Pulling Back the Curtain on STEM
As I shared on my very first post here on Substack, April 6, 2023, the history of education reforms in the United States is a bleak one. Public Education has proven 100% resilient to any reforms. A major reason being is they are always somehow politically motivated. A free public education run by the state is never really free. Fast forward from the industrial revolution to America at the supposed End of the Cold War. Then President George Bush called the governors together because our students were testing behind our competitors. This led to Common Core, which was all about making schools and teachers accountable. Playtime was over. It was in the end, the greatest dumbing down ever in education reform. And, you guessed it, American students dropped even further. Last year 2022 we were 27th in the world. Despite Common Core’s failures, only 5 states have abolished it in their state and created different standards and assessments.
It was this perceived inability to educate our children for the new demands of the twenty-first century, for the information age that also spurred the interest in and implementation of S.T.E.M.curricula ( science, technology, engineering and math) for K-12. It was and remains a seemingly, logical,reasonable, and desirable reform. Afterall, we all want our students tohave good-paying jobs and not have to work at McDonald’s their entire lives. But when you pull back the curtain, STEM is more brainwashing students in scientism and transhumanism, than it is helping them to develop those skills