Teachers or Students Don't Fail, It's The System Idiot

Johnny can't read and Suzie can't do her math. Most American students couldn't locate Panama on a globe. They can find a store of that name in their city or locality. Grades are down and schools are environmentally greener. The president wants our children to spend more time in school. Hint, maybe other nations give their children longer hours and fewer resources.

If you ask who is at fault? You will be told the teachers unless you ask a teacher. Ask a teacher? Students and school administrators are at fault. Parents blame the school not their student. The school administrators blame parents because parents don't go along with everything the school proposes. Like less education for more tax dollars. Students feel the apathy and know the propaganda of a political correct society. Perhaps even gender warfare between the genders.

The federal government no child left behind law take years before it bites the hands of the culprits failing education. The state and county know well before parents hear it what schools are failing. So the students have the wonderful opportunity of staying in a school that's not teaching them and falling further behind.

The NEA doesn't believe all children can be expected to pass the education standards in a school. This is the bane, they believe, in the no child left behind law. What happens when a school fails the no child left behind act. The school continues teaching. I mean do you real think the public schools are going to give vouchers for attending private schools? Do you really think private or public schools are going to accept the little darlings from a closed school? The public school system truly doesn't know what to do to make a failed school work again. They definitely want the state and federal dollars that goes with every child though. Charter schools and home teaching are obscene thoughts opposed by the NEA.

So what happened? You had minor glitches with the parents, teachers, students and administrators. Massive failure with the educational system and its structure. In the beginning all that was expected was that the children would be taught to read and write before they reached their teens. The task is now to teach them to read and write before they reach 18+ years. There used to be jobs for dropouts in society, but not anymore.

The struggle in past years was with getting the schools to accept a diverse strata of children. The melting pot theory was that children would become Americans. Not African or Italian Americans or hyphenated citizens in this politically charged society. Schools were pushed from reading and writing to social programs and indoctrination. Schools became the laboratory for liberal thought and fads. The educational bureaucracy failed to learn what the purpose of education was and their role in it.

Does society want business men, scientists, soldiers, poets and thinkers trained by the Educational system? A high school diploma appears to be the terminal degree for those of color, not of the elite, rich, or powerful. If you are of the correct color, rich, elite, and from power then the college degree is your terminal degree.

It's like the emperor has no clothes that aren't made of transparent cellophane. The secret is exposed!

• They don't know what an education is.
• They don't know how to teach towards and give an education.
• They don't know how to control their students.

So we see with eyes aghast, the bumbling hands and stutter steps of false fads being implemented. Folks, the system need fixing badly. The problem is we have to let go of those:

• Who won't fix it.
• Can't fix it.
• Love it the way it is.

I say concentrate at the state level with state funds. The states know what they can afford. If the federal people want input or programs implemented then send the money and people to do so! We don't need a czar of education that we didn't elect or ran for the job.

Our government ran a war on poverty. A war for security of the homeland. A war against alcohol. The civil rights act investigations. A war against drugs. We lost those wars! WE HAVE LOST OUR ABILITY NOT TO BE ENGAGED IN WARS OR EXIST ON A PEACETIME ECONOMY.

We should try three ideas and find out that only one works. It hurts but let's get rid of the two bad ideas and try three new ones. A school operating off of what work may become a beautiful thing. No, Hillary, it doesn't take a community to raise a child just parents. People of reason not image mongers.