They are teaching students what to think, not how to think, producing politically-correct nonentities. After all, let's face it, how can a student who can't read or do math be a problem solver, critical thinker, and make informed decisions. And even more preposterous is the idea that such students should have high self-esteem, when they can't even read a newspaper or cope with their school work. Those, of course, are meaningless statistics, because we never find out how much these students learn or don't learn. More education no longer means a better education.
Plenty statistics are available that belie the educrats claim of excellence in education.
It's a fact that if a child has difficulty with a subject at school, parents can rectify the problem in short order if they are made aware of it in the first place. Children are not becoming dumber or less willing to learn. Teaching and learning today need not be more complicated than it was 100 years ago. And the same method of teaching by Direct Instruction can be used today that was successfully used years ago, before child-centered learning became fashionable. Home schooling has become popular.