I’m very concerned about this issue is well. Here some of my ideas on what “Reform” should look like:1) Since 40% of US highschool seniors are functionally illiterate and it takes only a few weeks to teach a child how to read, we should wake up and recognize the criminal nature and criminal INTENT behind what has been done to us and what is being done to our children in the public school system and act accordingly.
I suggest the following:
a) An emergency mass withdrawal of our children from the public school system.
b) Emergency federal funds immediately dispersed to all families with children for the purposes of purchasing a home phonics program and/or a teacher assisted phonics course. Federal government to reimburse itself from education budget.
c) A televised class action lawsuit against the federal government and specific government officials particularly the heads of the NEA, Department of Education, and the Department of Labor. Among the charges will be criminal negligence with the option to prove criminal intent.
d) An investigation of the private sector’s role in our educational demise and a dismantling and/or public confiscation of all facilities owned by guilty parties.
2) Since we already spend at least twice as much per student than any other country in the world and we still rank almost dead last in math and science (and not so hot in other areas either), we need to collectively admit that throwing more money at public education is (and has been) an act of pure desperation and futility devoid of anything even remotely resembling reason or critical analysis.
a) As long the public education system remains intact, we need to put an indefinite moratorium on increased education spending in ANY form.
b) We need legislation that will call for immediate dismissal of any public official that attempts to draft or promote legislation that would increase spending on education based on the assumption that such an individual is dangerous moron unworthy of holding a public office.
c) Until the class action suit is resolved, cut federal public education spending down to a fraction of where its currently at, turn control of public school facilities over to the states or the local communities in which they reside, and cut federal taxes accordingly.
3) We need to recognize that our public education system was modeled directly after Prussia’s which was openly understood to be a system for dumbing down the masses to insure that there would be enough docile grunts to work the mines and support Big Industry and the War Machine.
As long as children are attending public education facilities, the TRUE history and intent of our public education system should be a mandatory lesson taught and discussed at the beginning of each semester to both the children and the parents starting in the 1st grade and continuing up through the senior year in highschool. This will facilitate parents being able to intelligently decide whether or not they want their child to be an industrious robot ward of the state or a free thinking human being with basic civil rights and the ability to read and write his own name.
4) We need to recognize the fact that a child can now get his head blown off while pretending to read in the school library, twiddling his thumbs at his desk, or eating his prison slop in the cafetteria.
Parents that send their children to schools where mass murders have recently occurred should be charged with child endangerment and enrolled in mandatory courses on child safety and logic.
