Name:   Talullahhound - Subject:   Last ride in to the sunset Date:   12/7/2016 10:49:58 PM

We're dealing with young people that have never recited the Pledge of Allegance.  They have never had to stand every morning and sing a patriotic song.  I daresay that most of them don't even understand the context of the the National Anthem and how it was written or the times when it was written.  It's like how a certain group does not want slavery mentioned, and they literally have no context about slaves and the economic necessity.   They never remember a time when they had prayer in school.

When I went to HS in 1969, education was changing.  They experimented with open classrooms and pass/fail grades and taking the tests as many times as you needed because "learning the material was more important than the test.  We didn't study classic poetry we studied avant guard. I remember one class when we just had to turn song lyics into poetry.  They decided do put the emphasis on the humanities and not on basic education.  There were discussion about whether education should be compulsery. There was a lot of attention to independent study, rather than a standard curicculum. I think that was the start of what we see in schools today.  Then of course, there came a long period of just passing student through, whether they could read or do basic arithmetic because no one coud be left back.  I guess similar shake ups took place in the South, when schools were desegragated, and there was a lot of turmoil.