My great grandmother went to a one room school near Mancelona Michigan in the early 1900s. Just like on Little house on the prairie, the school was also the church. It received no taxpayer dollars and she walked away in the 9th grade better educated than most college students today.
She learned to speak latin in that little country school.
Thank you CC for your work here. Always a pleasure.
I’ll be absent for the next week or two due to work. DVR here I come!
Good night and God bless.
Yup. Of course, there were a lot of differences, but it can be done. Unfortunately I don’t think you can walk back from where we are. The system has real problems, but so does the culture. It’s like trying to make a good product when the factory is bad AND the raw material is bad, and the templates are bad.
The real problem is that everyone wants schools to do what they should not. They want them to educate kids (not the major function by any means anymore)/ provide daycare/ provide jobs for adults/ and other things. Schools did a good job when the only real thing they were expected to do was teach kids. Anything else was gravy.