Sad state of public education

So sad, the state of current public education. Attempts to discredit and discontinue charter schools. No attempt to encourage Christian or Catholics schools. Attempts to cater to Muslim or atheistic beliefs. No attempt to foster learning at all costs, even the cost of failure and expulsion. Locally an AP class spent their last few days of high school helping the local dogs of our county dog pound. Doing what you ask? The article did not specify.

What's school for? More teachers, apparently. Nationwide, student enrollment decreased by 157,000 students but teachers increased 81,246 from 2008 to 2009. I kid you not. Productivity is down, spending is up; unions and gov't programs guarantee billions of dollars of waste. Where is the pursuit of academic excellence in this mix? Nowhere. I can prove it with examples in Ohio with our local Ohio University scandal from the coach to the quarterback and on down. Student athletes are nothing but commodities, gridiron meat, sacred and cottled.

A parallel universe exists in our public grammar and high schools and colleges where there's no rigor or excellence in education because that risks students feeling bad about themselves by failing to acheive, by not graduating or by dropping out.