Posted on 10/27/2009 9:57:51 PM PDT by mainstreetradical.com
Why is it that a country that has produced some of the most beloved authors, prolific inventors, and has advanced the fields of science, medicine, and technology, recently found itself at the epicenter of moral and financial decline? Our current president has become the butt of Marxism jokes in the same week that he is appeasing Islam how sad for America and its people.
Yet, I fear it is our people that have become complicit in this deterioration, for more often than naught, we take for granted our freedoms and the responsibilities tied in to those freedoms. One of our responsibilities is our education. Each family should be passing on traditions and experiences of our countrys heritage, and also seeking out education for themselves and their children. When we send our progeny out into the current educational system, do we know what, if anything, they are learning?
From 1991 2007, the average GPA rose, on a four-point scale, from 2.93 3.11 in public schools. Private schools also saw a climb in GPA from 3.10 3.30. When taken in historical context, in the 1930s the average GPA was 2.35 (approximately C+), where now it is a B+. Does this mean our students are better equipped for real life? Entering society the wiser?
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I did not know that. That was charitable of Putin, but 0 appears fixed on his path.
Will we become Zimbabwe? I'd like to think Americans will act appropriately before it comes to that.
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