Quote:I don't listen to either one.  I listen to the young men and women that come into my workplace daily.  When I've asked them about the American Revolution, the Civil War, slavery, the economy, etc. they are at a loss.  Some of the things that they are taught in government schools is unbelievable.

 

Most of the kids I talk to who come in to my place of business know plenty about the American Revolution, the civil war, slavery, and more. .  And they're kids from public schools.  My own kids know plenty too--and they too attend public schools.  In fact I know what much of the kids in at least one class is being taught--because my wife is a teacher.   I know the kids in my wife's Government class can name the first ten amendments to the US Constitution--and I know a couple of people who went to fancy private schools that can't do that.

 

I do know at least one kid who isn't learning much in public schools--but that's because his grandparents coddle him.  (They're conservatives, for the record.  And they don't think he needs an education.  They see 'education' as 'liberal indoctrination')

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