[snowman]

Teachers, in general, are not to blame for the state of our public schools. I know about teachers because most of my family, extended family are teachers, principles, administrators. EG sisters, aunts, uncles, grandmothers, g grandmothers, gg grandmothers, ggg grandmothers, cousins....my daughter, to many to name.

The system is to blame. The system is a socialist, communistic based system that quite simply awards FAILURE, that SIMPLE, no fancy analysis required. NOTHING that is non government awards failure, NOTHING that is successful, including private schools rewards failure.

Teachers are to blame for accepting the indoctrination, something they should be smart enough to resist, to the socialist ways. I think all teachers should have at least 15 years experience in the "real" world before they are allowed to teach. IN other words a whole lot less so called socialist education courses and a whole lot more reality. After all they are not teaching rocket science, just the abc's and basics. Real independent learning must be left to college and post grad education, where people can start to think for themselves, when they have attained the tools necessary to start to learn. Real learning only takes place in the real world, after college. The purpose of education is to provide continuity, to provide the TOOLS. Knowledge is learned, only after the tools are mastered.