A lawsuit filed by parents in Massachusetts leverages an entirely different principle of law. Two families have a class action which could turn out more effective than previous attempts. Their novel approach is grounded on the same idea as “lemon laws” which protect consumers from grossly defective cars. There’s also a false advertising aspect to what school districts are promising compared to what they’re delivering. If Big pharma or the tobacco industry can get “punished with huge fines and penalties” what makes educators immune?
Bold lawsuit approach
There have been previous lawsuit efforts nationwide intended to “force” schools to actually educate their students. None of them have produced much success. As New York Post points out, “with precious few exceptions, American schools are graduating more and more students who are illiterate, innumerable, illogical, and ignorant.”
That’s the whole reason H-1 B visas are so controversial. “International assessments like TIMSS and PISA expose how atrociously American students lag behind, despite high, and still-skyrocketing, public spending.”
Two families in Massachusetts are determined to do something about it. They decided “they had finally suffered enough.” After hiring the right attorneys, they took action. “With a potentially trailblazing lawsuit.”
Karrie Conley and Michele Hudak filed a state class-action on December 4. They named defendants including “the creators, publishers, and promoters” of courses popular with liberal indoctrinators.
The lawsuit directly attacks “Lucy Calkins’ Reading and Writing Project,” along with “the Classroom curriculum by Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell.” Also named as defendants are Heinemann Publishing, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Columbia University’s Teachers College.
The complaint alleges “deceptive and fraudulent marketing and sale of products and services.” Their use on young impressionable children “caused developmental, emotional, and financial injuries.”
Straight to the heart
The lawsuit they filed “goes straight to the heart of the matter” the Post writes. What they meant to say is straight for the jugular. “Big Education provides a glaringly defective product that causes undeniable harm and is demonstrably fraudulent.”
The consumers of that education are America’s families. They’re “entitled to protection under existing consumer-protection laws.”
At least a quarter of America’s schools are required to use Calkins’ “vibes-based literacy.” Phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension are way too difficult for modern students so teachers prefer the more “balanced” approach.
Students, the lawsuit says, “are not well-served when they’re instructed to ignore letters and vocabulary and taught instead to use ‘picture power’ to guess what the words on the page might be.”
While that may work for simple nouns abstract concepts don’t stand a chance of comprehension. What happens when there are no pictures? Fewer than “half of Massachusetts’ and New York City’s fourth graders are reading-proficient.” The public school system has “materially” harmed the plaintiffs.
“For years, Big Education has been pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into every aspect of school life, promising it will bring racial harmony.” Instead, the lawsuit argues, it brought idiots who can’t compete with students from other nations.
