And then, if you have school aged children, start taking a long, hard look at what it will take to get them out of the publik skool sistim.
The Seven Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor Gatto.
Because I can guarantee that the damage done to them if they remain in that sistim will be almost impossible to reverse.
Item: the youngest daughter.
ReplyDeleteGraduated Sam Barlow High (Gresham, OR) in 1998, magna cum laude, with a 3.9x GPA. Went to U of Oregon. As a frosh, took frosh English comp. We had to proof-read, edit &/or write all her papers for that course. She graduated summa cum laude from U of OR in 2002 with majors in business and microbiology.
Went to Oregon Health & Sciences University Medical School. I read some of her papers. She still can't spell, and her critical thought processes lack balance, seeming to always come down on the side of liberal social engineering, no matter the input.
The entire system is a mess, from start to finish.
Tobacco Road solution required.
When little no-college-degree-having me is correcting essays written by people with a Masters degree, you know that the school system is dysfunctional on a level that would be considered criminal if it weren't run by the government.
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