President Obama spoke recently about our country now has the highest high school graduation rate ever, EVER! 80 some odd percent.
Well, figures lie and liars figure. We also have the lowest overall results in test results against other developed countries ever, EVER! We have been sliding down the scale for awhile, not just in the last seven years.
Does it surprise you that the totality of the situation is neglected by a politician who wants to maintain support with a key electorate? This is true on both sides of the aisle. What is the data? Does it support your fairy tale picture, the Potemkin village of our system to educate our kids?
This last weekend the NAACP voted to stop charter school expansion. This in the face of protests by organizations within the NAACP. Why, to support the teacher unions of course, not our kids.
Education is one of the keys to our prosperity we are blessed with today. Public education is certainly one of the reasons we are where we are today. Competition in our business system is also one of the reasons we constantly seem to provide jobs and investment opportunities so to grow. We have competition in educating our kids from birth to 5, and from 18 years of age on. We have no competition from 5-18, unless you have money and can send your kids to private school, or the time and ability to home school.
We are killing the system that got us here and the progressive movement is a major part of the killing.