The central problem lies with the funding and administration of schools at a level higher than the school district. By injecting money at the State and Federal levels the governments have hijacked the education of our youth. School administrators have become more concerned with meeting guidelines for funding than they are with providing an education.

Some time about forty or fifty years back school districts stopped being a place that children went to learn and became an employment agency for “teachers” busy engaging in lefty indoctrination. The nonsense that I have heard from my kids teachers caused me to go to a Parent/Teacher meeting and demand my money back. The best part of it is when they are confronted with a non-pliant parent they become very defensive (they rather remind me of Warmists trying to defend the “consensus”).

I have heard all sorts of pious drivel over the years as to why the standards of education have declined despite ever increasing pay scale and declining class sizes (two things that were supposed to garauntee improvement in educational quality). None of them made sense. When I attended school there were sixty kids in my first-grade class, at the end of the year we all had learned to read and do basic addition and subtraction (I am still afraid of nuns however).

Too often teachers forget they work for us and assume that they are empowered to replace us.

Frightfully, far too many parents allow that to happen.