[hanamizu]

“You think schools in this country are interested in traditional education?????? Their mission is thought control...”

---

I understand why you think what you wrote is true, but I believe you are wrong. It may well be true that some teachers and school systems (NYC cough, cough) have those goals, but to be honest, schools aren’t that well-organized and self-discipline to achieve any of those results.

Truth is, most schools and teachers are muddling by, captive to the latest educational fad to be shoved down their throats. Math by far seems to suffer from this. Forty years ago I was teaching 4th & 5th graders “modern math” where the little tykes were expected to make their own discoveries in how math operated. God forbid you made them memorize their times tables.

Today common core math teaches techniques that to my eye makes math more confusing rather than less and results in 8th grade students who either rely on their fingers or a calculator to solve 3 digit addition problems.

[wintertime]

Re: “captive”

No one is holding gun to head of any government teacher. They cooperate with evil for money, generous vacations, and outstanding pensions.

Government teachers hurt children for money.

Personally,....I shun government teachers. I don’t have abortion workers for friends, either.

[Midwesterner53]

Find me a single conservative school system in the country and I will show you a system that is doing very well. They are very few and far between.