You know it’s bad when the young, eager teachers who want to “make a difference” bail from the profession. There are a few reasons for this, and lately many of these young people have gone on TikTok and other social media venues to explain what is going on.
Here is the transcript, courtesy of Turboscribe:
Having a short podcast here at the end of the month, welcome everybody to Mount Vernon High School, Room 108, Education Forensics, The Freelance Teacher, Inc., TFT Travel Academy, sponsoring all of this content, as always, thank you very much. There are many videos out recently, particularly, but not exclusively, on Twitter. I've seen people, students and friends, and relatives show me clips on TikTok, where you have a teacher, usually a young teacher, talking about how they're leaving the profession.Now that's a little weird, because you have young idealistic people who want to, quote-unquote, make a difference, or they want to help young people.
.These are noble goals, and these are things that young people, as I was one of those once, are usually part of the deal when it comes to teaching, because particularly if you stay, it's because there's some kind of inner compass, oftentimes there's some kind of inner motivation, like you want to help some of the young folks that haven't gotten the help they need in whatever subject you're working in. So it's a little odd, it's not veteran teachers, I'm not going on Twitter and barking about the young kids and telling everybody when I'm retiring, and kids these days, I'm not doing that.
I'm 53, I have a schedule, I've been teaching since 1996, but to have a young person, the latest one I saw was a young black woman, and she was lamenting on how she didn't plan on it, but she was leaving the education business, the school business, because she had initially wanted to do what young people want to do, like I mentioned, help maybe break the cycle with some of these students, where they can crawl out of dire situations and advance themselves and their families by being intellectual powerhouses, and not just getting good jobs, but being able to navigate the many headwinds that often come, particularly in some of the more distressed neighborhoods, and she was saying she's quitting, and she talked about many things, but one of them was how the students have very little skill, and that is something that I've covered with you a lot.
How much reading is your daughter doing? How many times, and for me the answer is many, many, I've heard people talk about how their children usually, but not always their daughters, were big time readers, and then they hit teenager status, and TikTok, and phone, and instant gratification, and the reading, particularly in books, paper books, went down to almost, if not totally zero. I have this battle with my youngest now.So she was mentioning how students don't know very much, and haven't been asked to do very much. She was teaching eighth or ninth grade, it was right around the age where I'm working with, and she said that she was told, and she saw many students just getting passed along, and this is now common.
The advancement, social promotion used to be the debate.That debate doesn't happen anymore. People are only, students are only socially promoted, and then sometimes, even in a school like mine, the ask is very subtle. We're not directly told, but so many safety valves are in place to socially promote students, but we have students who have been obviously socially promoted.They don't begin a sentence with a capital letter. They don't put a period at the end of a sentence.
I had a student the other day tell me she didn't know the beginning of the story because she was absent that day, even though the story is linked and read aloud and printed in our education software Schoology, but she wasn't there that day, so she doesn't know the beginning.
Well, look at it when you get home. Look at it on your own time. Look at it at lunch.So anyway, the young woman in the video, I saw it on Twitter, but it was originally on TikTok. She was talking about how students don't know anything. That was one.She was lamenting at how small their worlds are, and they have no knowledge base. The other one is they're socially promoted. They are just placed in her classroom, even though they don't deserve it, which is doubly difficult because now you have somebody who not only is intellectually incapable of handling the material, but feels that he or she should be moving on to the next level really no matter what happens.And that really bothered her.
And then the reason why I'm bringing this up now is because she mentioned how students don't have a lot of desire to learn. Now, I call that intellectual curiosity.I've been talking about it now for a few years. Regular listeners to this and readers of this site know that I find that most disturbing. Students don't want to know anything.They don't have any desire to know. It doesn't have to be the things that I'm interested in, but just to learn things and find some stuff interesting seems to be a foreign concept. Some of that is the testing industrial complex, right? You're there to pass the test, get a good grade, quote, unquote, get a good job, watch videos, do as you're told, shut the hell up, vote for one of two political parties, just the usual nonsense New World Order control because they want a herd of sheeple.I mean, this is the kind of stuff we've talked about before, but it was noteworthy because this young lady, it bothered her. She really was almost offended and she just couldn't take it anymore. And it was because students, they just didn't want to know.
They had no innate desire to learn stuff. And, you know, you start to wonder, and this is going to be reasonably short, comparatively short, actually, because one of the things that I always think about is in the conspiratorial way that my mind works is why would somebody, why would anybody or any group or any conspiratorial eye of Sauron, top of the pyramid, New World Order group, want these things to happen? Because there's an easy fix, and that is have rigid standards.
And if someone doesn't pass, they just don't pass.And it'll be a bloodbath for a couple of years, and then everyone will get the message. And if you're going to do school, you're going to need to work. And you don't penalize staff or administration.
Yes, I said administration. You don't penalize them for failure rates. As a matter of fact, a high failure rate means that your school is doing the job correctly.Maybe we should incentivize failure rates. And if the higher the failure rate, the more money your school gets. That would be something.It's a fantasy, but it sure would be kind of fun to watch. But that's the thing where, you know, you change all of these things. Right now, a school loses big if they have a high failure rate.So they try to get everyone to pass. No one talks about social promotion.
And you have what this young teacher was having to deal with.And it's bad. And so I go to, like I was mentioning, what is the goal? And I find adults, oftentimes naive, thinking, oh my gosh, that's a conspiracy. You mean there's a group at the top who control things? And oh, what? That could never happen.Someone would talk. First of all, A, they talk all the time.
You will own nothing and you will like it, was a tweet by the head of the World Economic Forum.
I mean, they tell you exactly what they want. It's just that you don't listen because you're, I don't know what you're doing when you're not listening to me. But they, you know, every intelligent person has had some vague semblance of an idea that there are people at the top who want to manage the herd.And it comes in various forms. Someone I respect, I think, I think her theory is there are 12 people, wouldn't it 12, of course, and they get together and they run the world, which is actually probably closer to the truth than the people who say these things don't exist. But I digress.So why do this? And it's something because I invest in energy and energy is tied to government policy and politics.
This latest thing came across my vision and it fit weirdly, bear with me, and neatly with my premise that they want a lot of people just to be walking around, breathing through their mouths, unable to, unable to, not willing to, but unable to pay attention and focus. And you had Bono, I think he was on the Joe Rogan show, the lead singer of U2.And Bono, again, I believe, don't quote me, but I believe it was on Joe Rogan. And he was talking about how since USAID has been cut under the Trump administration, naturally, of course, he's anti-Trump, 300,000 people have died around the world.
Here's where the education stuff, here's what the lady on TikTok was talking about.If you are a thoughtless, ahistorical, short video watching stooge, an intellectual cockroach, as we used to say at Mount Vernon High School, then you are like, oh my God, the cutting of USAID is bad. And the people in charge are bad. That's terrible.
You react emotionally, period, end of story. And you vote, think, post, write, speak the way that they quote unquote, they want you to. But if you're an intellectually curious person, you ask yourself, first of all, where does that information come from? How'd you get to 300,000 in a world of, what are we up to, 7 billion, something like that, whatever the official numbers are.How do you get 300,000? Where'd that number come from? And where are these people you're talking about? Not only do you do that, but you'll like, hey, wait a minute, Bono, lead singer, you too. You have hundreds of millions of dollars at your disposal and a huge amount of influence. Why don't you individually help those 300,000 people? You can help them in many ways.If you know it's 300,000, therefore you know where they are, why don't you do something instead of shill like a stooge and a person formerly worthy of respect.
Why don't you do something about it instead of asking me or anybody else in the United States to take care of the rest of the world? What business is it for the United States to rumble on in there and quote unquote, take care of people?
These are questions that a thinking person would ask. And the students in the ladies TikTok class have been engineered in the school system not to think that way.They've been engineered not to think at all. So Bono and his, you know, just hugely ridiculous shilling for the deep state comes across as a moron to anybody who's thoughtful because you can't have it both ways. Is the United States, again in college they teach that it's just a bunch of, you know, just a bunch of other white guys coming in, colonialists, hugely destructive.
These are western people and they don't belong in other parts of the world and they should get out. Oh, oh, but except when USAID gets disemboweled, then it's a problem. Well, which one is it? Again, something that a thoughtful person who can spot logical fallacies would ask.
And so this is the kind of stuff that is the reason why you have what you have in front of you where you see something like this. You have a major league sized podcast with millions of followers, watchers and listeners. You have Bono, a multi, multi-millionaire for singing and performing.And he's now the expert on USAID and telling people that 300,000 people have died since they dismantled what was a complete, completely corrupt color revolution, fomenting anti-US taxpayer, anti-poor arm of the deep state. The color revolutions in all these countries are not organic. None of them were organic. They were all staged and USAID was one of, and the main one in the last couple of decades, vehicle for the slush fund to do these kinds of things. In the old days, it was other deep state actors. You can read Dark Alliance if you want to read about how it was done in the 1980s and the early nineties.
But right now it's USAID. It's 35 years later and Bono is sobbing and wanting you to weep and react emotionally like an, like a empty vessel puppet thinking, oh my gosh, 300,000 unnamed people, unknown have died since they got rid of it. And this is the kind of thing that they can get away with if you have the intelligence of a house plan.Lastly, and last question that any thinking person asks is when the United States budget debt slash deficit, yearly deficit budget debt implodes and the American dollar takes a big hit and the economy takes a monstrous hit because we have fake money, a managed fake economy, a lot of fakeness.
When that, but you can't spend more than you pull in in the first place and you really can't spend more than you pull in. If you have fiat currency like we do, which an intelligent person knows what I'm talking about with how American money is created.So we have both bad things when it implodes, they're going to be more than 300,000 lives affected. I'll just leave it at that.
The number of deaths attributed globally, you could probably go with nationally to the implosion of the American economy.300,000 is going to be a number you want. It's going to be worse.
But no, Bono of course isn't being asked about that.He certainly isn't talking about it because his marching orders are to talk to the future voters, thinkers, social media posters, citizens in this young lady on TikTok's class who have been intellectually engineered not to think. They've never been exposed to reading deep thoughtful books and they haven't been exposed to logical fallacies or how to craft the right question.
Because if you can ask the right question, you become dangerous.They don't have to worry about you. They don't have to worry about questions if your questions are superficial, shallow, and based on emotion. But if they're thoughtful, deep, and wonderful, you become a threat.
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