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"And the renaming of history, geography, economics, and civics into "Social Studies."

Oh, you are so right! "Social studies" is a discipline that is essentially empty except for green and leftwing propaganda. Commentators feign surprise when youngsters, and even plenty of adults by now, know nothing in the disciplines you have named. But they haven't been taught in the public schools for many years. Our schools have been working on creating Obama voters for a very long time, and they have succeeded. I find this alarming.

I should mention also that as I moved through grade school, my school district began to drop phonics. The older teachers continued to teach it using their carefully preserved older teaching materials. Their students learned to read. Newer teachers were not provided with phonics materials to teach from. Gradually, more and more students in my school began to have more and more trouble learning to read and spell. This took place in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

What has happened to the discipline of English is most disheartening. It has become race and sex leftism, no real literature, no grammar, punctuation, spelling. Both of my daughter experienced this in high school.