Re: The kids are getting dumber....

George Graves wrote:



Joe, I can't tell if this guy's trying to be ironic or if he really means whet he posts, but ignoring the fact that public schools in the US DO teach leftism, both because its part of the US academic culture and because it's mandated from the highest levels of school administration, they certainly do a poor jobs of giving the kids the tools they require for a lifetime of learning. The system turn out kids that cannot read (except at a very elemental level), cannot do even simple math (I see this all the time. Teenagers with summer jobs waiting on customers who absolutely cannot even BEGIN to make change.) and who don't know a thing about how their government works, what electricity is, etc. They cannot write a coherent sentence, can't spell, and in short are functional illiterates. This is anecdotal, and as such is just an example, but a friend of mine's daughter just graduated from high-school and is on her way to the University of Colorado at Boulder. The girl went to one of the best schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Gatos High School, had a 3.8 average or some such, yet she meets all the criteria of a full functional illiterate. She can't read, she certainly cannot write. Doesn't know a noun from a pronoun from an adjective, and cannot do even simple sums without a calculator. Yet she is not stupid. When I ask my friend (who agrees that she learned nothing in school) what was she being taught all those years, he says (his voice dripping with scorn) that she was taught "socially significant" things. She knows all about the black struggle for equality, but doesn't know what the Civil War was all about. She's heard of Harriet Tubman but not Thomas Edison, She's never heard of Leonardo DaVinci, but knows about gay rights. Hasn't a clue about who wrote the Constitution, but she sure knows who Susan B. Anthony was. It's just pathetic and I weep for the future.

If your friend knew that this was true, why didn't he do anything about it? She is his daughter. Her education is his responsibility.

Schools are tools that parents use to help educate their children. It is still the parents' responsibility to educate their children.

Yes, I have children who are currently in public school. I am actively involved with their education. I know what they are learning.
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