[Diana in Wisconsin]

Understandable. The left doesn’t WANT an ‘educated’ populace. If youngsters were educated, why, they might grow up to be *GASP* Conservative!

And we can’t have that! ;)

[kearnyirish2]

I also believe a very big problem in education is that most teachers can’t teach math or science beyond sixth grade or so; the union rules requires a math teacher to receive the same pay as a gym teacher, so those that can DON’T teach - they work in the private sector instead (where supply & demand reaps richer rewards).

For years we’ve heard that “education” majors are at the bottom of their college classes; I can absolutely believe it.

[DuncanWaring]

Recall that in the antebellum South it was illegal to teach slaves to read.

Note also that the Democrat party was the Party of Slavery™ at its founding two centuries ago and remains the Party of Slavery™ today.