Bill Lee: “America's students are failing. Reading and math scores are at historic lows nationwide. In places like Baltimore, 40…”

“America's students are failing. Reading and math scores are at historic lows nationwide. In places like Baltimore, 40 percent of high schools don't even have a single math-proficient student--not a single one. Forty percent of the schools in Baltimore can't find a single math-proficient student. This must be a wake-up call because those school districts aren't alone. There are others that are failing. And yes, there is a wide array of performance outcomes in school districts across the country, but this kind of trend is being seen more and more seemingly every day. So it has to be a wake-up call, and it is proof that our education system has lost its way. It has betrayed its charge and lost our trust. Now, to be clear--to be perfectly clear--our students' failures are not of their own making. Those failures are the unintended yet undeniable consequences and the students the innocent victims of a one- size-fits-all education system that has ventured into the business of ideological conformity, forsaking our children's literacy for the pursuit of social engineering. American classrooms have become arenas where history is rewritten, and parents--the rightful stewards of their children's futures--are marginalized or in some instances labeled as ``domestic terrorists'' just for questioning this new order. It comes as no surprise that parents are seeking alternative ways to educate their children.…”