Quote:I exited public school in the early '80's. My point of view might seem "outdated" to someone much younger than me.


That being said, school is about learning. That's been taken away on so many levels. In today's schools, kids don't actually learn, they are indoctrinated and in a vast majority of the cases it's to the left. What do schools teach about guns? What about the civil war? What about the civil rights fight? Instead of actual FACTS students are taught OPINION.


I don't doubt that you or other teachers do an excellent job, but let me ask you this since you're a PE coach. I don't know what grade you teach, but it doesn't really matter. Would you allow your students to play "smear the queer"? What about dodge ball? Are any of your students allowed to "lose" a game? Are any allowed to fail? I ask this because failure is a very important lesson to teach.


Take a look at today's "millennials". They (along with many liberals) can't handle the fact that a "conservative" (or Republican) is going to enter the White House in a couple of days. Many "protests" are planned for the inauguration because they actually can't handle the fact that they LOST.

No. I don't play "smear the queer" because no one plays that. I do a form of dodgeball but with not those big red rubber balls you probably used. Kids lose all the time in my class and they learn how to handle losing and what they can learn from it.


Failure is an extremely important of life and I teach that to every student who has come through my school. Just today I told a kid "look. There will be people better than you at things. That just means you need to work harder."


Public schools have a lot of really great teachers. There are also bad teachers but I grew up in a public school and teach at one so I think there is a lot of good that goes on. Kids are allowed to be creative and read about almost anything they want. Maryland and Montgomery County where I teach has a lot of positives.


So you may think it's one thing but in reality, it could be very different. Every kid is different and public school doesn't work for everyone but it works for a lot of kids.

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