Oratory Contest under American Legion

I went to a state oratory contest and also to a district contest( there is a lack of candidates in the district.) The winners get a some money to go to college. We had 5 young people at the state contest and 3 out of 5 young people were outstanding. The other two were outstanding in the sense that it takes courage prepare for the contest. It is very difficult to get schools to help get the young people to participate. ( Remember our grade schools are such low level that they do not prepare our young people for high school. The reason is our grade school teachers are mind analsist's and everything is tuaght in very small steps because of the lack of knowledge on the part of the teachers as on a grade school principal told me once that they do not have to know anything to (teach?) lead our young people to learn. ) (The young people that had participated, had gone through some legion programs where it looks like they had learned leadership experience- from Cadet law to boys and girl state. These programs require the young people to work on their own and that is not what the average public school teaches our young people. I guess I am writing my frustration as look what this country is missing in future leadership and or scientist's etc. Maybe there is a need for a different kind of counselors in our high schools to help promote our young people in the right direction. I think we now hire Psycologist and socialists and these people are not trained on the type of experience that our young people need to enter life. These people are trained on people's emotions, but to help these young people get the skills that are needed in the real world,there is a need for say retired Engineers,scientists, biologists, etc to consul these young people what is needed in training etc.Psychology is not everything.