07/04/20
Vào ngày 20 tháng 1 năm 2017, TT Trump tuyên bố rằng Hoa Kỳ có một hệ thống giáo dục cuốn hút tiền mặt nhưng tạo ra những sinh viên trẻ và xinh đẹp bị tước bỏ mọi kiến thức. - “an education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.”
Hôm Thứ Sáu vừa qua, tại Đài tưởng niệm quốc gia Mount Rushmore ở South Dakota Ngài Tổng thống đă chỉ trích hệ thống giáo dục công cộng của Mỹ một cách quyết liệt hơn, nói rằng theo quan điểm của ông ta, các trường học công ở Mỹ đang dạy học sinh thù ghét đất nước với chủ nghĩa phát-xít cực tả, đ̣i hỏi sự phục tùng tuyệt đối.
Nếu không nói ngôn ngữ của nó, thực hiện nghi lễ của nó, theo thần chú của nó, làm theo điều răn của nó sẽ bị kiểm duyệt, bị trừng phạt, bị liệt vào danh sách đen, bị bức hại và trừng trị. (schools are teaching kids to “hate our country” with a “far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance." “If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished”
Tổng thống Donald Trump được rất đông người Việt (đa số trên 65 tuổi) coi như thần thánh, nào là anh minh, nào là vĩ nhân, nào là người của Đức Chúa Trời.. nên những ǵ Ngài nói, tui là một ông già VN trên 70 ngu dốt nên càng “sùng kính” nghe theo.
Tuy nhiên, theo tui được biết số học sinh học trường tư thục (private school) ở Mỹ là con nhà giàu, và chỉ chiếm khoảng 10% học sinh toàn quốc, số c̣n lại đều theo học trường công lập. Theo thống kê năm 2019, số học sinh học trường công lập tiểu học và trung học ở Mỹ là 50.8 triệu so với 5.8 triệu học trường tư.
Và theo tui được biết đa số quân nhân Mỹ là người học trường công lập, ngay sĩ quan Mỹ cũng tốt nghiệp từ các trường công lập chứ không phải từ các trường tư thục..dành cho con nhà giàu như cậu ấm Donald Trump.
Nghe lời tuyên bố của TT, tui hăi hùng, toát mồ hôi.
Robert Vo
Trump’s newest assault on America’s public schools: They teach kids to ‘hate their own country’
By
Valerie Strauss
July 5, 2020 at 7:39 a.m. PDT
President Trump started his administration with a dystopian inaugural speech on Jan. 20, 2017, in which he talked about “American carnage” and said the country has “an education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.”
This year, in his Fourth of July speech at Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota on Friday, he changed that narrative: Now, in his view, schools are teaching kids to “hate our country” with a “far-left fascism that demands absolute allegiance."
At Mount Rushmore, Trump exploits social divisions, warns of ‘left-wing cultural revolution’ in dark speech
“If you do not speak its language, perform its rituals, recite its mantras and follow its commandments, then you will be censored, banished, blacklisted, persecuted and punished,” he said.
Trump blamed public schools for the popular uprisings across the country that have led to the removal of statues honoring leaders of the Confederacy and other historical figures who owned slaves, such as George Washington.
“Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes but that were villains,” he said. “The radical view of American history is a web of lies, all perspective is removed, every virtue is obscured, every motive is twisted, every fact is distorted and every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition.”
We will not dwell on the multiple ironies in his accusations, not the least of which is that Trump himself has ridiculed and fired people who haven’t agreed with him and has alarmed many Americans, who say he is ignoring constitutional norms and employing authoritarian tactics. That includes the violent removal of peaceful protesters in a park across the White House on June 1 so that Trump could walk across it to a church for a photo opportunity with him holding up a Bible.
We will note that Trump is pushing a view of public education in the country that has long been espoused by many Republicans: that public K-12 schools and institutions of higher education are cauldrons of subversion where teachers mold children into being politically correct leftists.
Over recent years, many state legislators have incorporated this line of thinking into their assault on public education and their funding cuts for public colleges and universities.
Meanwhile, Trump’s education secretary, Betsy DeVos, has made clear her disdain for public schools, once calling them “a dead end” and making her No. 1 priority the expansion of alternatives to traditional public schools.
This line of thinking ignores research showing that families have far more impact on the political leanings of young people than do schools and the very mission of schooling is to help young people learn to be independent thinkers who consider evidence before making decisions.
Ryan Werenka, a high school social studies teacher and department chair in the Troy School District in Michigan, tweeted a correction to Trump, writing: “Mr. Trump, I fixed your speech. ‘Our schools teach children to be active citizens and critical thinkers. They are taught to see the founders as humans, not statues. This approach reveals the greatness of our country and work left for future generations to make it greater still.’ ”
Another person on Twitter, Shari Torrence Krause of Athens, Ga., wrote: “The words from the president made me literally sick to my stomach. I feel like telling him that not all public school kids grow up to be liberals and private school kids grow up to be conservatives."