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That the Jay Leno Show has a regular feature called "Jay Walking" where adults are stumped by simple facts that most reasonably educated people should know tells you something about the current state of affairs in our educational system. I saw another bit on the Jimmy Kimmel show where people had a tough time drawing their own home state. I'm sure that most educators are doing the best that they can under the circumstances. But is that good enough? I'd say probably not, since our students seem to get out performed in most categories by students in other counties. Of course those comparisons are only in subjects like math & science. I'm sure if we looked at criteria such as feelings or empathy or some other psycho-dribble, our kids would be at the top of the heap. But in the real world, you don't get credit for just showing up. Take the federal government out of education completely & have the state government responsible only for setting uniform standards & graduation criteria. The majority of the education responsibility should be taken at the local level. Because when someone says that charter schools & vouchers is just a way to profit from an untapped market, I say that the market is already being capitalized on by the current Box-O-Learning system. And it's clearly not doing the job.