You know, that's what's really pissing me off about this whole sickening issue.
How about a pledge to learn the Periodic Table? Or a pledge to understand subject/verb agreement?
F**king government schools won't be happy until they produce a lowing herd of retarded, pliable cattle.
Exactly on your post 63.
And "we" are funding it with our taxes. NY now ranks #1 for tax funded education. According to the State Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, it's still not enough.
Like a giant sinkhole, the monies go in but nothing comes out. The kids, especially the boys, are drugged up with Ritalyn to keep them seated and quiet.
I was educated in the old catholic school system, where the nuns had to manage classes packed with 55 students. There was no departmentalization; we sat in that one room the entire day for a year. They used the Jesuit system of 'rote'. By the time we graduated from Elementary School, we knew more than most high school grads today. No technology; a slide rule for math. Our grammar skills were impeccable. It's appalling to watch the education system in this country, roll over into moral irrelevance and decay.