Business wants employees who can think—creatively, innovatively and critically. You don’t get that by pushing a lot of standardized tests. So I think business might push for real education and for tying funding to something meaningful.

They also have the smarts to figure it out. Educators don’t. No one listens to the teachers in the trenchs—they are the ones who see the results of funding by the numbers. The politicians have proved they can’t solve it.

So we might as well give business a chance, they can’t screw it up worse than it is and they may even fix it—at least some of it.

That said, the parents raising these “special,” entitled kids need to change, too!

BTW, Is your school private?

What do you think the role of business ought to be? Will they make things better or worse?

Education will continue traveling straight down in a hand basket as long as funding is tied to tests and numbers and not to actual learning/thinking.

According to polls, Americans are approximately as likely to believe in flying saucers as in evolution, and when one-fifth of Americans believe that the sun orbits the Earth… and Sarah Palin, who, according to Fox News, didn’t realize that Africa was a continent rather than a country.”

And then, of course, there is the minor problem of parents who complain any time their little darlings have too much homework or doesn’t get the grade to which the parents feel they are entitled.

If you want a real look at what’s happening in schools take a look at CandidProf, who guests on my blog and is an astronomy professor in a state college.

Sorry about the rant, this is a sore subject with me.