Submitted by John Spencer Yantiss, Dec 14, 2007 13:23

Thank you, Mr. McIlheran, for the exposé. Once again the NY Sun delivers the truth on an execrable fait accompli of the liberal powers that be. You really nail the key problem in the first paragraph of the second Web page of your aritcle, where you wirte, "'They meet the state standard,' conceded the state's lawyer — 92% of the students score advanced or proficient in reading. That's beside the point, he told the court. Because parents help when children are stuck or act as an on-hand coach, they're the teachers. Such parents are 'unlicensed, untrained, unqualified and, um, adults who are not required to prove competence.'"

Traditionally--of course, that has become a bad word; in the eyes and minds of liberals, tradition is right up there with religious freedom for evangelical Christians, as the worst of the worst--parents were the very ones who not only coached their children in doing their schoolwork, but also established at home a pattern of learning, and the discipline necessary for the professional teachers to conduct classes properly. Also of course, since teachers have abdicated their responsibility for actual teaching, apparently preferring to stand in front of out-of-control juveniles who can threaten them with impunity, and now actively campaign to establish and maintain conditions which make organized learning virtually--no pun intended--impossible, parents are being divested of their own parental authority, and one of their time-honoured roles.

Hurrah! for the modern educational establishment! It strikes another blow for institutionalised, systematic ignorance!!

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