The following report is by The Trends Journal:
You don’t need to be an education professional to know that if you tell students they can no longer attend in-person classes for about three years they will face unprecedented challenges during their lifetime of education.
Statistics are just coming out now that prove our forecast that COVID lockdowns will lead to a degeneration of young minds in the U.S.
The Wall Street Journal, citing the National Assessment of Educational Progress, reported last week that math and reading performances among 13-year-olds in the country hit their lowest levels in decades. The report said 1990 was the last time math scores were so low, and 2004 for reading.
The report said 13-year-olds who took the NAEP exam last fall scored an average of 256 out of 500 in reading and 271 out of 500 in math.
This is a very serious matter. The big message here is it is a long road ahead of us.
Peggy Carr, head of the National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the tests, told USA Today.
Carr said it is unclear what the long-term issues will be because intervention does not seem to be helping the issue.
There are signs of risk for a generation.
She said.
Miguel Cardona, the U.S. education secretary, told the paper that the latest data is further evidence of what the Biden-Harris administration “recognized from Day One: that the pandemic would have a devastating impact on students’ learning across the country and that it would take years of effort and investment to reverse the damage as well as address the 11-year decline that preceded it.”
Chalkbeat, an education news website, noted that standardized tests are only one measure of academic achievement, but the scores do have some weight because they “are predictive of students’—and the country’s—success.”
One recent study found that state scores on a separate NAEP eighth-grade math test predicted high school graduation, adult income, and incarceration rates.
The report said.
The fourth and fifth grades are generally seen as foundational when it comes to acquiring reading and math skills—and these children would have been forced into a yearslong intellectual hibernation because of politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom.
Sean Reardon, a Stanford professor who studies education, told The New York Times that his research from 41 states found that schools are generally ill-equipped to deal with the issue that has, on average, left students in the U.S. a half a year behind in math studies and one-third a year lagging in reading. The problem is most pronounced in schools in dense locations.
“The worry,” he said, is that this “pandemic” exacerbated “educational inequality.”
TRENDPOST: It is discouraging to read articles like the one presented in The Wall Street Journal that continue to place blame on the “coronavirus pandemic” for wreaking such havoc and the country’s education system.
As Gerald Celente has long said, it was not the “pandemic” that forced your child to stay home, it was power-hungry politicians and the Silicon Valley tech bros.
Our 15 September 2020 issue’s Trend Forecast read:
“Under the New ABnormal, working parents must stay home as millions of children are being forced to learn online from home. The economic stress on parents in the world of the New ABnormal will prove costly.
“Furthermore, the added mental stress being imposed on children, who are, by the data, not victims of the virus, will instill them with fear while sapping their creativity.”
Since the beginning of summer 2020, political leaders in the U.S., backed by their health experts and amplified by a mainstream media glad to accommodate, have been putting forth the notion that schools are “super-spreader” environments requiring the need to be extremely cautious about reopening.
On 14 December 2021, when most students in the U.S. were returning to in-person classes, we published an article titled, “SCHOOLS: THE NEW ‘Abnormal.’”
We noted that schools around the U.S. reported experiencing increases in unruly behaviors such as talking in class, treating adults and one another disrespectfully, and strewing trash about, to more serious issues.
Peter Faustino, on the board of the National Association of School Psychologists, says that a normal full academic year’s worth of mental health and behavioral incidents have occurred in just the first three months of the current school year; “I think the pandemic was like an earthquake and I think we are seeing that tidal wave hit shore,” he said.
Stanford University, in collaboration with the Associated Press, found that the public school enrollment from kindergarten to twelfth grade has declined by 1.2 million students in the first two years of the outbreak, with home-schooling up by 30 percent. The Wall Street Journal said the study noted three possible explanations, including truancy, the jump in home-schooling, and a jump in toddlers skipping kindergarten.
The paper said it is “more worrisome” if children “decided that going to school is a waste, perhaps because they weren’t learning much.”
If many stopped going to school altogether, then the pandemic learning loss may be even greater than has been reported and may never be made up.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
It is an absolute travesty to see what has happened to the current wave of children coming up. They are literally getting hit with everything imaginable. If things were to remain on course at the current rate, these children are going to be so royally screwed up when they get older.
Kids Are Now Having Trouble Talking After Lockdowns And Masking
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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seems like its all bad news everywhere all day every day …. happiness and good news is now only found within the pages of the king james bible
Amen, Magnolia. Well, it’s the last of the last days and before we are caught up, it’s going to be ugly and grim, sadly. But we have a bright future ahead of us, Glory to God ALLELUIA!
I’d like to add-on to this article with my first hand experience. Somewhere in the beginning in 2022 I visited one of my former teachers to go and witness for the Lord. Somewhere in our conversation they brought up that they fearful because of the increase in violence amongst the youth, and that there have been also targeted attacks towards teachers; There have also been stories of sexual scandals, and destruction of school property by these same students.
I also had the chance to talk to some of the youth, and it shows that their mental development has been stunted by ~3 years- Seniors act like Freshman; Freshman act like 6th Graders. Additionally, anime is widely accepted by students- having children consuming Japanese cartoons that promote perversion, anti-social behavior, and living in fantasy is not something that you want mentally unstable kids consuming.
In Short: It’s over, the new generations are dejected, Godless, and hyper-violent.
Hitting on a quarter century of homeschooling & longer in independent learning & school of hard knocks have taught me to seriously question the ways in which the world measures ‘mastery’ or ‘achievement’. Their tests are a joke & contain many subjective socially measuring arbitrary questions having nothing to do with what they purport to measure or to prove.
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They promote and manipulate toward whatever their narrative or goals are, ultimately Christian biblically & glorifying God in truth or not. Charlotte Iserbyt documented these things beyond question with regard to the development of curriculum, and experience, exposure to their school ‘certification’ testing & so forth, has only made that more plain. Charlotte was/is(?) conservative humanist & spoke from that bias, but her facts stand as well as those mixed in with vanity amongst the liberals like Thoreau. The problem with humanists is what they think the solutions and salvation are because they’re unrepentant & too trusting of their own understanding.
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Children need good grounding in the basic operations of arithmetic and mathematics, & to see the character of God revealed in its changeless constancy, as well as to be prepared to function in meaningful, adult society; earn a living, grow in knowledge & fulfill the commission by the grace & power of God like everything else. It’s so very Romans 1 KJB. The Gentile, Greek philosophical mind, and the Jew, really, are always wanting to bend that toward the subjective & occult, & that becomes apparent as you teach their curriculums as a Bible believer.
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Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
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It has to do with their ‘quantum’ presumptions going beyond the word, the numbers & all reality into their pagan pretensions of divinity, re-creating etc like the spirit they serve…Isaiah 14 KJB. Men of faith with advanced math & arithmetic degrees…astrophysicists etc are under huge pressure to censor Christ in their professional lives, & those who would understand more can learn more on that by reading Gerardus Bouw, ‘Christianity in the Woodshed’ to get a taste on some of the paradoxes in science & math go.
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This touches on the fact that they purposely misteach some things in math early on, not touching on the more subjective until the obvious & real is mastered. It’s a bit like understanding that the Bible is a narrative & not a ‘cookbook’/spellbook, before the Schoolmaster leads us to the Gospel & Christ via the cross & faith….and to dispensational truth. Or like we learn of the history of God’s preserved word & method of preservation etc on a simplistic TR level, before the Lord moves believers on to the more challenging understanding that its an eclectic text, even a superior one (the King James): Psalm 138, 12; 1 Peter 1, 2 Peter 1 etc KJB.
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There must be knowledge and experience. Like Hebrews 4&5 speak of.
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AND, it has something to do with their binary & computing, digital stuff, too. Whole science & right reasoning aren’t so limited. It’s the usual selective censorship, ‘evolution’ etc ….and faster, easier, ‘other’ & the idea of getting away with something: a ‘hack’, that is the problem.
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The children will be fine, even after covid, if they leave them alone & their parents step up. You can use Singapore Math & others to teach better, but you won’t see the biblical connections to real life application unless you’re in the word& believing, allowing it to quicken, sharpen & teach. You’ll be but another proud humanist, worse, a nicolaitan, with more knowledge of Asian names& typical fruits etc & a thick layer of antichrist self-righteous do-gooder where men are the measure & focus of everything, saving the world. Social justice.
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God made us resilient, & by his grace we can continue & stand. We must do so without corrupting love or truth, & peacefully insofar as it lies with us. There’s a lot of room for math practice in the prepping, homesteading, Christian lifestyle….and that’s for certain sure. Along with science & the other literacies which all point to God, his existence, power & law when properly interpreted & understood.
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The heartbreak in our own family includes my youngest sister who was the first in our family to go on to ‘higher’ education rather than simply vocational & such trainings as the rest of us. She began with an education major at Francis Marion on a sports scholarship, became disenchanted with that major & changed to a business management major. Surrounded by women who’ve left the natural use, the bewitching is very calculating…very formulaic. Corruption & bondage.
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Anyways, in last family gathering when math & education came up, her comment was that we didn’t understand, that it had something to do with ‘binary’, and that those taught otherwise ‘wouldn’t be ready’, and ‘wouldn’t fit’. As usual, she went mum when pressed upon that. They always do, & it’s creepy, but real.
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I saw where some sorority recently changed their bylaws to allow a man pretending in a dress to ‘join’ them….and I thought on these things, the word, and how the la$civiou$ne$$ & willful ignorance & demoralization grew. A sort of open secret….and yet, occulted, like fighting blindfolded… How we need the light & guidance of the word & Spirit, & the armor.
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That won’t stop them from using this claim for their next big ‘rescue’ grabbing & defiling, grooming, initiating, sorting & eliminating /sacrificing children, of course….but watch they don’t get you thinking in their pattern & way even in the discussion or as educating your own or any others you can point toward the word & Christ through the truth that 2 + 2 is always 4, which doesn’t make sense in a supposedly ‘random’ world….or any other changeless truth.