What's Most Important In Education?

What's the most important thing for an educational system: to actually educate kids or to protect the system for the benefit of the teachers? In France, it is the latter (as it is increasingly becoming the truth in the US as well).

It's interesting to read about the changes to the educational system that France made in the late '60s and how they have failed. French kids today are slipping as the student to teacher ratio declines. And the union thinks that this is acceptable.

There is no excuse for this.

It's scary to see the NEA attempting to head down the same road here in America. They have already watered down the system so much, it's pitiful. Kids can get well into high school before they ever find out about the Greco-Roman foundations of the nation. They'll know all about Kwanzaa and ancient Chinese history, but don't even think of asking them where we got democracy or the republic from. Don't ask why the Magna Carta might be important. And whatever you do, don't ask about the religious underpinnings of our own Revolution and founding.

They're simply not taught. Diversity training is more important than understanding our nation. It is more important to learn about other cultures than it is to learn why they are free to exist in this country. Education has become secondary to indoctrination.

We haven't gotten to the same point as France, but we're coming pretty close. I just hope my kids can graduate before the educational system completely drops the education component.

At least at home we're teaching them to read and to think for themselves. The school wants our role as parents, I guess we need to pick up their role as educators.