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[Jeanfromfillmore]

Originally Posted by ilbegone

Since the late 70's lot of it has to do with the schools and parents who abdicate their parental authority to the school system.

A lot of adults might confuse Franklin D. Roosevelt and Benjamin Franklin. Not long ago, I asked a 7 year old what she knew about American presidents. Sounding proud of it, she declared that "Barack Obama is our president". I asked about more, then after some thought she mentioned Abraham Lincoln - "he was a good person who kept bad people from doing bad things to good people". She knew nothing else, not even about George Washington. More recently, there was a newspaper article about a nearby middle school ESL program, an example of the lesson plan had to do with articulating about Martin Luther King and organized protests against injustice.

So, a lot of the kids can't read, write, do arithmetic, nor have any sense of our history and special place among nations when they leave school. But, they will be well versed in societal change and fully primed to vote far left Democrat...

You're exactly correct. But for those that recognize this huge problem, it seems that nothing can be done to stop the spiral downward in education. Those that control the Dept. of Ed. are only concerned with their own comfortable position and increasing their $$$$ both in their pocket and slush fund.

This spiral has been happening for so many years/decades now that it would take something seemingly insurmountable to reverse it. Only those young students with families that care about a good education and are willing to take the task upon themselves seem to have a chance at a decent education; because it sure isn't happening in just about all of our schools today.