[MasterGunner01]

American public schools are producing uneducated, indoctrinated “students” incapable of original thought. What skills they acquire are inspite of the public schooling and not due to it. With all the computerized learning about, we should be changing the model on how kids are educated. The old brick and mortar buildings with expensive classrooms and even more expensive teachers are bordering on obsolete. Public schooling actually discourages learning. Schools have become prisons where kids are locked-up for eight hours a day in a taxpayer funded warehouse.

[Huaynero]

Great Guns, you well rounded all the bases!
Simply too much value on education and little if any on knowledge. Some years ago, I mentioned to a HS teacher the importance of students learning “critical thinking”. Got a blank stare and the gulping mouth of a goldfish in return. Gulp was followed by uhhhHUH!