Where has the "America of my dreams" gone?

 

I dont know if I am qualified to comment on the accomplishments we can claim in educating our young but I'll give it a try. I have two wonderfull daughters that have been educated entirely by the public school system with a good infusion of family values and encouragement by both me and their mother. The results can be rated superb since both are quite successfull and most important possess the confidence it takes to succeed in this increasingly complex world. Unfortunately I see them as rare exeptions rather than anything that indicates the education system is doing a good job in educating our young. More and more often we hear that schools are spending way too much time teaching the young how to put a rubber on a cucomber as a big push into real life. As for math which I consider vital in order to succeed in this complex world teachers are turning to the calculator (computer now) more than encouraging the use of the brain to thinkand understand that one hundred dollars is made up of either a onehundred dollar bill,or two fiftyes,or five twenties or ten ten or twenty fives or one hundred singlesetc etc. . I have been educated by a sole teacher the first five years of my life in school with shockingly positive results and that equates with the quite popular system in this country of home schooling. In my opinion home schooling is far superior than the public school system will ever get and yet here comes a shocker by the disgusting liberal court system in California that makes home schooling illegal.Couple that with the way the ACLU has made God exit all schools and you get an idea of the current mess we are in."Try and figure that one out for me, I cannot"

Domenic