By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-19 12:02:38 | Updated at 2024-12-19 14:55:05
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North Carolina Governor’s School Is Miseducating Elite Students
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal ^ | December 16, 2024 | David C. Phillips
Posted on 12/19/2024 3:49:12 AM PST by karpov
The North Carolina Governor’s School (GS) was established in 1963. The program was the first of its kind in the nation: a residential summer program for the state’s most academically and artistically gifted high-school students. Over 60 years later, GS has both an East and a West campus, and approximately 800 rising seniors and juniors from across the state arrive each June to spend the next four weeks living in college dormitories, eating in college dining halls, and attending advanced classes in college classrooms.
he resemblance to collegiate life isn’t incidental. The program’s webpage describes GS as “clearly situated between high school and college,” boasting that it “grants students many freedoms associated with university study.” In other words, it is self-consciously a stepping stone for our state’s elite high-school students in their quest to become North Carolina’s—and, indeed, our nation’s—elite university students.
This is why it should be profoundly concerning that GS has lost its way.
I attended the West Campus of GS (Governor’s School West or GSW) in the summer of 1995, and from 2013 to 2021 I was a member of the GSW faculty. I taught English primarily but also, occasionally, a course on “Self and Society.” In those roles, I had the privilege of teaching hundreds of incredibly bright, passionate, and ambitious students. To my great joy, I remained in touch with scores of them, watching as they graduated from high school, entered college, declared majors, earned bachelor’s degrees, pursued graduate studies, and began promising careers. I even had the honor of writing letters of recommendation for a dozen or more along the way.
At the same time, however, the program was becoming increasingly dominated by an ever-narrowing set of acceptable ideas and arguments.
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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: dei
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1 posted on 12/19/2024 3:49:12 AM PST by karpov
To: karpov
And this is news to whom?! Our “education” system has been a leftist indoctrination system for decades now.
2 posted on 12/19/2024 3:59:54 AM PST by piytar (Remember Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland, and Corey Comperatore!)
To: karpov
The problem wasn’t that students were exposed to these things; it was that they weren’t regularly presented with meaningful alternatives or equipped with the means to question or critique DEI-related assumptions. ...In other words, GSW had become what Jonathan Haidt calls a “tribal moral community”: a social group that coheres around a set of sacred values. A “sacred value,” according to Phil Tetlock, a social psychologist whom Haidt quotes, is “any value that a moral community implicitly or explicitly treats as possessing infinite or transcendental significance” and that therefore cannot be questioned...
In short, crackpot progressive/commie group-think damages students... ummm and the sun comes up in the east.
3 posted on 12/19/2024 4:01:16 AM PST by GOPJ (https://files.catbox.moe/rwi6a2.jpeg //files.catbox.moe/14hch9.jpg <img src="[image url]">)
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