re: Schools and teachers are a Joke

Yea the teacher's part in the process is about half. The other half is the parents/home life and the kid's attitude. Not to mention the restraints the dumb kids in class (yours?) put on the rest of the kids by holding the class back as well as the government bureaucracy of ever-changing required lesson plan formats, redundant paperwork, extra-curricular requirements on the teachers, etc.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.