After reading some of the things people post on Facebook and Twitter and then having an e-mail argument with my sons’ barely literate soccer coach*, I’m even more concerned about the sad state of education in the United States.
Even John Cusack needs help.
I asked the students in my Business and Professional Writing class if they ever had to diagram a sentence. I was happy to see that most of them had, and they had done it in middle school.
Clearly some teachers are paying attention to fundamentals.
So can anyone explain this?
Or this?
I’d better not watch “Waiting for Superman” if I want to stay out of a fetal position.
*The apostrophe placement is correct; my sons play on the same team.
Observe and report 
In the current climate of “education is elitism,” I do not see a visible improvement any time soon. If anything, ignorance is worn as a badge of honor.
So tragic.
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“Tragic” is a good word. Children in this country are lagging behind the world in so many areas. This does not bode well for the future of America in the world’s economic and power system.
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