Hmmmm?

I rarely post on education, thinking of my late father and the private high school campus I grew up on and went to compelled me tonight. The state of our public educational system is abysmal. I noted this twenty odd years ago when I got booted from said high school for drinking on campus two days prior to the end of the junior year and thus got to enter the public school system, one of the best in the southeast at the time, mom made sure she lived in the best district after the divorce. I made honor roll and slept through class and maintained a 3.75 gpa. They barely caught up with my eighth grade year and this was my senior year.
My math and reading skills don't come from the schools I went to they came from my parents, dad, a Marine Sgt, math teacher and a largely homeschooled southern farm girl mom. I learned digits and dirt, english and mechanics, hard work and responsibility and most importantly how to stand proud for America. With the money we spend we can do far better than we are doing, the teacher's unions and the gay/socialist agenda are now forcing the indoctrination of your children (I have a precious neice) into acceptance of their lifestyle.
I don't know , I come from an era when we figured out differential equations on paper in class to pass calculus or actually were required to know something about the Crusades or Peloponysian War or even where Iraq was on the globe to get a grade. I wonder can we stick to reading, writing,math, science and unvarnished history. I had the luck of having two of the best history teachers american highschools had to offer at the time, one still active. I would love to sit in on a few of Dr. Cooper's classes today, he could easily teach at a top university.
Untill we remove the beauracracy of unions and government from our schools we will continue to slide backward on the world scale. We need to be pushing that scale up notches not falling behind. Our teachers need to educate not indoctrinate our kids, all this self esteem garbage and feminist BS needs to be thrown out the window. Kids need to compete on the merits of their own strenths inorder to find out what those strengths are so they can make a better choice for the future. They need to develope an I am good at this attitude and excell in it.
Yea at onetime I wanted to be a world class soccer star which moved to rock musician ,my trade has lasted through all those and now I am very good at my chosen trade, own my house in California and work for a top firm.My point is, we desparately need to bring back trade schools at our highschool level, they are in demand and pay well, tradesmen that is and apprentices.
If you are interested in a top notch college prep school for your youngens, email me or comment and I will mail you some info. This is a private campus worth considering especially if you are in the south east. A slice of Alabama heaven bordering a State Park, my neice will go there.