Monthly Archives: February 2008

“School days, school days, dear ole golden rule days, reading, writing and arithmetic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick.”
 
When I hear about what is going on in schools today, it’s shocking to me. They have become killing fields, full of graduating students that can’t read and vaccinating with poisonous substances. Plus a laundry list of other shock and awes going on. In the tax-supported system, it’s more about indoctrination than education. Sometimes when I’m around young students in middle school or high school, I play a little game by asking them if they bought a dozen oranges for 50 cents and sold them for $1.00 a dozen, would they be making 100% or 50% profit? They invariably say 50%.
 
Several years ago I had a nephew attending a state university. I happened to answer the phone one day when he called his mother. She couldn’t come to the phone so I asked him if I could help with anything. He said he just want to know how to put a quarter in the washing machine. I said, “oh my God, they have educated you beyond the capacity to think!”
 
I grew up in a different era, a time when so much was different than it is today. Living in red clay  country in Northeast Georgia, I rode a bus to a county school. Everyone in the county attended the same school. It was a rather large building of 3 stories, where students started in first grade and attended through high school. It has a large playground area with a gymnasium in one corner and a cute little cottage in another, where we learned home economics.