"Education?"

What are we thinking?

During the 1960's, while I was in high school, we started dropping academic requirements (for example the foreign language requirements) in the interest of personal expression and "free choice".

In more recent years, costs cut backs have removed the arts, physical fitness, clubs, and vocational training from the schools.

Teachers salaries have been cut.  Teachers become responsible for buying their own class supplies from these reduced salaries. Meanwhile, administrative facilities, numbers and salaries have increased.

Last week, the news reported that in one south Florida county, final exams have been made "optional" because of the undue stress placed on the students to study for them.  A few weeks before that, another south Florida county decided to remove printing and cursive instruction from the elementary schools because it interfered with the thought processes for "texting"!

Go to most restaurants and retail establishments, and ask for change or a basic addition or percentage calculation and see what happens!

Compare our US educations with those overseas...we need to reevaluate our educational priorities...