[Clemenza]

"Gee our schools are swell. Junior gets As and his teachers are so nice to us." I've heard it all my life...

Meanwhile, test scores continue to fail and a large proportion of those who enter college can't even properly conjugate a sentence. It does not surprise me that my foreign colleaugues often get better grades than their American counterparts.

[MineralMan]

"Meanwhile, test scores continue to fail and a large proportion of those who enter college can't even properly conjugate a sentence. "

Really. Well, then, you must have gone to one of those terrible public schools. One conjugates VERBS, not sentences. One diagrams sentences.