[Serenissima Venezia]

I am also shocked at the decline in education standards since I went to school in the 60's.

I got my teaching credential 2 years ago and the amount of liberal crap that was 'taught' was ridiculous. And the classes were so easy that I think my then 10-year old son could have passed them (they were nothing like the undergraduate engineering classes I took and were supposedly 'graduate' level work!).

But even worse was the lack of standards and expectations in the schools when I did my student teaching and taught for one semester. Kids aren't expected to know much of anything in math and they expected to have their homework worth 50% to make up for their failing test scores!

Needless to say, I'm moving back to engineering as soon as my son is out of high school. I can't imagine having a teaching career where I know it's a lost cause.

[Brownie74]

I like your tag line. Yeah, get back into engineering. I'm glad I'm out of the work force now and don't have to put up with what is happening in the work place today.

My oldest granddaughter is having problems getting into college because of her math skills. It's not that she is dumb, it's just that they don't teach (or stress) math now like they did in the 40's and 50's. I guess there is something to "the dumbing down of America" after all.