3/23/13

On public schools

In the first place, the infiltration by soda corporations into public schools should have sent a clear message that the government is not holding class to enrich our children's lives, but to exploit them. And again with the national shift to charter schools, of contracting our children's education to the low bidders, a practice that was implemented with little regulation and has led to a situation where a large minority of charter schools have failed to meet educational standards. Education is perhaps the most crucial process in a culture's evolution. If the government sees it as a program that can be operated on ever shrinking funds and teach gross misinturpritations in history then we should lift the burden from our government and the associated tax requirement to the citizens, and educate our children in the community. An important question is should education ply the role of indoctrination? Or should it life the pupil to a heightend perspective to better choose their path free of the present pitfalls, such a indentured servitude/college debt. There is promise in many alternative schools, where the indoctrination is absent from curricula. They cry for more funding is made in the next breath after we order our beer at the restaurant, or request a color for our new cars, or blindly drive circles for fourty years consuming distraction and instant gratification. In the grandest view, there is indeed a scarcity which means the irresponsible consumer lifestyle we all at one point or another acknowledge, has in fact reached the threshold.

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