BUT, I have to tell ya here that even with all that beautiful verbiage that you just typed there, the bottom line here is STILL primarily your Numero-Tres there, amigo. Uh huh, that's correct-a-mundo, alright.
Once again, until the vast majority of PARENTS in this country TEACH their kids the value of a well-rounded education, AND until the vast majority of PARENTS in this country TEACH respect for knowledge and those who possess it and wish to impart some of it upon others(namely TEACHERS), AND until the vast majority of PARENTS in this country TEACH their offspring that it IS "cool" to be "smart", and in fact it's "cooler" to be "smart" than it is to idolize some "tough guy" or some "gangster" or some "actor" or some "Jock" or some etc, etc, etc...THEN we MIGHT be able to turn this educational ship around and toward some semblance of what an educational system SHOULD be!!!
(...and I'll tell ya ONE THING here...the FIRST Politico who has the GUTS to say to the parents of this country what I just typed there will get MY vote!!!...but, fat chance of THAT ever happening, because they're ALL pretty much gutless nowdays, and on BOTH sides of the proverbial aisle, because THEY'RE just "smart" enough to know that people don't what to hear what people don't want to hear!)
Right on, 85 percent of the problem is the parents. Ah ha this gives me an idea. If you have a child in school you also get tested on a quarterly basis. What is your child's GPA, what classes are they taking. How many days the kid missed everything about the kid, and their performance. If they fall below a certain average on the test then they pay a graduated fine.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
