Quote Originally Posted by Marigold2 View Post
Sports are great but not if the child cannot read or write, sports should never come before grades. That however is what it has come too. And that is one reason our kids are not doing as well as those in other countries.
Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human View Post
Get back to teaching academics, get the hell out of the business of teaching morals and social programs in school, and leave parenting to the parents. That's my job, not Society's.

Agree TOTALLY with both of you!!


Sadly our schools here are so sports focused, that they've built a new track, olympic sized pool, and a new football field but kids are still having to share books and some of those books are so old the kid's parents names are written in them. If they so much as talk about charging more for sports, limiting the number of sports a child can play in one year, or cutting things back in general, the parents get in a huge uproar.

In comparing my education to my husbands, he was taught ALOT more about history and historical figures than I was. In our school math was no longer a required class after 9th grade, my husband was required to take math all the way through H.S. Our school thought it was a wonderful idea to teach careers. The only thing they offered was white collar, high paying, desk job type careers and to work on the school paper you had to be an honor student, it wasn't an elective class.

I've also noticed children from other countries tend to be taught two languages from a very young age. Our schools won't even let you take the language classes until 9th or 10th grades.