"....the content of their character." Martin Luther King clearly thought it's important.

 Children in public schools don't hear that message anymore. They're not encouraged to work harder, be all they can be, all that old-fashioned stuff.

 Now it's enough if children slide through at a slovenly level, cutting corners, maybe cheating a little, rarely finishing anything on time.

 The attack on character, I realized in the last year, seems to be just as well organized as the attack on academics. That's a sad thought but unavoidable. if the schools want to prepare children to be on welfare, they are doing a great job.

The country would be better off if schools were stricter and more demanding. Individual children would be better off.

See "K-12: Character Assassins." Many good comments. They reveal, for one thing, that cheating has become an epidemic.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/10/k12_character_assas...

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"Saving K-12 -- What happened to our public schools? How do we fix them?" can be preordered on Amazon, etc. Pub date is November 17.

https://www.amazon.com/SAVING-K-12-Happened-Public-Schools/dp/16811...