You said it about the teachers. We sure do have some pretty incompetent teachers even in the "high test" scoring schools. They may have been teaching for 25 years, they may know their subjects, but what the h-ll are they doing pretending to love teaching kids when they have no patience for normal 6,7 and 8 year old behavior (the kind that doesn't hurt the other kids) and cannot protect other kids from bullies? Sad.