Yes, the reality of the socialist world, decide who to dispose of so you can live, who is expendable and is bogging your life down, those are who to rid the world of... sounds like planned parenthood in disguise? (And a poor disguise at that.)

The reason the students don't pay respect to teachers is because they aren't being taught ethics and morals, and they don't learn it from home because there were no teachers who taught their parents either. Not speaking about you, btw, but many school systems fill their posts with those who not only don't model good examples of citizenship, but are the very opposite of good examples. Take Hillsborough County FL as a poor example.

Our students are behind the rest of the world because we dumbed education down. Those students who needed more were ferreted out to special programs where they sat without any general education coursework and for which the school was able to collect "learning disabled student" funds: much more than the fee per regular student paid. Once the rest of their class had risen to their level, usually 2 years, they were placed back into the general class.

Without textbooks and teachers to teach the truth of history and science, there is no reason for any student to try and better the world, they have nothing to compare what could be and is with what was.

Under the guise of not teaching morality, immorality is taught.

Teachers are not being taught what they need to know while in college. The cycle's deterioration began long ago...in the 70s when I published a thesis warning the Christians about isolating their children from the public school, and how that would cause the public school to become even less Godly than it already was becoming then. Was it only rumor that the colleges themselves are working to go to a 5 year basic program because so many high school graduates don't even enter college with the once good level of education and they feel they must educate them, thus the added year?

That the Ten Commandments are not allowed in the school system is bosh too... "For fear that a student might read them day after day and actually hold to them" was the report of excuse. Yes, God forbid that our children should not murder, commit adultery, or fear a higher power than themselves.

Hmmm thought my rant was over, but I guess not

My lesser degrees are in education, btw. So I do not speak from ignorance.

I appreciate all teachers who are in there trying to educate our youth of today. Unfortunately, they can't do it alone, and until we go back to respecting each other, and teaching respect, and modeling respect, I doubt any major changes will take place.

The computer age has contributed to this. It's truly the ME generation with a twist: it's ME RIGHT NOW! So many spend hours on a computer with instant gratification that they are incapable of being patient and waiting. (Think road rage.) They deserve this and that and they deserve it right now. Parents have bought into this lie also. So you have whiney child who is just plain lazy and isn't learning how to learn, controlling his parent who in turn feels injustice has been done to her child and heaps coals onto the fire under the teacher. The principal, also inept at managing such a raging epidemic of ignorance, spends their time keeping groups and others who could help the situation out of their school, and attending seminars proclaiming the state of the child. And the children spend hours on a computer and still can't figure out how to google a question. Ask them how to upload a naughty picture onto Myspace though, and they'll aptly show you.

There's no reason for any rational person to become upset over the school system now, for we have truly been silenced. We no longer know what is good for our children and grandchildren, only the State knows that...and because parents are generally incompetent, the State is going to try and make you place your child into the educational system at age 3 or right as soon as you have potty trained them. Perhaps they will hire college flunkies to do that for us in the future too.

I am convincing myself of the good of homeschooling as I type. Be well!