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To: pops88
My grandfather had an 8th grade education and was married to a school teacher. I’m guessing his education was a heck of a lot better than what we’re graduating today.
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You bet! And....The majority of his generation attended one-room schools.

So?...Think of a nice cozy one room school where all the parents know each other well and the teacher, and then compare that to your local public school that looks like a minimum security prison. Many of the towns in my state have elementary schools with FOUR first grades. What is that? A factory? A prison?

73 posted on 08/23/2012 8:30:03 PM PDT by wintertime (:-))
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To: wintertime

“The majority of his generation attended one-room schools.”

And they learned using chalk and slate. Parent’s didn’t have to sign a waiver to pay $1000 if the personal lap top was damaged, they didn’t need a computer lab, they didn’t have reams of paper in all the colors of the rainbow, as well as paint, colored pencils, magic markers, or paper towels, Kleen-x, etc. How did we ever manage to get where we are? When I got the list from my daughter’s school of what was expected to be sent for the “collective,” I had more than a few expletives I wanted to write on the paper and send back. They aren’t schools, they’re social engineering centers run by the government funneling money to unions. If we hadn’t been in bankruptcy thanks to Bush and being directly targeted by the government, she’d never have stepped foot in a public school.

And they learned using chalk and slate. Parent


77 posted on 08/23/2012 8:46:12 PM PDT by pops88 (Standing with Breitbart for truth.)
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