The lack of good education in ANY subject leads me to entertain the ideas that (a) Schools don't want to teach anything of substance, and (b) Teachers probably were produced by the same system and couldn't even if they wanted to.
Then consider the uninvolved parents who are either working at their second jobs or are watching TV, consider the PC advocates who will pounce on the mildest transgression and scare the teachers into submission, and consider the lawyers who will sue everyone in sight if ANY discipline is wielded.
Currently, it's a no-win system. We need "Change we can believe in!" How's that for a political slogan?
What would happen if we gave every government teacher in this nation one month to prepare for, take, and pass, the GED for high school dropouts? I am willing to bet that the ranks of government teachers would be utterly decimated!
The lack of good education in ANY subject leads me to entertain the ideas that (a) Schools don't want to teach anything of substance,
The very **GOAL** of the progressive Utopian school reformers and industrialist of the mid-1800s and early 1900s **WAS** to create compulsory government schools that would produce compliant workers for the fascist state! Getting a "good" education is not conducive to being a good little slave to the fascist state.
By the way....From the very beginning of government schooling in the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, children learn every day to be **comfortable** with taking money from their neighbor to pay for a service their parents want for FREE. Do this for one to 3 generations and you will get voters who are comfortable with the IRS, the Federal Reserve, FDR's New Deal, Johnson's Great Society and a thousand other socialist paper cuts, and, now, a MARXIST Obama!
government schools were a socialist abomination from the beginning! They have taught Americans on a daily basis to be comfortable with using their neighbor's money! They can NOT be reformed. They ARE socialist, and socialism can NOT be reformed.