Public education is pretty much a joke nowadays. I will back this statement up with examples here in a moment. First a little background on the public education system. The modern public education system as we know it came to us from Massachusettes, Mass. adopted the form in the early to mid 1800's. They had in turn adopted it from the Prussians. The prussians had discovered that the "average" soldier "thought" too much and this led to problems on the battlefield. In order to counteract this they instituted the public education system. Just a very brief summary. Don't believe it look it up. Do some research.
Now to my examples of how the public education system is a joke. Have 1st cousin who literally cannot hardly read. Guess what he is doing right now on the state dollar. He is working on his Masters in education via a special program to teach special education in the "state" schools. Makes a lot of since doesn't it. Since he can't hardly read a "reader" is provided for him to take his tests, or the professor's or their assistant's administer the test to him orally. And gues what. He gets all the time he needs to take the test when others only get the amount of time that class is in session.
Next example. My sister in law is in high school. She came home asking if we had heard about the new tunnel. "No, what new tunnel are you talking about?" We say. "The tunnel that connects NY to England?" Says here science teacher told them that in class. Next week she comes in this was right around the time that there was supposed to be a big meteor shower within a few days. Says that she doesn't know why the media is talking about the expected meteor shower, because her teacher had taught them that 85% of meteor are actually frozen human waste jetisioned from airplanes. Needless to say after these two incidents her parents went to the principal.
As for the liberal slant on textbooks. 100% correct. I started out majoring in history. Have always been a big history buff especially military history. Go to college and start taking history classes and the majority of any history class anymore is talking about guess what "class struggle". I thought you only had to take a class in Marxism or Communism to get this. Very little is taught about how America won its independance, or even how we kept it. By the way I only ended up with a minor in history and a major in philosophy. Figured I had better learn how to argue with em and attempt to beat them with sound logic and facts. Learned the hard way that liberals just don't listen. Their mind is already made up. Best we can hope for is to swing those still sitting on the fence.
Picked up a high school "social studies" book the other day. About a page, about 1/4 of which was a picture talking about Thomas Jefferson and his contribution to America. A few pages over 3 full pages discussing how great Alexander Hamilton was and all his accomplishments. HMMMMM Wonder what the connection was with Hamilton who wanted a massive, powerful, federal government, and a liberal textbook that expounds how great he was.
Rant off.:banghead: