Meaningless education

Current public education is meaningless. Gifted and talented children in kindergarden already? High school students receiving fitness awards even though their performance on a battery of tests is only in the 50th percentile? Why even present a Presidential award for fitness to achievers of the 85th percentile? Do agility, endurance, speed, muscular strength and flexibility fulfil the definition of education? Can a 4 or 5 year old be identified as gifted and talented or other children just mediocre and normal? I've had it with the waste of money on the state of affairs in public education. I'll cite a 3rd example in which a teacher instructed her class about the 5 most evil villains in history - Hitler, Manson, Geo. W.Bush, Dick Cheney and Osama bin Laden. How can the horror of such instruction be allowed?

Education should be the 'drawing out' of the mind. The body is secondary. Privatize schools at all levels - elementary, high, college, university. Eliminate pre-school. Make kindergarden optional. Kill off education degrees, replacing them with degrees in a subject dear to a teacher's heart and then turn the teacher loose.