Written: “...I’ve always thought there’s something uniquely
egalitarian and therefore American about the idea of
public education, providing opportunities for all children
to better themselves.”
You wrote: “This author needs to pull his head out of the
sand. What a deluded fool.”
Deluded, not at all. Up until a half-century ago very
talented women were our teachers. Then they entered the job
market and teaching became the vocation of the very very
minimally talented. They were prey to every stupid ism that
came along at mediocre universities and passed it on to
their students. Good bye public schools.
If the author failed to notice the change in the next 50 years deluded is a very accurate description.
I had to pull my children from public school in 4th grade & kindergarten in the mid ‘80’s to a private school. The next two went directly to private school. By the time the first two boys were approaching high school we put them in a catholic boys preparatory school to escape liberal indoctrination of the private high school (run by a different headmaster) and to reinforce a moral grounding.
Anyone who has ignored all the “Why Johnny can’t Read” and the “new math” is either deluded or under a rock. One of my sons left the catholic school for a year. He wanted to play football. He came to us in March and said I want to go back to Oratory, “There are knives used in the hallways & people threaten me in Spanish, I can’t even understand them. No one cares what happens to me.”