I thought that was his brother who did that..?? But I don't really remember. They both have periodically been in the news with some sort of scandal...
Yeah, I agree with that. But I htink it also depends on where you live (at least in the USA). We don't have a nation-wide standardized education curriculum, so some schools in New England may be much better than some schools in Oklahoma.... Even in where I grew up, there were the "bad schools" and the "good schools," but the schools were assigned based on where you lived (poorer areas usually had assigned schools that under-performed. Good teachers didn't want to work there.).
We lived in one of the poorer areas for a few years when I was a kid, and when I went to some of those "bad schools," they didn't really teach me how to read or spell lol. We did TONS of art, and I loved math (so I paid extra attention to that subject...), which was okay, but we did hardly any reading, and never any spelling tests...Some could perhaps argue my parents should have read to me more, but they were both working, stressed, and busy... Apparently, when I was a new student, my parents remember a parent-teacher conference when the teachers announced they were no longer having spelling tests. The kids would learn how to "sound out words," which, ov corse, duz not wurk with inglish! I remember, after we moved to a better area, trying to spell the word "shoes" in middle school. I had no idea I wasn't even close when I wrote it as "shews" until my friendly neighboring classmate spelled it out for me correctly..... x_x I only started learning those basic things once we moved (Thank you Bill Gates for inventing spellcheck and making it so I never had to learn how to spell very well!)...
So, at least based on what I remember from different schools, I think it also may depend on how much money your parents make, which can somewhat dictate where they live and what schools their kids go to... I think that is where the wage discrepancies between different minority groups can have a really negative effect on young children...
That's good to hear!! I did wonder what it might have been like to be Irish during the Troubles...
I wrote a music book a while back and did some history of the Irish to learn more about what the musicians were dealing with in the 1700s. I had no idea it was so dark. The current news is sad, but we have it much easier right now when you start comparing stuff to other historical times... Yeah, I think I was able to see that message!
It's one of those topic that has a lot of layers with different perspectives, but many are not necessarily "wrong." I do think the vast majority of people realize there is a problem with the current system, which is a step in the right direction.
