It’s true, love of reading is at the heart of any well-rounded education.
However, if 90% of students graduated from US high-schools (or 90% of some large sub-set of those graduates) can’t identify Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis, then I believe that 90% of all elementary, middle-school and high-school teachers and administrators should be immediately fired from their jobs, sued for the return of their salaries to the public coffers and prosecuted for malfeasance and and violation of the public trust.
And the NEA leadership should be brought before military tribunals on capital charges.
What they’ve done to education in America is beyond criminal. It is treason.
“I believe that 90% of all elementary, middle-school and high-school teachers and administrators should be immediately fired from their jobs, sued for the return of their salaries to the public coffers and prosecuted for malfeasance and and violation of the public trust...”
what you’ve identified is “educational malpractice” and in fact, could be a”civil rights violation” as the consequence permanently handicaps the individual. IMHO...this is how to crowbar the NEA out of our lives...but we need to use their own tactics on them.
“What they’ve done to education in America is beyond criminal. It is treason.”
Amen ! When I was in high school, the AP students in my classes were scholars! Today, even these courses must be watered down to a significant degree. U.S. History is not a requirement for graduation, as it used to be.
The idea of setting off across the atlantic in a single engine prop plane, even a modern one, without radar, radio, or Facebook, is a compelling story at any time in history.