Our
inefficient schools prove to be a waste of so much of our
educational funds. They appear to do more for the welfare of the
teachers than they do the kids being taught.
As
an example I refer to Prof. Walter E. Williams, in a past column.
Professor Williams, is now retired as head of the Economics Dept. of
George Mason University but still actively writes and comments about
his specialty.
According
to one survey, Dr. Williams says, only 28% of students can identify
the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. And fewer than 25% of students knew that George Washington was the
first president of the United States.
And
that only 26% of students knew that the first ten amendments to the
Constitution are called the Bill of Rights.
Years
ago, kids did better, when they sat, 30 and 40 to a class, and in
one-room school houses. And so did the taxpayers funding their
education do better. (See the Earl J Weinreb NewsHole® comments and
@BusinessNewshole tweets.)
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