Education in Mexico and most of Latin America is much better than here, because they actually manage to teach kids to read and do basic math, which is why your Latin American yard guy can actually go on and found his own landscaping business once he has earned a little money here.
We need to go back to teaching kids facts. The problem with “Common Core” is that while it sounds like it’s teaching facts (”original sources”), it’s not. It’s actually aimed at teaching them the conclusions they should draw from reading one or another thing. In other words, it’s indoctrination.
Kids simply need to learn how to read, how to write coherently, and how to do math. They also need a basic civics course (that is, government structure, how and why to vote, etc.) and a basic history course that at least enables them to distinguish between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. I can tell you from personal experience that even college students are shaky on this.
The kids I know are shaky on the difference between Germans and Russians. They're not sure what language they speak in Venezuela (Venezuelan?). They're not clear what the difference is between the two world wars and who fought who. They don't know math. They don't know history. They don't know geography. They haven't read the classics. Nothing.
Our education system doesn't educate, it only indoctrinates, and does a poor job even at that. Kids are graduating with a cartoon understanding of the world at large. I just shake my head. Good kids, mind you, but clueless.
Honorable livius. That’s not the typical migrant I’m speaking of. You know it too.