[SeekAndFind]

[arthurus]

Mediocrity is a misleading term. I actually implies that the system is not terrible, just not outstanding. That is way too optimistic. The system is almost devoid of actual educational merit and exists as purely a propaganda and conditioning system for transforming our youth into partisans for collectivism and obedience to the state and to leftist manias and at least to slugs that accept whatever the state and the Left lay on them.

Mediocrity implies that intelligent people can leave the bulk of the education of their children to the System while supplementing it at home. The truth is that the System is sucking the ability to reason and to think from the brains of the children and no amount of home supplementation will be enough to both impart the education lacking in the System and counter the incessant mind conditioning.

[budj]

I worked in manufacturing for 22 years and have now taught Engineering subjects in high school for the last 16.

The average student entering our school cannot do basic mental arithmetic (5th grade stuff) and cannot read 1/16 inch on a student ruler.

Too many of them don’t even want to try to think analytically; just look stuff up on their phones.

Completely the creation of the “education schools.” Our EDD’s at work.

[T-Bird45]

FTA: “President Reagan made more than 50 trips around the country to get Americans’ attention.”

Yet he couldn’t muster the political will to rid us of the obvious point of failure - President Peanut’s Dept. of Ed (DED), despite multiple campaign trail denouncements.

[mewzilla]

Anyone who’s ever read a Mcguffey Reader knows how badly the American education system is failing. PO’d parents ought to pass them around at school board meetings.