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As a person with teachers in the family and knowing a bit about this new age of ignorance by our youth, I have to agree
that the curriculum part of our system is out of whack. My own kids, ages 38 and 40, remind me occasionally that much of what I know is no longer usefull. And the grandkids? They think I might have voted for George Washington. REALLY, the 8 year old grandson said that.
When you make kids learn information that stopped being useful 40 years ago, they resent it. In one generation, mine, that has happened at least once. In current generations, it is happening in a shorter time frame.
The DOE should be smaller and more agile and TRY to keep up with things...
There was an education activist on Colbert last night (used to be the adminstrator of the DC school district. She proposed a radical conversion of the education system...remove the special interest groups and lobbies that dominate the curriculum and get back to actually teaching stuff...silly things like math, english, history, etc...crazy talk!