NAEP says these scores are significantly below the national average, which is itself shameful, as the United States’s public education system ranks academically in the bottom half of developed nations.

In math, 83 percent of Tennessee 12th graders are not proficient. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the best-available measure of student academic achievement, 69 percent of students in 12th grade, the last year of their Tennessee public school education, are not proficient in reading. It’s indisputable that Tennessee’s children and teachers are ill-served by the current system. (They should also work to make Christian education available to more Tennessee children, because only a moral people is capable of self-government, and an education that excludes religion, as public schools today are forced to do, destroys faith.) Their entire partnership aims to make a better education available through Tennessee’s public school system, both for children and for their teachers, at zero cost to taxpayers and zero financial benefit to the college. Hillsdale College is working with Lee to overhaul Tennessee’s struggling public education system by opening new public schools as fast as they can recruit highly qualified teachers. They will take anybody honest they can get, as I’ve heard Arnn say multiple times, including to large audiences and in public recordings. Arnn and Lee are working to recruit, train, and employ more public school teachers.

It’s also simply a logical error to characterize Arnn’s remarks as the media and Democrats have in an attempt to scare Lee off from a K-12 overhaul that would see 50 public schools in the state use Hillsdale’s free, high-quality curricula. “It is disappointing - though unsurprising - that entrenched elements of the education establishment would take criticism of their abysmal and damaging track record and deflect it towards the very teachers they’ve undermined for decades.” Yes, Public Schools Need Serious Improvement Arnn continues to hold the utmost respect and admiration for all those who choose to devote their lives to teaching,” the college responded in a Thursday statement. Look to the devastating lockdowns they demanded and policed if you have any doubts. Tennessee media don’t care about truth, they care about helping Democrats maintain their power through educational institutions, even though it causes American children and society to suffer. She talks about what they need, because if you give them what they need, they will grow. “My wife is English, and she’s a gardener, and she doesn’t talk about what she is going to do to these plants. “The teachers are trained in the dumbest parts of the dumbest colleges in the country, and they are taught that they are going to go and do something to those kids,” Arnn said. Here’s more context for one of the carefully excerpted Arnn quotes from the secret recording, which shows his focus is on doing what’s best for children and making an argument that teacher colleges don’t focus on that but should. His disparaging remarks were aimed at the education bureaucracy that everyone but leftists knows is politically and morally corrupt. In breathless tabloid fashion, News Channel 5’s story falsely states that Arnn “repeatedly mocks the intelligence of public school teachers and questions whether they really care about what is best for their students.” Then the “reporter” rushes to state Democratic Party officials to jointly manufacture outrage to air at Republicans’ desires to improve public schools.īut Arnn was not mocking the intelligence of all public school teachers.

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