Some (not all) of these High Schools that don’t teach the basics still demand their raises and enhanced benefit plans.
This is ridiculous, sad, disgusting and worst of all dangerous to our future. China and Saudi Arabia view all of this with giggling delight. Their simultaneous conquests of America will go far, far easier than they had thought, even if it must be after His Weakness (aka Obama) leaves office.
A number of these districts claim they don’t have the money to hire history or geography teachers, so they drop those classes from the curriculum.
My impoverished school district did that. Then the following year, lo and behold there was money — to build a new football stadium and basketball arena. Eventually, the district caved to some very unhappy taxpayers, but many of the parents — most from the free stuff crowd — really wanted the sports facilities. They figure Junior will make money as an athlete. He doesn’t have to know who won the Civil War or name all 57 states.