The State of Education......from Rico.

Once again this applies to the UK.

Bottom-line is that Government-run schools have been a failure since the 70's. The Teacher's Union (NEA) wields enormous union power. Like ALL unions in the US today, they are under-worked, unproductive, and over-paid. They also kill the golden goose that employs them as a rule (look at the UAW and Detroit's former Big-3 automakers).
- It's "easier" to teach at the lowest common denominator, too. While there 'used to' be harder classes taught to college-bound students, those were a lot of work for both teachers AND students. Educators AND students are happier when there are NO expectations and NO work...the teachers get paid more money for easier work and the students have more free time to sit on their butts and smoke dope and/or play video games...who NEEDS to learn Latin, a foreign language, or ANYTHING (the 3r's, history, civics, et al)? The power switches on GameBoy and the cell-phone are clearly marked "on" and "off" right? Who needs to understand Plato's Republic or a play by Shakespeare? The rapper 50-cent is much more accessible.
- The more money plowed into "education" the worse it gets (law of diminishing returns).
- Jimmuh Carter's establishment of the Department of Education sealed the deal. Schools no longer teach the three R's, or even any kind of basic competency/literacy...the JOB of a government-run school and the Teachers UNION is now to produce ignorent and helpless "good little socialist voters" that will need the government to think FOR them, since they will lack the capacity for critical thought or problem solving. IF SCHOOLS PRODUCE VOTERS DUMB AS A WET ROCK, THE CLOWNISH POLITICIANS ARE VERY SAFE IN THEIR JOBS. Whatever lies the fans of Marx & Lenin tell the public will be 'believed' because the "leaders" say it's so (and besides, they also read it in the papers and see it on the TV news). You can understand why "The Fairness Doctrine" (read: stifle dissent) is now being pushed for by the Communists (D) now running things.
- Lowering the standards so EVERYONE can feel good even if they cannot understand or perform any of the skills/subjects and just sit on their ass (give them all A's for F work, or better, just a non-judgemental "pass" for failing work) instead of raising the bar so those who work hard, master the skill/subject and thus succeed ...and can look at their accomplishment with pride and go on to apply this to their future productive lives is another "librul" fantasy. I'll stop ranting now, but punish the successful and reward the morons is a pretty apt definition of Socoialism/Communism in my book.

IF life were to be looked at as a foot race, the ONLY way to achieve equal-and-fair results is to hold back the fleet-of-foot and make them run only as fast or as far as the slowest in the race.

Quotas and set-asides for 'minorities' instead of admissions predicated on performance/merit do not help any. Reverse discrimination against the melanin-challenged in favor of the poor oppressed melanin-rich is another "progressive" fantasy like wealth-redistribution.

Life is NOT "fair"...neither is Darwinian selection... but rewarding the inept/incapable/non-performing and punishing the talented/capable/performing never works.

Sorry to "rant" but this reminded me of a double-MA degree holder who could NOT write a coherent sentence in his native language, but was convinced he was 'smart' because that's all he was ever told (and besides, he had the Certificates that 'proved' it).

God help us...George Romero may have been on to something after all! There are now masses of brain-dead zombies all around us thanks to decades of liberal-progressive idiocy and they are called Communists (whether they are the Politicians or the 52% who voted for ObaMarx).