"A child miseducated, is a child lost"

Heaven knows, we spend plenty on educating our kids. The latest report card has come out and it ain't pretty.

Only about one-quarter are performing proficiently or better in math and just 4 in 10 in reading. And they're not improving. When I was a kid, I thought everyone was smarter than I.  They excelled in academics and we didn't have computers. Kids read.  They went to the library all of the time and they studied.  Game playing and extra-curricular activities were allowed when and if you did your three hour homework assignments every night and your report card was good.

It makes you wonder if it's because a large percentage of these failing students come from "entitlement" families.  "Don't worry, the government will take care of you from cradle to grave," and those parents who don't take the time to help their children get ahead. The report reinforces concerns that large numbers of today's students are unprepared for either college or the workplace. Pretty scary as China and Russia move ahead and we are being treated with no respect across the globe other than for our borrowed money as we dish it out for everything imaginable excepting for protecting Americans who are protecting us.

"We're seventh in literacy, 27th in math, 22nd in science, 49th in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, No. 4 in labor force, and No. 4 in exports. ... So when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the f*** you're talking about," said Aaron Sorkin. These statistics should worry everyone.

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"A child miseducated is a child lost." John F. Kennedy