[Don Joe]

Not frustration so much as sadness -- sadness for a nation that has fallen so far, so fast. A century ago -- even less, in some cases -- someone with an eighth grade education had more real knowledge than a typical college grad today. More history, more math, more philosophy, more understanding of civics (as the founders intended, not this baloney about "our 'democracy'")... I suspect an average 8th grader from that era had more real knowledge, working smarts, then most college professors today.

[Velveeta]

9 dead
20 missing
Per FOX report

[eyedigress]

I hate to do this, but public school was created to teach immigrants English. The morals of education were non-existent. I say this because Parents were in Charge of the Morality of a child. As far as the history goes, or philosophy, I doubt the normal school-age child of 1905 had it. It came from their parents and their free life.

[Inverse]

I have to agree with you.