No one is teaching them to perform these simple basic skills. Children are coming out of schools uneducated as a direct result of the federal policies which implement radical behavior modification instead of the teaching of academics. Gone is the liberal arts education that provides well-rounded academic teaching. Gone is the freedom of choice to the student to make his own decisions. Gone is student individuality and all of the creativity that goes with it.
Individualism is the unique essence of Western civilization.
America's children are now being assessed for their abilities, placed on specific tracking paths, licensed, checked and registered for a lifetime of servitude in the government-controlled economy. Their grades, attitudes and actions will be noted and placed in electronic government records which will be used and added to for the rest of their lives. Such information is even now being made available to potential employers, police forces, social workers and psychologists, to be used at their discretion. Schools are replacing diplomas with skills certificates which indicate that the student has been through his assigned training courses. There is now pressure on the present Congress to require employers to hire only those who hold such certificates.