Keep up the good work as best as you can! And thank you!

Years ago in my town a union rep said he wouldn't be happy until all students are bused. Today his dream is a reality. The roads are clogged several times a day and my school taxes are through the roof and his "dream" is part of it - side note: I didn't vote for any of this!

Never confuse "schooling" with "education."

I teach freshman English in a local college. It's bad. On the first day of class, I hand out worksheets so they can teach themselves how to read and write cursive. The semester lasts 16 weeks, so there's only so much I can do in such a limited amount of time.

I said years ago, and held up to it (to the tune of a small fortune) that I wasn't going to inflict "public school" on my kids.
My daughter has a Master's Degree and is currently studying to take the MCAT.
I think that:
1) the teacher's unions (and all Federal worker unions, for that matter) should be abolished.
2) local businesses and parent groups should determine curriculum and content, based on the needs of the community
3) parents should pay for their own kids' education
4) "busing" should be eliminated. Parents should be allowed to enroll their kids in schools of their choice, and not to be moved around and have their friends picked for them because of some Democrat's plan for race mixing.
5) "government schools" should be a last resort to teach the incorrigible delinquents how to collect garbage.
The one thing that has destroyed this country more than anything else is symbolized by the yellow school bus.

Even scarier when one considers what some of those workplaces might be: operating rooms, airplane cockpits, pharmaceutical companies, etc.

It's a shame there are school districts in some large cities that suck up billions in tax dollars yet their graduates are functionally illiterate. There are plenty of examples of poor grammar and bad spelling flooding the Internet. I used to think, "don't people bother proofreading their writing anymore?", but now I'm thinking, "they don't know any better!". Yes, everyone makes mistakes now and then, but errors are becoming the norm.

Or read - many kids coming out of HS say they don't need to know how - they can take a picture of the words on a page and ask ChatGPT to read it to them. What a mess that is going to be in the work place in a couple of years....

When I saw the report with the video of a teacher in California leading her second grade class on a protest of ICE all I could think of were newsreels of the Chinese cultural revolution under Mao. Same with all the protests in high schools and colleges across our land. These kids are clueless. It seems they can quote Marx and spew out the latest left wing narratives, but can't balance a checkbook.