It's true that youngsters need to acquire a vast body of practical knowledge in order to successfully navigate the situations that will confront them in life. The SOL program is aimed at creating this common fact bank among all students. Learning should not stop at simple fact-hoarding. Teachers are at their most effective when they show students how to use a foundation of basics to create their own thoughts and ideas. Viewing the SOL requirements as a means rather than an end makes more sense.
Facts create a solid basis for higher understanding.
The SOLs' greatest achievement will be creating consistency in the facts all students can draw upon while reaching loftier goals. But teaching's greatest achievement is showing how to use those facts to soar outside the very boundaries of thought that they create. These illegal contributions, which were followed by the jeopardizing of national security, point to both treason and bribery. The House Judiciary Committee was given full authority to investigate any and all misdeeds that may have occurred during Clinton's watch, yet they ignored damning evidence of bribery and treason, crimes that the American people weren't even made aware of. The evidence that was ignored by Congress should make every American suspicious as to whether other members of Congress were involved in the cover-up.