Aunty must really be behind the times. Lots of dust on this old fossil, apparently.

You see, Aunty thought that the purpose of sending our children to school was so that they could… you know… learn things. Things like how to read and write, how to string words together - properly - in order to be able to effectively communicate, how to perform basic math operations, and maybe even a smattering of those much out-of-fashion things such as contemporary and ancient history, and an appreciation for classic literature. A little art and music might be nice, too.

But Aunty was wrong. Oh, so wrong.

Obviously, Aunty had the priorities of our academic institutions all wrong.

Because it turns out that along with sanitized politically correct reading pablum, revisionist politically correct “history” (do you detect a theme here?) and “estimated spelling” (I kid you not, this is the acceptable form of spelling in our friends’ 1st-grader’s school), the children in our nation’s schools are learning… wait for it…

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