| Quite frankly Jack, anyone who adheres to the nonsense spouted on your two referenced websites does need an injection of intellect plus a dose of reality.
To suggest that any one national political entitiy is influencing the teaching profession is absurd? The Feds may subsidize some aspects of education but it is a constituional responsibility of the States to assure that its inhabitants are schooled.. Its the local school boards(not Bush) who hire the so called professionals and have allowed the curriculum and teaching goals to become a joke. It is the local authorities who insist on prohibiting any group that a reference to religion from using school facilties for advancin students understanding of relion or the absence of it.
In fact if any policial ideology is dumbing down the populace its is the leftist factions and elites in the country. The feel good society where compassion must rule and we don't want a kid to fail because if might damager his feeling of self? The tack of enacting cumpulsory attendance laws that keep trouble makers around to screw up the discipline and learning of the rest.(It should be up or out at the end of the students 18th year).
Lets next turn to industry and the leftist press which dazzles our youngsters with gagets that either make adding 2+2 easier or divert our students with phones and text messaging. A media elite that makes sports and entertaiment a fetish with youngsters and touches on the feel good aspects of getting high on drugs rather that the satisfaction of educational achievement. And a media which extolls criticism of religion and its important moral strictures on societal behaviour.
These bozos who write such nonsense would have a hard time blaming sectarian schools for turning our low intellect products.
the private and home schooled kids learn and normally outclass those in public school . Whereas the inner citypublic schools are a disgrace.
Thus we play the fools with the time, and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us. |