Public schools teach the content and rules needed for success in America's culture of religiously diverse communities. If this were true it would be great, Except that they don't. What they teach is the least common denominator of leftist political indoctrination. And even that is done with a minimum of efficiency.
Recent demographic shifts indicate that we need the unifying force of our schools more than ever. Changes in family structure, technology, immigration and our workplace have made public schools essential to our cultural unity.
At present, the only unifying force in our schools is that they are failing to teach everyone, equally. Yeah! An entire generation of equal opportunity failure. I feel so much better.
Mittlefehldt, 55, of Anoka, is one of eight Pioneer Press Community Columnists for 2002. He is a social studies teacher at Anoka High School.
Well that explains it, he's an imbecile with an agenda. I just wish he would learn to keep his mouth shut about issues he clearly doesn't understand.
"If this were true it would be great, Except that they don't. What they teach is the least common denominator of leftist political indoctrination. And even that is done with a minimum of efficiency.
At present, the only unifying force in our schools is that they are failing to teach everyone, equally. Yeah! An entire generation of equal opportunity failure. I feel so much better."
Nonsense! You pick out a few examples of the PC disease in the public schools and say that "they are failing to teach everyone"? That's way too broad a generalization. I certainly agree that there's some real hare-brained ideas, and teachers trying to implement them, in some public schools. But there's a lot of kids who get a fine education in public schools. Now, if you want the public schools to teach religion as well, then you have a problem. But to paint all the public schools in the U.S.A. as teaching leftist propoganda, as opposed to a few, is not supported by anything I've seen.