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While the school systems - both public and private - do have a tendency to wrongly label children based on certain criteria, that isn't the systems only way of failing our children.

For instance, they teach our children that we are all equal and to be treated as such. While that is a nice concept, that simply isn't the way that the real world operates. Yes, we all got here pretty much the same way, but past that, we are all unique, and there is nothing equal or fair about it.

But our children, after 12 or 13 years of public or private school education, come away believing that everything is supposed to be fair and equal. That puts them at a great disadvantage out in the real world, simply because they are expecting things to be much different than they actually are.

Unfortunately, our children spend the next 12 or 13 years getting knocked on their butts on a regular basis until they realize that the concept of equal and fair simply doesn't exist in our adult world.

It gets much worse than that. You see, our schools no longer teach our children anything, in the true sense of the word. Our children are taught how to pass a test - a specific test. They are only taught the things that are required to pass that test. If a child can't learn the things that they need to know to pass that test, they are labeled as learning disabled. If they excel on that test, they are gifted.

Children are now being taught that conflicts are not tolerable or acceptable. Again, that is a nice concept, but unfortunately, that isn't the way it is in the real world. In the adult world, we face conflicts every single day - whether it is an argument with a spouse or a fight to right a political wrong.

Is it any wonder that an entire generation needs counseling and therapy? They weren't taught to face or deal with conflicts in school like the older generation was! They can't handle it, because they haven't been faced with it.

Yes, we have become a nation that doesn't want violence. Back when our parents were kids, if two boys had a conflict they met on the playground after school and duked it out. If they were caught fighting, parents were called, and they may have served some detention, or even gotten 'pops' in the principals office. But they learned from the experience. They learned that fighting is wrong, but sometimes it is just necessary to settle a conflict.

Today, our school's have 'no tolerance' policies. If kids fight, their parents are called, but so are the police. One or both of the children

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