Remember going to school and receiving an education? That was a given up to about 20 or 30 years ago. The education system in the United States is worthless, based on my opinion. I taught for 40 years, although in special education, but I had no choice for the last 25 years of my career to take my special ed kids into the gen ed classroom for Math, Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts. For the most part there is very little direct instruction taking place in the classroom, especially now that all the kids have Chromebooks and teachers can simply post assignments and the teachers read what has been assigned and answer questions that are either pre-published or written by the teacher. The fact that a student can spend the entire school day on a Chromebook and have little interaction with the teacher is not teaching. The kids might as well be playing a video game, which some of them do anyway.

Am I saying that teachers have become a bunch of lazy slobs that pick and choose selections that they have been provided access to making their jobs nothing but fun and games? Yes, for a few select teachers that want the benefits and salary without having to work for it. There are still many teachers that would love to teach the old fashioned way by standing in fron of the classroom and providing direct instruction to their students. The powers that be have jumped on the band wagon and insisting that their staff use the "modern method" of instruction. Administration shoves test scores down the throats of teachers and curriculum is selected that supposedly is going to have the students achieve at high levels, and school boards have taken the bait and sit back and wait for the magic to happen. They are only fooling themselves and the students are receiving a third-rate education. It can be fixed, but it never will be.