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I feel as though I may be beating the proverbial dead horse at the moment, so I will move on. Our educational system is in need of a massive overhaul that cannot be mandated by the government, any government, from local to federal. The changes in this field, as in most as ingrained and archaic as education, must be revolutionary. I mean we must begin this as a grassroots effort.

School boards and various other groups have held the standard for much too long. Places such as Cleveland, Ohio have taken it even further away from where it should be by forcing the State of Ohio to take over the schools. The city schools were awful to begin with so this was even more of a slap in the face for parents faced with the prospect of HAVING to send their children to such places. The system, though showing minor gains in some places, is still a steaming heap of fetid trash.


Let us look at some of things that are important in our society, shall we? Not only has the emphasis on material possessions overshadowed the basic need for human compassion towards one another and ourselves, but the import on trivial information has exceeded the value of true knowledge. Is this what we really want to instill in those who are our future? I think not.

This, I know, is not the way it is for every child, nor even for most, BUT it is the thing we see most often in the media. For God’s sake, one of our most popular shows right now is “Do You Know More Than a Fifth Grader?” Well, do we? Honestly, most of us don’t. You know why?
We are wasting our time learning inane garbage with an archaic delivery system. Yes, a fifth grader knows “more” than a rocket scientist because she is forced to memorize ridiculous trivial drivel. But does the fifth grader run the world or might it be more up to the rocket scientist? Hummmmm, I wonder.