>>672957I also agree with you, but…
You kids are like medical doctors who treat the symptoms, not the cause. I lived through and observed the cause. It started with Woodrow Wilson, "We must make our young men as much unlike their fathers as possible".
Then along comes the problems caused by "No child left behind"! That SLOWS DOWN the pace of teaching to the slower students.
The source of the problem is caused by taking the schools away from the states, and under federal control. That placed the school teaching materials and AGENDA under federal control.
That eliminated competition between the publishers.
That evolved to COMMON CORE!