Sigh!
That was the line used successfully against PA’s last governor and he lost his bid for re-election. The stupid voters don't realize how much money spent in the name of education goes to teacher salaries, new football stadiums and what not. BUT in some schools most don't graduate. Those that do are functionally illiterate. I read in one local district, of all the high school kids taking the SAT, only 2 passed. You can blame much of the failure on other factors, but certainly, lousy teachers focused on indoctrination instead of education is a major part of the problem.
There has to be some system of accountibility for teachers and professors. If their teaching methods are not effectively producing results they should be terminated. No Tenure or protections for teaching positions should exist. Evaluations should be based on performance and how much the students are learning.
There is a move in some schools back to the teaching methods employed in the ‘50’s. There was a common sense approach to academics back then. Somehow that got lost resulting in a high percentage of kids that were not able to read or do basic math. We need a renewed effort to teach history, not revisionist history, but true American History, warts and all. The lack of knowledge of history and awareness of what is happening in the world today among young people is appalling. We used to have “Current Events” each week along with Social Studies and Government. There is no way we can raise kids to be responsible citzens without these fundamentals.
I believe the goal of the Left has been to produce a society of dumbed down, maleable masses. We have to take control of education back NOW! No more Common Core. No more Federal Funds and Federal Standards. Local Control and each state adopts Standards of Performance.