Family - #401 - #12 – What are “public” schools supposed to teach?

What’s more important? …..

1. How to get a job? …What is “money” and how to use it wisely …
2. What is good health?
3. What is lawful? .. i.e. “right vs. wrong” … private property …. violence and physical harm…..
4. Reading
5. Writing
6. Arithmetic
7. History?…. Ethnic history? … European and Global history? … American history? …. Etc.
8. Self esteem and confidence … (whatever these mean!)
9. Family, marriage, children, and sex
10. Anti discrimination, and, moral values
11.Logic and Reason
12. What is America? . .. What it is supposed to stand for? …. What is unique?… What is patriotism?

So, what’s your choice? …. How many do you choose?
What is your “priority” of choice?
Where do you find the qualified “teachers” of these choices?
What do you expect the result to be? … How do we “measure” success?

Although we spend more money on “Education” (whatever that means!) than any other single budget item except National Defense, what should we be teaching? What is included in “Education”?

What do we do with students that are….
1. not interested
2. not disciplined
3. not motivated
4. don’t speak the English language
5. medically, mentally not equipped to enter a “regular” school. (what part of the financial budget is reserved for these “special cases” and what does it take away from the operations and activities of the “regular “ schools? (What do they have to give up?)

These are enough questions. What’s the answers to at least these questions? To whom do we look give us answers? Why are we willing to expend so much of our hard earned “treasure” if we can’t get the answers? …. What are “public schools” supposed to teach?