Disappearing Students Syndrome (DSS): A phrase created by me to describe a phenomenon taking place across the United States, affecting both privately and publicly funded schools, from Kindergarten all the way through University levels.
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”-George Orwell (aka Eric Arthur Blair)
TheAtlantic: A growing body of research debunks the idea that school quality is the main determinant of economic mobility.
AmericanSpectator: “Personalized learning” is warping our children’s education.
Reason.com: College Isn’t Higher Education
WashingtonPost: Americans without college degrees showed greatest gains in wealth since 2013
Bloomberg: Despite a supposedly improving economy More Americans Are Falling Behind on Student Loans
Universities and colleges across the U.S. affected by the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) scandal, as the FBI hit basketball coaches, and sponsor Adidas, with corruption charges. Other coaches have been forced to take time off. The three year investigation revealed massive bribery of colleges and universities by professional teams and sport apparel makers. The Federal Bureau of Investigation also ordered sport sponsor Nike to turn over financial documents relating to the Elite Youth Basketball League.
Incomplete list of publicly announced education related layoffs, shutdowns and education crimes, September 2017:
Arkansas: A female teacher at Marked Tree High School accused of having sex with students from two school districts, if convicted could spend 40 years in prison.
California: ‘Muslim’ Zaytuna College is now the proud owner of the 65 years old Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, in Berkeley. In contrast to ‘christian’ colleges, Musilm colleges are experiencing rapid growth in enrollment. Los Angeles County district attorney filed money laundering charges against the LA School Board president! UC Irvine quietly removed homeopathy from its online list of medical services, as part of a new medical program called integrative medicine. Air medevac was called in for Modesto High School after students collapsed when they ate some brownies. Yep, the brownies were made with a powerful form of ganja. Local news media reported that the naive parents were shocked that “marijuana brownies were at school.” A Bullard High School teacher now charged with using drugs to sexually assault students. After 39 years, advocate of making San Francisco a “literary city” Aardvark Books forced to shutdown by the new property owner: “Everyone seems to want the cat, so the cat will be fine. Yet no one is looking for homes for the employees.”-David Lugn, soon to be former manager
Colorado: A former honor student is accusing Delta High School of violating the U.S. 1st Amendment by deliberately dumbing down students’ grades based on their religious beliefs, thereby preventing those students from qualifying for college scholarships: “Not only did they change her grades, they took away her recommendations and they ostracized her!”-Jeffrey Springer, attorney
Apparently administrators with Delta High School, which is a public school not private, claimed they could impose their ‘christian’ beliefs on students because the school did not receive federal tax dollars.
Connecticut: School district’s across the state warning of mass layoffs due to a pending 40% cut in state taxpayer funding!
Florida: The Brevard County School Board wants to rezone the district, affecting at least 1-thousand students. It’s their way of addressing enrollment problems, but will take five years and cost taxpayers at least $40-million USD.
Georgia: Two students at Orrs Elementary School were accused of being members of the KKK because they stood and recited the pledge of allegiance. It turns out the teacher instigated the name calling by telling the students how bad it was to stand for the pledge of allegiance, and according to local news media she even said ‘she would never stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and that if she did stand she would not really mean it.’ After the two students were bullied the teacher supposedly apologized for what she instigated. A former junior high school gym teacher was arrested for having sex with a student, for a second time. Investigators say the woman had sexual relations with students while at Union County Middle School. Albany State University nursing students are having so much trouble getting government loans to pay for new higher tuition (caused by the merger of Albany State and competitor Darton College) that they are now beggaring the local population for help: “My tuition used to be $1,400 and now it is $2,100!”-Nancy Collier, interview with WALB
Idaho: In Mormon dominated Jefferson School District 251 parents demanded George Orwell’s 1984 be banned for its sexual content. After an even bigger outcry from those who objected to such a violation of the U.S. 1st Amendment, school administrators stated “…it is simply not true that 1984 has been banned at Rigby High School.” State law requires that high schools help students develop a four years plan to prep for college, but an investigation by East Idaho News says it ain’t happening. Counselors admitted they don’t have the staffing or financial resources to comply with state law.
IdahoEdNews reporting that the number of new teacher hires who do not have a teaching degree is at record highs, due to the fact there is a massive teacher shortage in The Gem State.
Illinois: The former superintendent of Lincoln-Way High School District 210 was charged with embezzlement in a federal court. Federal prosecutors say he misused taxpayer bond money on personal projects, as well as stealing vacation money and giving himself bonuses which he was not entitled to. He pled not guilty. Whitney Young High School canceled their football season due to injuries and not having the required number of players on the team.
Massachusetts: The chairman of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education accused of donating at least $600-thousand USD to competing charter schools, and those charter schools did not publicize the donations as required by law.
Michigan: Farmington Public Schools under investigation for ‘inappropriately confronting’ a sixth grade student for refusing to stand during the pledge of allegiance. The student’s parents say their son was “violently snatched” out of his chair.
Mississippi: The Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review accusing the state Department of Education of handing out taxpayer funded contracts without the required biding process.
New York: Technical Career Institute College of Technology suddenly shutdown its NYC location, 211 jobs gone instantly! Geneseo Police Department and Livingston County Sheriff’s Office accusing Geneseo High School of doping-up their football players with OxyContin before games! More than $22-thousand USD in PTA money has disappeared from the Charles Lindbergh Elementary School, police are investigating. 15 women now accuse Catholic Holy Cross school of sexually abusing students between 1973 and 1994, “in unimaginable ways”.
Pennsylvania: The privately run Lest We Forget Black Holocaust Museum and Traveling Exhibit suddenly shutdown: “We’ve been struggling to keep the doors open for years. But with rising taxes we were not able to hold onto the building and we were bought out, we were essentially gentrified out of our building.”-Gwen Ragsdale, co-owner who also says they’re hoping to find a new home
Tennessee: A Knoxville woman pled guilty to having sex with high school football players when her husband was the coach at South-Doyle High, she could be sentenced to 38 years in prison, one parent got suspicious when her sons began living with the coach and his wife.
Utah: Alpine School District wants to shutdown two elementary schools due to crashing enrollments in Orem.
Virginia: The 158 years old Averett University suddenly laid off 12 people due to crashing enrollments.
Washington: Bellingham Police revealed they’re investigating a Silver Beach Elementary School teacher for sexually assaulting a second grade student.
Dumbing Down, August 2017: “WE MOVED QUICKLY AND QUIETLY.”