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"Mr. Price,
I am a homeschooling mother and just stumbled, quite by accident, onto your site. I've bookmarked your site
so that I can revisit it because there is so much more that I want to read. HOW REFRESHING! I just wanted to say thank you.
Your articles are incredible and well-written. I am anxious to look into your recommended book list on Amazon, as well as
your own books. I feel like I have found a goldmine! Thank you again, LM" |
comment about Improve-Education.org left on CanadaFreePress.com
"This is one of the best sites I have found on the
internet concerning education. He explains why the schools are doing all of this damage.
I watched with frustration
what the schools tried to do to my children. We finally beat them by home schooling. If you keep your children out of the
public school system until they reach high school, it will be too late for the system to ruin them.
It seems like the focus is all about the kids who get 'left behind', with a constant emphasis on
lowering the standards so they can keep up. We are throwing away our best and brightest in the name of valuing diversity...
If you are a frustrated parent, understand you aren't alone. I learned this when an educator came to my workplace
to explain what a great job they were doing. The audience consisted of hundreds of engineers and technicians, one third of
whom had doctoral degrees. I have never seen such a hostile audience. A lone voice defended the school system. The rest of
us wanted blood. The speaker presented all of the wonderful things they had planned for our children. As the audience tore
his positions apart point by point, it became clear our objections were going right over his head. Even cold statistics didn't
faze him. Nothing would change his belief that he knew what was best for our children. I have since learned this attitude
is typical of the educational community.
The only way to reform the system is to remove control from these educators.
We must eliminate all of the centralization which has isolated the system from their true customers, the parents. Once the
individual schools are directly dependent on the parents, i.e. "if I remove my child, ALL funding moves with him",
they will finally return to listening to what the parents want. As long as control rests with state and federal agencies,
there will be no change." RT, Washington |
email to site "Thank you for posting your link on craigslist. I enjoyed reading your articles. I'm a home school mother
of four AND a college student seeking a degree in Communications Disorders and Special Education. With the pursuit of that
degree, I get to see a lot of what goes on behind the scenes at the public schools. The general public would be shocked to
know what kind of people are training up their children. It was nice to see that others have a more realistic view of public
education such as you have... Bright children are forced
to learn at a snail's pace and the ones who need the most intervention get it in the form of 'evidenced based practices' with
documentation in 'portfolios'. Many failing students advance from grade to grade. After all, they have proven in their portfolios
that they have been 'exposed' to the grade level materials. The school systems are not responsible for mastery...Again, teachers
are NOT required to teach children. They are only required to expose children to the grade level materials..." LM |
"I agree with this theory. I happened upon this article and Mr. Price's videos
as I was frustratingly trying to find tools to teach my son his Kindergarten sight words. My husband and I have been drilling
the poor child all week to memorize the 8 words for his assessment tomorrow. He remembers one minute and forgets the next.
He mixes words up because if he's learning them in order, he can't remember them unless they're in order. He guesses. It's
frustrating for him and angering for my husband and I. I've started to wonder -- will it get easier for him to memorize these
words? And I realize that the more words he gets, the more he'll have to memorize into perpetuity!!!! The frustrating, agonizing
process never ends! Plus, as he forgets words he thought he knew, he looses more and more confidence. I can see how he would
eventually grow to abhor school. Conversely, when I actuallly have him sound out the word using phonetics, he's empowered
to read other words that use similar phonetics and grows more confident! No more sight words -- I'm sticking with phonics!" anonymous comment
left on my article, on another site; a brief but remarkably complete illumination of the Reading Wars |
email to site "And Bruce,
again, all of the articles and videos that you have posted all over the
Web have become the vital tools that we so desperately
needed to come to this
decision in our children's lives. I'm glad that you are a crusader for the cause --
and a
passionate one at that. Please count us in on your mission! It saddens me
deeply being a mother to know that there are
children of all ages out there who are
suffering from being illiterate and also the ones being misdiagnosed with ailments
that they either don't have or are the results of being taught Sight Words. It's an
injustice no matter how you look
at it..." L, Mass. |
email to site "Dear
Bruce,
You have created an incredible body of work at www.Improve-Education.org. I stumbled across it this morning
while researching Rudolph Flesch.
Are you familiar with Aplied Scholastics program www.AppliedScholastics.org?
I've been involved with it for almost 40 years and I think there is a natural synergy between your work and theirs.
Thanks very much for everything you are doing in this important arena." GTF
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email to site "Hi Bruce,
I happened upon your website by searching on "john dewey marx." I am
writing to tell you how impressed I am with the site. It is unique and it is worthy. I am contemplating a second career in
education after many years in electronics and engineering. I am taking graduate classes in educational psychology at the University
of -- and I have been struggling to sort the wheat from the chaff. I am amazed to discover the degree to which a calcified
Marxist ideology has taken hold of the University. Sometime it seems like everything taught has a Marxist slant. I like to
believe that I am open to new ideas. Indeed, that is why am back in school, but I began to wonder if I was the only one who
sees Marxism as dogma passing itself off as wisdom.... To most young Americans Stalin is merely a fairy tale ogre and Marxism is just a bit of intellectual marijuana.
They don't undersatnd that Marx truly is "the opiate of the intellectuals" and that American Marxists are like bright
but naughty children who will tragically ignore the warnings of their parents and eat the poisoned candy offered by a stranger.
Oh well, forgive me for pontificating a bit. I sure enjoyed your website and hope that you keep fighting the good
fight.
All the Best and Merry Christmas,"
CL
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"Hello, I just read your article "The Truth About Dyslexia" and
subsequently checked out your website. I very much enjoyed what I've seen so far. I am the mother of a young man who struggles
with dyslexia. He has been successful in graduating high school and is now attending --- College. I have ordered one
of your books and most definitely will read more. Thank you....."
CY
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email to site "Dear Mr. Price,
I am amazed at the way you are able to explain the pure FRAUD that is going on in
our educational system today.
I spent 35 years trying to educate my fellow teachers why things were being done
the way they were.
I am asking for permission to repackage some of your articles as PDFs so I can easily redistribute
to my education group which you are welcome to join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/USPEIN
I am sure you
are familiar with Charlotte Iserbyt who while she traces it in a more political way as to the parties involved, has the same
contentions.
I especially like this quote from 1946 no less, 3 years before I was born.
Thanks!" Teacher, 35 years In the struggle to establish an adequate world government, the teacher has many parts to play... He can do much to
prepare the hearts and minds of children for global understanding and cooperation...At the very top of all the agencies which
will assure the coming of world government must stand the school, the teacher, and the organized profession. -- National
Education Association Journal, 1946 |
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