The American Public
School
System Gets an “F”
America Should Be Ashamed Of Its Education System
A Commentary by J. D.
Longstreet
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The Public Schools system of
the US has crashed and burned! No longer are our children the best educated
in the world. Now
our scholars rank
among the less well educated even among a few of the third world
countries. This is a shame we have
brought upon ourselves by inviting the Federal Government and the Unions into
our schools.
our scholars rank
among the less well educated even among a few of the third world
countries. This is a shame we have
brought upon ourselves by inviting the Federal Government and the Unions into
our schools.
One-room schoolhouses turned
out scholars of unequaled accomplishment when compared to today’s graduates. A high school education, just 50 years ago,
is the equivalent of a college degree today.
Our Public School teachers are barely qualified to teach. But, they have a Union
to see that they are paid well, whether the can teach or not! Oh, you thought teachers unions were for the
welfare of the students??? Surely you
jest!
Our local school boards have
gorged themselves from the federal trough at the expense of local control of
the curriculum and the rules and regulations.
Pupils are not challenged by
the courses they study and fall short of goals set by the federal
Government. So, the schools are now
“teaching the tests”. Indoctrinate the
students in the questions and answers on the test in hopes of attaining the
sought after number of students passing the tests. A well-rounded education is lost to the
efforts to make a good showing on the tests.
Students are forced to remain
in school even though they have no interest in what is being taught and are a
distraction to that handful of youngsters who really do want to learn.
Self-esteem is the number one
course of study. Our students are dumb
as fence posts but, by golly, they think highly of themselves! They can’t read their diplomas but they sure
do feel good about it!
So what do we do about it?
Take back our schools for a
start. Refuse federal money and all the
strings that go with it. If we have to
teach school, again, in one-room school buildings, then so be it.
Test the teachers. If they have no business in a classroom, see
to it that they are removed.
Make school voluntary. If a student does not want to be there, then
don’t make them. This will allow those
students who do wish an education to get one without the continuous
interruptions by the bored kids who’d rather be someplace else.
Discipline? Yes.
Expulsion. Period. Expel troublemakers for a few days, a few
weeks, and full school year, or forever, depending on the infraction. Make school a serious business again. We owe an environment, suitable for learning,
to those students who are there for the purpose of learning and making a better
life for themselves.
We can take our schools
back. We have to want to do so and we
have to be ready to make the sacrifices necessary to insure our children a good
education, not the pitiful excuse for an education they are getting now.
(Spend a few minutes in the comments
section of any blog on the Internet and take special notice of the sentence
structure, the composition, the horrible grammar, the god awful spelling, and
the obliviousness to it all by the writer.
You have just taken the measure of the product of the American public
education system. It is beyond horrible.)
One of a parent’s primary
obligations, as a parent, is to see that their children have a shot at the
brass ring in life. The first, and most
fundamental, step in that process is a solid education.
Government vouchers were
killed by the teachers unions because they rightly understood that the public
school system would crumble, and collapse, as parents pulled their children out
of those useless institutions and placed them in private schools where they had
some say, and some control, over the quality of education their kids were
getting.
The public school system is
near collapse right now. I don’t think
it would be a bad thing, actually. When
an institution is so badly damaged, and no longer serves it’s primary purpose,
it SHOULD be trashed and a new institution begun in its place. Create an
Institution to educate our kids. They're not getting an eduction today. They're getting an indoctrination.
Parents, we owe our kids
that! We owe them a chance to make the
best of their talents. We owe them a
shot at a good, solid, education. Get
them out of the public schools and into a private, or parochial, school where
there are qualified teachers who still have an incentive to teach our kids, the
will to teach our kids, and the desire to teach our kids.
The public school system is America is a failure.
It should be put out of its misery.
J. D. Longstreet
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