camel wrote:ergot: True. Those are some stupid college majors, but did you read the article about the new superintendent? One of his job titles was Assistant Superintendent, Whole Child Education. What kind of BS job title is that? Is there a school somewhere where they attempt to educate pieces of children? "Whole Child Education" sounds like some kind of new age, libtard, special snowflake, vegan, woke SJW, soyboy cuck terminology to me!
Whole Child Education is one of those cult-like movements that form from time to time and "advocate" for change in public education. Every few years a new one becomes popular and "true believers" become entranced by this "new" approach to education, which generally is nothing new, just old ideas repackaged to appear new. However, less intelligent educators get all excited about these "new" ideas. Some particularly trendy school districts might even create job assignments catering to the fad as we see in the example provided in the above quote.
ergot wrote:drdesert wrote:It used to be that a PhD actually meant something, but nowadays things have devolved to the point where it's not much more than a little badge indicating that you kissed ass and agreed with the professors. It's worse in soft subject areas than in hard subject areas, but it pervades the entire educational system. Departments of Education attract ideological advocacy types, but any major that ends with the word STUDIES is even worse: Women's Studies, Ethnic Studies, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, etc.
Don't forget Gender Studies, Transgender Studies, Feminist Studies, Black Studies, Multicultural Studies, Film Studies, Islamic Studies, etc.
Unfortunately, advocacy groups tend to target educational institutions and among the results are half-baked courses of study lacking in academic rigor and substance.
Whole Child Education
wholechildeducation.org wrote: Whole Child Tenets
Each student enters school healthy and learns about and practices a healthy lifestyle.
Each student learns in an environment that is physically and emotionally safe for students and adults.
Each student is actively engaged in learning and is connected to the school and broader community.
Each student has access to personalized learning and is supported by qualified, caring adults.
Each student is challenged academically and prepared for success in college or further study and for employment and participation in a global environment.
All this sounds great, but the devil is in the details. It's hard to disagree with these general statements, but once a community agrees to these general statements, that's when the bait and switch occurs and all sorts of little ideological surprises are slipped in behind the scenes. It's the same ole scam, but dressed up a little differently!