It's often said in life that no good deed goes unpunished.

 I want now to assure you that in K-12 education no good idea goes unpunished.

I think this pattern is glaring from one end of education to the other. But most people are specialized; they are not aware of what everybody else is doing.

So I want to invite everyone to consider that the chaos and decline in their own area is exactly like the chaos and decline in every other area. And there is a reason for that. Our Education Establishment is a creature of ideology. Teaching kids a lot of information is not interesting to them. Teaching kids to be good little collectivists is very interesting to them.

 So that's why we're in the mess we are in.

This is a fairly good article if you want an overview. If you  have the time to look at the comments that people leave on American Thinker, you can learn very quickly how the outside world views what is happening in K-12. (They hate it.)

 "Department of Education! You raise 'em! We raze 'em."

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/11/department_of_educa...