WHAT IS REALLY WRONG WITH THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

I watched a Stossel show on Fox last night about our educational system.  I admire his attempt...but he lives in a bubble and does not really know why Americans are "dumbing down."  Like many people, he does not appear to apply common sense to some facts that are absolutely ludicrous.

For instance, last night he showed a crying woman who complained that her daughter was graduating from the sixth grade and did not know how to spell GIRL.  She blamed the  teachers by saying that "teachers don't care"

Applying common sense to that statement:  before graduating, the girl has had at least six teachers who attempted to teach her how to spell GIRL.  Isn't it illogical to think that all six teachers did not care and were incompetent.  Why didn't the mother teach her?  Why was she allowed to graduate from the 6th grade?  Is it possible that the student did not want to learn how to spell girl?  Give me a break! 

I don't know why this child does not know how to spell GIRL, but I do know what is the biggest problem with our educational system in America.

The school system that I teach in got sued last year by some parents and won.  Now, short of committing murder, a student cannot be expelled, and other forms of punishment are limited.  In the schools where the male students wear their pants almost down to their knees, they must be allowed to do so.  I have actually seen males walking the halls holding on to their pants to keep them from falling to the floor.  These students say that it gives them "swag."  This "swag" mentality is a pollutant to the minds of the male students.

IF PARENTS WILL SEND SUDENTS TO SCHOOL WILLING TO LEARN, THE TEACHERS WILL TEACH THEM.

INSTEAD, SOME PARENTS SEND IN UNCIVILIZED CHILDREN WHO CONTAMINATES THE CIVILIZED STUDENTS AND INHIBITS THE TEACHER'S ABILITY TO TEACH THE WHOLE CLASS.

Instead of blaming the schools, our deteriorating culture needs a major overhaul, especially in the poverty communities.  One of the reasons, but certainly not the only reason, that people live in poverty is the way they THINK about how to live their lives.  It has nothing to do with their IQ, but it is the way they LOOK AT LIFE, and too many times they blame others for their failures instead of taking responsibility for how their lives have turned out.