The Direction of Teaching in America

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As a former teacher, I was dismayed at times about the quality of teachers who were shaping impressionable young minds in public schools. I was shocked that they knew so little and often were proud that they were ignorant. Too many teachers were not ashamed to admit that they were weak in history, mathematics, literature, science, geography, physics, and chemistry. I watched such teachers like a hawk at my children’s schools. Every day I knew the lessons and the topics they covered. I monitored my children’s learning all the time even when they seemed tired of my questioning them. We went over homework, words, concepts, capitals, historical dates, math tables, spelling words, and cursive writing. It was a joy at the beginning of the school year to shop for school supplies with my children at Walmart and to organize the famous Trapper Keepers for each child.