Yep, my kids come home and say. You would not believe what we are learning. What they are not learning is English, History, the Constitution or Philosophy.
From the depth of my 78 years of experience, please find a way to home school or private school or charter school your kids.
“What they are not learning is English, History, the Constitution or Philosophy.”
Yep! Reading, Writing, and ‘Rithmetic are obsolete ideas these days. It used to be that students would learn to read and write using history as a topic (I get ENRAGED thinking about all of the terrible, liberally skewed books I had to critique throughout high school ... what a complete waste of time). Math was math ... not new math, or common core math, but math geared towards application.
A big part of our education system’s problem (outside of the leftist influences of course) is that they’re geared towards those that will want to attend college. That’s a waste frankly and doesn’t serve the needs of a majority of the kids in a high school class.
The end result is that a majority of those kids have wasted their youth and prime learning years. They are forced to play “catch up education” throughout their late teens and early 20s (this basically means that a TON of money and time, time you’ll never get back, was squandered in public school).
Sure the high schools will tout those that went off to college upon graduation and brag about the successful ones ... of course, they fail to check up on them and see if they even make it thru college ... usually the pampering they receive in high school leads to a rude awakening in college.
Ugh, I could ramble about our pathetic approach to education for hours on end ... it is frigging disgusting that we spend a ridiculous amount of money on schools and continue to FAIL our kids using an obsolete and ridiculous method to educate the masses. Liberalism is a mere byproduct of the horrible system imposed on kids.