This problem is so large that it is impossible to hit upon all that is wrong with it in this Hub. I have my own opinions and I will touch on them now, but this is only scratching the surface, giving you at the very least something to think about as you go about your daily schedule.

Now please understand that it is mandated that students receive United States History once in elementary school, once in middle school and once in high school. So what the heck is going on?

I have to admit that I was still skeptical enough to do my own informal poll of some high school students who I know; they could not tell me what the Revolutionary War was about! They had absolutely no idea and claimed they hadn’t had it yet in school.

What say you now? Still bogus? Please note that those questions were being asked of students who live in Olympia, Washington, the capitol city of the state, and still there were some who thought the capitol city was Seattle. As the kids like to say…..OMG!

Would you really like to gag on your lunch? Watch the following video filmed at our local high school but be prepared to lose it.

You probably have a child that is self-motivated and has always excelled in school and you just don’t think things could possibly be this bad. I had reservations at one time, but slowly those reservations have been eliminated by witnessing the decay of the system up close and personal.

SO WHAT THE HECK IS THE PROBLEM?

I know, there are some of you right now who are saying that this study is bogus, that things aren’t as bad as this study makes them out to be, and I guess I can understand that viewpoint.

I don’t need an international study to tell me what I have known all along, namely Essay Writer that the standard of education has diminished over the three decades that I have been teaching.

Is it a question of investing? The United States spends more per student than any other country tested except Luxembourg, while countries like Estonia and Poland performed at the same level as the United States but spent less than half the amount per student.

According to the U.S. Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, “This is an absolute wake-up call for America. The results are extraordinarily challenging to us and we have to deal with the brutal truth. We have to get much more serious about investing in education.”