[america-rules]

My first son was held back in kindergarden. I used to sit in the parking lot and watch the black teacher hug and kiss every black kid who was in her class and just say hi to all the others as they arrived at school. When he finished the year she said he didn't know the ABC's when he knew them two years earlier in preschool (a good black teacher).

My second Son (15 years later and 5 years old in 2003) goes to a private school and can read and write and he starts kindergarden in two weeks.

The moral is public ed sucks and alot of teachers suck !

[Cincinatus' Wife]

For the well being of your child, your solution was swift and correct. Not only are they failing students academically, they're bombarding them with Left-wing propaganda.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

For the well being of your child, your solution was swift and correct.

Oops. Well, you didn't repeat your mistake. Too many parents operate under the assumption schools today are like schools they attended. Not so.

[Liberty Wins]

According to the U.S. Secretary of Education, 46% of American students have serious reading problems. At the very time our manufacturing, blue-collar base is shrinking and we need a population with a high level of literacy so we can be competitive in the information age, we have an alarming number of illiterates dragging our country down.

On the family level, nobody knows the pain these individuals suffer their entire lives because a lousy educational system has failed them.

Parents should teach, or hire someone to teach their kindergarteners to read before the public schools get their hands on them. Buy a phonics kit!