Education problems in DR

The Dominican Republic is an educational wasteland. Less than half the country’s children attend high school, and a significantly lower number graduate. The country spends a little more than 2 percent of its gross domestic product on public education, about 60 percent less than the United States. The culture swallows up generations of youth, and the poverty cycle continues unabated. - - - paragraph from an online article by Jeff Passan about a hot pitching prospect from Arizona whose parents are from the Dominican Republic. 3/15/10

Note from the right jack: We are continuing to dumb down our own public school curriculum. We let students slide along without learning the basics, language and math, in particular. Each subject is just like learning the rules of the different games we play. In time a huge percentage of our once- proud public school population will fall so far behind those who are doing their school work, that they will bring no credible life skills to the world of work. Nada. Walkers outperform sitters. Joggers outperform walkers. Runners outperform joggers.

This is sad, and our government and unionized teachers seem to be a large part of the problem. They are fostering a downward spiral to incompetence and dependence.