the motives of public school teachers are flatly and totally open to suspicion since the NEA became a political organization. the NEA is more active in choosing political leaders than they are filling young minds with knowledge. and when they aren't out politicking, they are protecting incompetent teachers, creating politicized curricula, and turning inner city schools into little prison camps where lives are destroyed before the ripe old age of 17.
and when the free market creates a solution to dysfunctional public schools, namely, a blossoming private school industry, the NEA instructs it's servant, the federal government, to crush them.
If we don't teach rote memorization, how on earth will we excell on standardized tests? You don't want to leave any children left behind do you?
Yes, I agree the teaching of critical thinking and analytical skills is certainly lacking in our education system. It doesn't tend to get any better in college IMO. My mere associates degree about drove me mad with boredom. I love learning, but actual learning seems to require either personal drive or an exceptional teacher.
