Why can’t students read or behave in class? In this interview, two English teachers discuss how modern educational trends are actually scams that destroy literacy and promote bad behavior.

This problem has been brewing for decades! It all started with the push towards “student centered learning” instead of the more traditional teacher directed models! Teachers have been forced to create cooperative learning groups while giving students a “voice and choice”, yet test scores keep plummeting!

Phonics has been abandoned in favor of the whole language model, and certain “thought leaders” like Lucy Calkins have changed reading instruction for a vast majority of schools! Programs such as Fountas and Pinnell and Reading Recovery have contributed to the literacy crisis, yet teachers are silenced. These issues contribute to out of control classroom behavior.

Traditional discipline measures have been abandoned in favor of programs like PBIS, but these programs don’t work in most schools. Social Promotion (where everyone graduates regardless of effort) is now considered the answer to achieving equity, and schools are dumping massive amounts of time and money into Social Emotional Learning, yet behavior and academics continue to decline.

Teachers are pressured to become “edutainment” performers, and we are not respected as experts in our own classrooms. We have to start asking the right questions! Where is the research? Who benefits from this crisis? Will we continue to watch as Gen Z (and Alpha) declines?

We will talk about all this and more! Stay tuned!

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