I was talking with a 9th grade social studies teacher and she does a little "test" at the beginning of the school year to see where kids are at. She told me 1/3 of her class didn't know where the capital of the US was. We had those memorized by 2 or 3rd grade when growing up.
Teachers Union on full display.
As are the parents.
When we pay big bucks for a service as we do for education, we shouldn’t have to double and triple check every aspect of it just to see if we got our monies worth.
An astute parent recognizes the teacher has her/his hands full just getting the basics pounded into the heads of the misfortunate.
An astute parent will recognize that his own children are worthy of more than the typical public education teacher can afford to offer.
An astute parent will pick up the slack with personal time, tutoring, or transfer to better schools.
People who choose to brew up their own storms bitch loudest about the rain.
