By Steve Gunn
EAGnews.org

NEW YORK – At the “progressive” Blue School of Manhattan, parents pay $32,000 per year to have their children trained to become “creative, joyful and passionate inquirers” who will someday “help build a harmonious and sustainable world.”

The trouble is that the children in this expensive K-3 school are not being taught to read. Parents are just figuring that out, and they’re pulling their kids out in droves, according to media reports.

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Not surprisingly, there is no set curriculum and no established starting time at the Blue School. So apparently the kids can arrive whenever they want, to be instructed on topics that have no connection to fundamental skills that make more sophisticated learning possible in later grades.

For example, a new entry into the curriculum last year was “meta-cognition,” which is the ability to think about thinking.

In seems the expensive school is nothing more than a laboratory for eggheaded educators to test their radical theories of education. As an article published by TheBlaze.com put it, “from the beginning, the founders wanted to incorporate scientific research about childhood development into the classroom.”

And parents pay $32,000 for their kids to be used as lab rats.

“But after some concern (was expressed) about the loose structure of the school, parents started requesting formal examinations – and they were stunned by the results,” theBlaze.com said.

“It’s all fun and games until you realize your second-grader can’t read,” one mother posted on an education web site.

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Duh.

Emily Glickman, founder of an education consulting firm in New York, summed up the situation when she told the New York Times that most of her parent clients found the Blue School “a little too artsy and alternative. I find more and more, for their tuition dollars, families want tradition, structure and the 3 R’s.”