Wait’ll the government takes over health care.
I went to a Catholic school with about 1/4 the budget per student as NYC public schools and 48 students per teacher, but we could read and do sums.
This is pathetic.
So did I. What percentage of students had intact families? (let me guess - 90% or higher)
My daughter teaches 3rd grade in an upscale suburb here in Indiana. She has 40% intact families. Imagine what that number is in urban shools. Asking public schools to fix a "great society" problem is a fools task.
Our family homestead in Western NY has collected “stuff” since it was built in 1830. There are books there from the mid-1800s, some of which are school textbooks. My husband, a Physicist, is shocked at the sixth grade math books. What sixth graders then were required to know is material not found in high school at all. Ditto for grammar and literature.
The overall dumbing down of America’s kids is going to help Obama and his ilk to create a dependent socialist society. Very sad.