For a few years I thought the worst possible gimmick in education was Whole Word, basically a device to make sure kids don't learn to read. In the last few months, the clamor grew about Core Standards and National Standards, and I started to focus on arithmetic. More and more I’m struck by the parallel with Whole Word. The Education Establishment seems to specialize in coming up with techniques that are almost guaranteed not to work.
Hubby was desperately seeking engineers with the ability to actually engineer. They’ve become sparse. After months, he has finally hired two who had proper educations.
The real danger to the country is the destruction, for the past three generations, of the public education system. It is pumping out ignorant fools who hate their own country and have tons of self esteem and little else to offer an employer.
This whole-country, metastatic cancer must be slashed and burned.