Did you assume child abuse means sexual abuse? In fact, a lot of the instructional methods used in public schools constitute, not sexual, but cognitive abuse. (Siegfried Engelmann calls it “academic child abuse.” That’s where your brain and your personality are scrambled. You are not as effective in life.)
Here’s the point; if you teach Children in ways that don’t work very well, you are abusing that child. For example, if after years of reading instruction, students still can’t read, they have been robbed of their time and their future. Are these not criminal offenses?
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Cognitive abuse can be seen in reading, math, and all content subjects such as history, science, geography. Some methods get much better results. If the school uses the inefficient ways, that’s an abusive relationship. Here’s the bad news: this sort of abuse – academic and intellectual— is commonplace.
Sexual abuse is more traumatic and dramatic, more of a violation. On the other hand, cognitive abuse affects tens of millions of Americans, often for many years. It’s a vast silent plague.
Progressive education has, for 100 years, tried to mess with the brains of children. They are supposed to have certain attitudes, specific feelings, and a passion for being cooperative. Progressive educators, no matter how they are dressed, tend to be meddlers in white lab coats. They think it’s their prerogative to rewire children in order to reach ideological goals.
A lot of drugs are prescribed in public schools. Exercise is often limited. Cumbersome, hard-to-learn methods infect every classroom, especially in Common Core. Character is undermined in many ways.
Find a class that’s underperforming and you will probably find “academic child abuse.”
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QED: You cannot speak seriously about education reform if you do not try to eliminate all those practices which make children less than they might be.
https://republicstandard.com/finally-child-abuse-is-being-rooted-out-now-what-about-cognitive-abuse/
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