Teaching has dramatically changed in the twelve years that I’ve sent my kids to school, even at the preschool level.
Twelve years ago, when my first child went to preschool, she sang songs, colored, painted, learned her numbers and letters. Now my other children are going to preschool and they are always being tested, they have specialists to help them learn to play! Every couple of months I have meet with the preschool teachers to review my child’s performance and the paperwork involved is like signing a mortgage.
Another wonderful thing that has changed, for my oldest child, is that she had to learn about Islam and her teacher asked the students to recite that Shahada, which if you were to repeat it means that you have become a Muslim!! You can’t say the Lord’s prayer in school but you can recite the Islamic declaration of faith. I won’t even tell you the about the new math she has to learn because it gets me so upset.
I think that that teachers who don’t complain about what is going on in the schools must either be new or die hard leftists.
People tend to get p*ssed at me on this topic, but anyone sending their kids to government school should be well aware of what the risks and be ready to deal with the consequences. I ate a hell of a lot of mac and cheese to keep mine out of there.