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<blockquote data-quote="Charlie Zureki" data-source="post: 32483" data-attributes="member: 153">Re: Unbelievable!Hello,&nbsp;&nbsp; The U.S. Department of Education should be abolished, and the teaching curriculum should be back in the hands of the individual States. While it was a great idea to form a nation-wide educational department back in the 60s/70s, new forms of communication has made the consolidation irrelevant.&nbsp;&nbsp; And... it really didn&#039;t accomplish the biggest reason for it&#039;s Consolidation..... to keep an Education standard throughout the U.S.&nbsp; Higher income neighborhoods have better paid and better educated teachers.&nbsp; Higher income neighborhoods have better parental involvement with their student&#039;s educational needs and more involvement with their school boards and teacher&#039;s needs. Higher income neighborhoods have higher achievement from their students. &nbsp;&nbsp; The US school system in many school districts has become a babysitting entity (as someone else had posted).&nbsp; Teachers cannot MAKE students learn....they must be prompted by their parents.&nbsp; &nbsp; Show me a lousy parent...and I&#039;ll show you a lousy student.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; The whole Educational system is a failure, from pre-school to Graduate school. Public Colleges/Universities used to be public....now, their run like a pre Wall Street Bank failure...immense paychecks for those at the top of their food-chain, whom are not Educators, but, dirty business administrators. &nbsp;&nbsp; In the year 1900, proficiency in advanced Mathmatics and the Greek or Latin&nbsp; language was a prerequisite in order to attend many of the big Universities. &nbsp; The Education system has continually dumbed down American students.... next they&#039;ll be adding sedatives to the School kid&#039;s water..... oh wait, there was a huge increase in ritalin&nbsp; usage in the 1990&#039;s&nbsp;&nbsp; Hammer</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlie Zureki, post: 32483, member: 153"] Re: Unbelievable! Hello, The U.S. Department of Education should be abolished, and the teaching curriculum should be back in the hands of the individual States. While it was a great idea to form a nation-wide educational department back in the 60s/70s, new forms of communication has made the consolidation irrelevant. And... it really didn't accomplish the biggest reason for it's Consolidation..... to keep an Education standard throughout the U.S. Higher income neighborhoods have better paid and better educated teachers. Higher income neighborhoods have better parental involvement with their student's educational needs and more involvement with their school boards and teacher's needs. Higher income neighborhoods have higher achievement from their students. The US school system in many school districts has become a babysitting entity (as someone else had posted). Teachers cannot MAKE students learn....they must be prompted by their parents. Show me a lousy parent...and I'll show you a lousy student. The whole Educational system is a failure, from pre-school to Graduate school. Public Colleges/Universities used to be public....now, their run like a pre Wall Street Bank failure...immense paychecks for those at the top of their food-chain, whom are not Educators, but, dirty business administrators. In the year 1900, proficiency in advanced Mathmatics and the Greek or Latin language was a prerequisite in order to attend many of the big Universities. The Education system has continually dumbed down American students.... next they'll be adding sedatives to the School kid's water..... oh wait, there was a huge increase in ritalin usage in the 1990's Hammer [/QUOTE]

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