As you study the decline of our public schools and see the tsunami of sophistry and deceit, you start to wonder: who promotes all this stuff?  Who defends it?  No normal person would want our public schools to be increasingly mediocre.  What's going on? It's not easy when you're on the outside to answer these questions.  You can see the dysfunctional theories and methods operating in public schools.  But the people responsible for the quackery are not likely to claim credit.  Sure, they may brag to each other.  But the public in general is thought to be ignorant rubes who are not entitled to know very much.  (The public is probably regarded as The Enemy.) So I was delighted when a mother wrote to me about her experiences with a local school.  Long story short, she irritated the principal so much that the principal actually told the truth. Parent X wrote: My oldest daughter attended private school K-8....(Read Full Article)