1st grade educastion

I looked in this morning's paper and they were talking about education and of course so call test scores and guess what I saw . A picture of a first grader using a calculator to Learn to count on her fingers. I have written before about our so call education and lack of decent educated or should I say ignorant grade school teachers. If our so call grade school teachers can not find away to get children to learn then these so call teachers need to quit their jobs and let us just use high school graduates to lead these children in real learning. I watched when Hillary Clinton was in Iowa I believe and she had so call Teachers in her audience and they were asking for more money plus some talking about taking special care of children's needs and I sent her an article aboujt what I thought was wrong and of course I talked about our unedicated teachers. I never got any answer but if these are going to run for then they ought look into where thne troubles but I guess she would not win if the truth would be publised and actually discussed it out in the open. Oh well My generation was known as the greatest generation ww2 types but they sure did not have an education like there is today.