The Tragedy Of

American Public Schools

To the Editor:

America’s public schools are expensive and are the most overrated school system in the entire industrialized world. Is it any wonder that our engineering universities are running out of potential students and are having to continuously lower their admission standards?

Only seven percent of the public high school graduates in the United States have enough math and science background to be accepted by an engineering college. The colleges have responded by turning to foreign students, home schoolers, and religious and private schools for their students.

Here we are heading into a very high-tech future and we are turning out fewer and fewer American engineers, technicians, and scientists. American public schools are a dismal dumbed down disaster.

The future of American science, innovation, and creativity, will no doubt, come from mostly foreign students, home schoolers, religious and private school graduates. The question one has to ask is this: “Does American public schools need drastic reforms?” The answer is: You better believe it!

Marcel LeRoi

474 South Flathill Road, Southbury                      January 23, 2004