Thats because your creating a strawman. My original point was that PC has contributed to declining levels in western education regardless of whether it was happening on qualifying for Universities or standards in general dropping which I think I have clearly supported.
Flat out wrong seems a strong claim. Is that a fact. The articles I linked support that PC, woke and cancel culture ideology has caused a drop in education standards. It stands to reason. Many unies are compromising entrance standards to accommodate minorities who would not normally qualify to be PC (affirmative action).
Because postmodernist PC ideology hates the West its natural that core curriculum on the west is being cancelled and substituted by PC subjects including in subjects that have little to do with race and gender. If you take away the fundemental knowledge of the Western canon thinking such as Enlightenment then you are taking away freedom of thought, critical and rational thinking. That to me is anti-intellectual.
Cancel culture in schools is also reflected in what is not on the curriculum. It can be seen in what is not seen, the topics and issues not discussed, the books that are not on the reading lists, especially the intellectually enriching classics from the canon of great Western literature that are omitted in favour of contemporary texts (published since the 1960s) that promote political correctness.
The Australian Curriculum severely limits the study of what would broadly constitute Western civilisation. This ideological bias in the Australian Curriculum severely limits the scope of inquiry, debate and discussion. This can restrict the topics for consideration and the possibilities for analytical thinking or reasoning, as well as preclude any opportunity to encourage the valuable scholarly discipline of attempting to achieve the highest degree of objectivity possible when conducting research and analysis.
Cancel Culture in Schools – Quadrant Online
Actually PC was around or beginning to brew in the 1980's. Its the result of the cultural revolutions of the 60's. Philosopher
Allan Bloom predeicted woke ideology in the 80's and he has been proven right since.
The closing-of-the-mind thesis was first articulated by the mercurial American scholar, Allan Bloom, back in the 1980s. Bloom’s achievement was to document the emerging campus culture that we now call ‘Wokeism’.
The quietly resurrected Alan Tudge, now Shadow Education Minister in the freshly minted Opposition, probably hopes the Albanese government won’t reverse the decision to increase the cost of liberal…
It appears there has been a big decline in education standards after the year 2000 and getting worse arouned 2012 onwards. This happens to line up with the spread of PC, woke ande cancel culture that has been happening in recent years. I am not saying its the only factor but there seems to be a correlation.
“We have observed continuing falls in our results since PISA began in 2000 and yet again the data tell us we have failed to lift our performance,”
PISA 2018: Australian student performance in long-term decline
Although there has been much media attention on falling international ranks, it is actually this decline in real scores that should hit the headlines. That’s because it means that students in 2000 answered substantially more questions correctly than students in 2012. The decline is equivalent to more than half a year of schooling.
In NSW, the requirement for Higher School Certificate (HSC) maths or science study was removed in 2001. The national curriculum also makes no requirement for maths or science study after Year 10. Australia is just about the only developed nation that does not make it compulsory to study maths in order to graduate from high school.
In Australia between 1983 and 2003, the standard intake was from the top 26% to 39%. By 2012/2013, less than half of Year 12 students receiving offers for places in undergraduate teacher education courses had ATAR scores in the top 50% of their age cohort. Teacher education degrees also had the highest percentage of students entering with low ATAR scores, and the proportion of teacher education entrants with an ATAR of less than 50 nearly doubled over the past three years. We cannot expect above-average education with below-average teachers.
Six ways Australia's education system is failing our kids
I would say the last one "failure to adopt a back to basics approach in teaching" is most relevant today considering we are getting rid of core curriculum and replacing this with PC subjects. This is evidenced in the poor levels of basic education in the 3 R's and general knowledge including history and literature but also the lack of critical ande free thinking in unies.
Resources has always been a claim for poor results yet developing nations are outdoing western nations with half the resources. Australian schools and I would imagine other western nations like the US and England as we usually follow suit have had record levels of funding such as with Gonski funding yet the results are still declining.
Despite record levels of funding flowing to Australia’s schools, education results have suffered a 20-year decline on international benchmarks.
The 10-year anniversary of the plan has sparked criticism of the successive governments’ failure to implement the report’s recommendations
Education has become more politicised with Leftist ideology and feminised. Feminism fits well with PC and Woke ideology. Girls once were behind and we installeed more girl friendly education. But at the same time these approaches were conflicting with young males. The new learning approaches of open classrooms, non competition, remaining still and quiet, share and care and self paced learning don't suit boys.
Boys are more hands on, active and competitive. Their roudyness is seen a misbehaving in todays environment. There is also a lack of male role models as the majority of teachers are females. As a result they lose interest get into trouble and drop out. This has been going on for some time but no one is deoing anything because they don't want to upset the apple cart. This is not the only factor as upbringing plays a part. But a similar enviornment seems to be permeating in a postmodern society that derides males.
Our findings demonstrate that adolescent girls consistently score higher than boys on personality traits that are found to facilitate academic achievement, at least within the current school climate. Stated differently, the current school environment or climate might be in general more attuned to feminine-typed personalities, which make it —in general— easier for girls to achieve better grades at school.
The Emergence of Sex Differences in Personality Traits in Early Adolescence: A Cross-Sectional, Cross-Cultural Study
Feminised curriculum 'has thrown boy out with bathwater'
About 76 percent of public school teachers were female and 24 percent were male in 2017–18
That wouled seem to point to even worse results for locals then. After factoring out forigners the picture will be even worse for declining western edeucation standareds. I think forigners seem to have higher levels of learning ande deisciplien and don't but into local politics. Put it this way, you deon't see woke and PC in Asian education. Quite the opposite.