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My daughter could read before she started kindergarten. To me, reading always was a joy. Does anyone else remember those "Wide Horizons" books? In this day and age, it is a crime that some parents are not encouraging their children to read. They are sentencing their children to a less successful and rewarding life. It's not as if a phonics lesson is rocket science.

Parents unfortunately are afraid to question the education experts because they're afraid the "educrats" will make them look stupid. And guess what? The educrats will try to make parents feel and look stupid -- "Why, you're the only one who questioned that!"

Today's parents don't know to question the schools because they received approximately the same sort of crappy education 20-30 years ago. Today it's a little less competent academically and a lot more outrageous as far as indoctrination goes -- alternative lifestyles, radical feminism, etc. It's all done incrementally, however. A little bit at a time.

Kids go to school, jumping through the hoops, getting all those A's, and wondering, along with their parents, how come they're flunking their high-stakes tests.

Some schools indoctrinate kids with all sorts of garbage, yet the kids don't go home and question their parents about whether or not a line is being crossed, because they think the school officials are the experts and since the parents send them to school, the parents are okay with it.

Parents can demand excellence from their schools all they want, but they'll get nowhere if they are constantly stonewalled by those schools. Below is a student website run by students who are pretty savy about what is going on in their district:

http://www.fortbendisdsucks.com/

The Fort Bend School District in Texas is being audited by educationnews.org.

Maybe this action will spread to other public school districts all across the country.