Despite apparent improvements, a closer look at the test scores of basic skills places young Texans in 39th place for SAT scores. In 1984, the State adopted the Texas Educational Assessment of Minimal Skills that established minimal standards for graduation. Students are taught strategies to pass the text. This is not progress and the test is, essentially, meaningless. The school will be the community, the community the school.
Individualism is bad.
Conforming to the group is good. Students will learn to write love letters and lab notes. You may want to read this again. The then-head of the NEA was talking about turning the school day into one devoted to just about everything other than the teaching of reading, writing and arithmetic. The change incorporated into today's educational programs is intended to change the entire social structure of our society and the values that had made it great.