I was talking with my mother today (a public school teacher) about the declining quality of her students, year over year.
I realized that when I was in 8th grade, the school I attended decided to integrate all qualities of students into homogeneous classrooms. The purported reason was that this was more equitable and the more intelligent students would raise the standards of the rest of the class.
This was a disaster year — yet now it is the norm. There can only be one reason — administrators will sacrifice the top students in order to marginally improve the average student’s test scores.
What happened to the calls to get rid of the Dept of Education? Every year we continue federal control over education, the worse things will get — end of story.
