Frank,
I agree with you.
I know many teachers. It is not speculation that our children do not know many of the answers. When it comes to American history, they miss most of the answers. This once great nation we call USA, moved the world forward, faster than any before it and is being forgotten because we are no longer living by our traditional values and morals. We are not teaching them to the next generation. We do not expect or demand greatness from ourselves anymore. We spend much of our time simply entertaining ourselves (smartphones and Facebook) while the world now passes us by. Our founding fathers warned that we would lose our Republic from within, from our success leading us to be so comfortable that we forgo our responsibilities to scrutinize those we send to Washington to represent us. Each generation knows less and less as to how we are to hold our politicians accountable for the actions they take that are supposed to be on our behalf. How else could such poor performance lead to life long careers in government. It is so disappointing.
Thought Zollnick’s virtual deafening from the many prompts was clever.
In modern schools, I’m told the prompting has plummeted.
Fewer appear to know the answers.
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Frank,
I agree with you.
I know many teachers. It is not speculation that our children do not know many of the answers. When it comes to American history, they miss most of the answers. This once great nation we call USA, moved the world forward, faster than any before it and is being forgotten because we are no longer living by our traditional values and morals. We are not teaching them to the next generation. We do not expect or demand greatness from ourselves anymore. We spend much of our time simply entertaining ourselves (smartphones and Facebook) while the world now passes us by. Our founding fathers warned that we would lose our Republic from within, from our success leading us to be so comfortable that we forgo our responsibilities to scrutinize those we send to Washington to represent us. Each generation knows less and less as to how we are to hold our politicians accountable for the actions they take that are supposed to be on our behalf. How else could such poor performance lead to life long careers in government. It is so disappointing.
Thought Zollnick’s virtual deafening from the many prompts was clever.
In modern schools, I’m told the prompting has plummeted.
Fewer appear to know the answers.