Let us be honest: we have a major problems in our public education system. Let us look at some basic data:
- Nationally, 29% of students read at grade level.
- Only 26% do math at grade level.
- In Chicago, only 11% of Blacks and 17% of Hispanic students read at grade level.
Somehow, most of these students pass from year to year until they either drop out or graduate unable to read or do basic math. Amazing. What kind of life awaits them?
Yet there is more:
- In Washington State, while the student population has increased by 3%, the staff has increased by 20%.
- In Massachusetts, the number of students has fallen by 42,000 but the number of staff has increased by 18,000.
What exactly are all those new administrators and teachers doing aside from pushing transgender studies and asking the students if they would like to use ziv, zim or some other meaningless scramble of letters that are proclaimed pronouns. Pronouns that are made up from thin air by ideologues who are only seeking to further their own agendas, regardless of the negative impact on others.
Does anyone other than those who are getting paid by the system believe that we are getting our monies worth? That the children are being prepared for the real world? Do they honestly think at the end of each day that they have contributed to a better world?
The real crime, yes crime, of the system, is that millions of individuals who pass through the system are being cheated and denied an opportunity at living a full life. They graduate unprepared and ill-equipped to get a decent job, to be good parents, and to look forward to a life of increased beauty and ease. They are condemned by the system and their lives that will be harder and less rewarding than necessary. This is a moral failure on the part of those who profit from the system and who accept it.
The attached article should shock you and make you ask who is accountable for the failings of the public school system other than the children themselves.
