Where Is The Accountibility In Education?

"There are countries which don't get the bang for the bucks, and the U.S. is one of them'

We're spending over $10,000 per student per year to educated our kids to a substandard level (14th of 25 nations studied - the 56th percentile).

And it's not as if all that money is going to pay for basic supplies like paper, pencils, crayons or stuff that kids might need. No, those costs are increasingly being shouldered by the parents - to the tune of several hundred dollars per year for stuff that their kid most likely will never be use.

And what are we getting for all this? Kids that have trouble reading and writing? Kids that can't handle basic algebra or geometry? Or how about kids that identify even the most basic of our foundational documents like the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence?

But they do understand the mechanics of mother government: confiscation of personal property so that it can be redistributed as the powers see fit. They understand the importance of cultural relevancy. They know all about Kwanzaa, but have no clue about the origins of Christmas or Hanukkah. They know more about the history of tribal Africa than they do about the history of their own state or nation.

They know that competition is bad. They know that "they are all winners."

They come out of the system completely ill-equipped to deal with the real world where there is competition, complete with winners and losers. They are unable to cope with our political system, which is vastly more complex than the tribal utopias they studied in school. They are unable to fathom that obtaining something requires more than asking an authority figure for it. At no point have they ever had to concepts of personal responsibility or the value of hard work reinforced.

It really ticks me off when the schools and educrats turn and blame the parents for failing to "teach these important concepts" as they build a system that undermines those very concepts. I try to teach my kids the importance of reading and studying so that they truly know the material only to have the school undermine my efforts by making it entirely possible to not only pass, but to thrive, by simply doing homework. There is no need to expend the effort to read or to learn when you can simply fill in the blanks on a homework sheet, claim testing problems, and get out of the class with an "A". Where's the need for personal responsibility for learning when learning isn't even being required for an education any more?

So what are we getting for our $10,000+ per year? Kids without classrooms (my kids each shared their "pods" or room with four other classes)? Education without learning? Kids that can't read, write, or doing basic arithmetic, but that buy into the concept of moral and cultural relevancy? Kids that are afraid to make basic judgments about right and wrong for fear of offending?

$10,000+ per year and we're getting kids that have to be reeducated if they are to succeed in becoming anything other than functional wards of the state. When are we as parents and taxpayers going to stand up and demand some sort of accountability on the part of the educrats? They are failing us and failing our kids while hiding behind the "for the children" mantra, all while promoting a new social agenda based around a statist approach to society.

Our schools are there to educate our children, not to indoctrinate them. Our schools need to spend more time teaching the basics needed for success rather than the virtues of relevetism.

Ten thousand a year for what we get now is a rip-off.