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Was Public School Created To Make Factory Workers?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Importance of Consistency in Education

The U.S. went through this kind of strange transformation in the times of cable where the wants, the wants, not the needs of children became paramount for advertising agencies. You have to get your kid tested to see if they qualify for a gifted program and you have to make an effort to even care enough to put them into it. No one's just going to like come and take you under their wing, you know, and put you in the gifted program. It's something that the parents have to be cognizant of and be aware of and then also make some outside effort to get their kid in that track.

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