to our children because of these draconian measures will be felt for decades.   Inner city schools are a horrific mess with many students failing in the classroom only to be passed on to the next grade while many inner city students have stopped going to schools all together.  And inner city school administrators apparently are at a loss to do anything about this.  Thus our public school systems are failing our students, our parents, the Connecticut Taxpayers who have to pay taxes to support this education debacle and our society as a whole by graduating ill equipped and ill prepared students.  

What are the solutions, if any?  The line seems to have been drawn in the sand with regards to Connecticut's public education system.   The Connecticut Democrat Party led by Ned Lamont want to continue indoctrination into a incoherent mess of illogical liberal thought that features gender change, critical race theory, white supremacy, a rewritten history to fulfill a socialistic agenda, biological boys competing against girls in sports, an obsession about sexual orientation, and a total lack of respect and regard for the parents of school aged children.   The union that represents public education teachers seem also to back this agenda as they have not spoken out against it.  The Connecticut Republican Party with Gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski has offered an alternative with their courageous "Parental Bill of Rights" (bobforgovernor.com/2022/09/06/stefanowski-devlin-announce-parental-bill-of-rights/).  This platform is a start towards a solution in bringing back a more coherent and functional public education system by once again empowering parents over the raising of their children from more school choices such as magnet, charter and technical schools to decision about health and care for their children.  To me it is a breath of fresh air as common sense can start to be brought back for parents, students and the public education system.  Again this is a start, and I recommend all to read it.  The condemnation of this platform by Ned Lamont and his Democrat Party was expected.  But remember that Ned Lamont and his Democrat Party has nurtured this education debacle and embrace its failures.  Ned Lamont and his Democrat Party wish to control our children and make them enmesh and entrap these failed liberal ideas that are damaging our state and country.  Why have so many parents pulled their children out of public schools over the past two years?

As someone who has taught college level students for 40 years now I have seen a general decline in students as to both their learning skills and an ability to learn.  I have many students who are successful in class but sadly I have many who are not.  What is public education trying to teach?  To me it is no longer a strong balance of knowledge in many different subject areas, but an incoherent rhetoric that does nothing to prepare our children for their future.  Connecticut and our country in general will be hard pressed in the future if public education continues on this failed politically correct curriculum.  We will fast become a nation that is bankrupt as far as careers, technical skills, and family values.  Our economy will not be functioning.  Are these the children we want as our future leaders?  I do not think so.

Parents must raise their children.  Government should not be raising our children.  Public schools should not be brainwashing our children.  Children must be able to have a coherent environment in order to learn and to be able to think.  This are not theories these are facts.  Those who teach and are experts in their field should be hired even if they are Catholic or conservative.  Once again we have yet another example of failed Connecticut Democrat Party policies.  The system is broken and needs to be repaired immediately.  Children are not pawns of our political system.

And guess who has to clean up their debris and rubble?  We know it will not be Ned Lamont and his Democrat Party.  And it is 1776 all over again.