re: #85 marjoriemoon

I don’t at all. We deserve a whole lot better. We work like animals, much more than the Europeans. The fact that our educational system is in the crapper is because of Republicans, not Democrats.

That article really pissed me off. I know we have issues with education, but to say that Obama talks over the heads of Americans is a load of BS. It’s just some moron trying to push the “Democrats = elitist” agenda.

Oh? And it’s most particularly in the crapper in states such as North Dakota, Republican strongholds? Or is perhaps education worse in the cities that Democrats have ruled since before the beginning of time?

Who brought us “whole word” reading? California Democrats. Who brought us New Math, with its “progressive” emphasis on concepts, to the exclusion of any knowledge of basic facts such as the times table? Who brought us teachers unions, and with it, the impossibility of dismissing even teachers with no knack for teaching and little enthusiasm for it?

Just because Republicans are responsible for the gutting of biology instruction in many public school systems is no reason to let the democrats off the hook for having made a mess of the teaching of reading, writing, and arithmetic. Without these, no true understanding of evolution is possible in any case.