PH said: You didn't know?
Well, I didn't know until I became a Cub Scout Leader. My 7yo son is educated at home, so I have no idea what they teach in the local public school. It is certainly not reading, writing, or math.
Don't get me wrong. I love the boys in my den, but I am saddened at the quality of education they are receiving. I can't believe that millions of parents sit still for this.
Even worse, I think it's fair to say that Scout parents are generally more involved with their children than the population at large. So, it must be even worse than I think...
It's worse. I pulled my daughters out of high school after Columbine and enrolled them in a correspondence school. I looked at the material when it arrived and was disappointed because it was, IMO, 7th or 8th grade-level.
The startling thing was the response I got from my girls a week after they started these lessons...they said they had learned more in one week of the correspondence school than in an entire year of high school!
We need to revolt or something.