As I sit in the library, a bunch of 4th grade students have a book in front of them and are pretending to read when I'm watching. When I'm not watching, they return their conversations.
I posted 2 articles on Facebook this morning that show the decline of public education. First, a group of people calling themselves part of the "tea-part" have declared war on public education from kindergarten through universities.
Second, the federal government has decided that school libraries are not important and have completely removed funding set aside for school libraries in the "Improving Literacy through School Libraries" "grant".
Maybe we need to go back to the idea of "optional" education. Kids who want an education attend school and those that don't can stay home and work with their parents. One problem with this idea is that parents don't work either and this idea would create chaos and crime; even more than has already occurred.
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