Thank goodness this young generation is not sitting still for the "stuck in the mud mentality" of those script followers who can't think beyond their status and their titles.
I guess in some ways people have forgotten what a "Student is".. America use to be about "Learning, and kids were free to ask questions of "who", "what", "when" "where", "why" and "how come" and "what if".
Now if a student pose such inquiry, they are labeled as a "trouble makers", because the system has become so hung up on "lesson plan time line", until they don't allow the "teachers to teach, nor for the students to learn"... Yet, we say we are a "thinking society' and a nation of free speech.
We rely on test scores, based on how well one engages "rote memorization", not how well they learn facts, explores variables, and investigate details, and inquire as to what if. We try to train them "as script followers", so when they become workers, they " are like a programmed robot".
We are so hung up on STEM, until we have forgot these are human beings, and as human beings, they should have a well rounded education, which includes cultural and social element programming within the education system and certainly Civics leanings. But we have POLITICIANS, playing funding games, by some "invalid grading system". Heck, even China came to understand that "rote memorization's for the sake of test taking and score rating did not improve individual performance, and it certainly did not promote innovation or innovative thinking. Japan kicks our but, because they too figured out, they have to invest in the "expanding mind concept and invest to develop and provide workshop within their programming".
We have become a nation of "drop outs" because we became a system that "vilifies students for inquiry", and "label them for exploratory thought", and we will call them "distributors in and when they ask "WHY" and we are too status minded and ego elated to take the time to give them information as to "HOW". We insult them in open forum, when they ask such questions and pose such inquiry. Our systems has become antagonistic to the "young mind". We want to lecture them, instead of engage them in "educational learning and support the premise of teaching".
Sadly, the Teachers who try to be such teachers, are quickly put up for "reprimand", because some executives in the system want to get a "school rating based on "test scores" that are derived not from actually learning, but who can have the best group of "rote memorization minions".
American have always been a society of "communicators", we were never designed to be a society, without openness in speech to inquire and question point and premise.
We've developed a system of society that does noting but promote "short attention span", and "rote memorization"... Its as exampled even in our News Media... who is a "tid bit slinger's", who is so busy selling commercial advertisement, until they have to try and get 5 tid bits with a suspense circle heading to commercial, only to be followed by a "tid bid" that has no details, and no expansion of subject matter of point nor elaboration upon factors of a fact.
Kids are learning they must get their own information and they engage it among each other, school has been made into a "get past go" game... rather than one that actually engages in Teaching and Education Young People.
Then young people have to watch a mass of Political Mad people, who are more interested in a Campaign Contribution, than doing the job they were voted in to do, which is to "represent the voice of the people"... They represent only the dictates of the Contributor to their Campaign Piggy Bank.
It should be "illegal" for any elected Politician to take one penny from anyone, until the actual time comes to put their hat in the ring and see if they are considered as a candidate. Not spend their whole time in office, posturing and collecting money to try and "buy the seat for another term".
I think the young people will come to terms that "Campaign Financing will be Federally Funded, and State Funded, and Any Politician, will have to meet a Performance Review before they can put their hat in the ring to be considered for candidacy in another term. The madness of "getting elected" based on Name Recognition Game needs to be made Dead"....
When these kids talk to their parents, and their parents vote out the School Board Members, only then will they get School Board Members who actually respect the Students.. The same for the Politician who "withhold and cut money for education" should be "voted OUT".
The young people of the future, will likely institute a means to "have Recall" for any Political Position when the person is not representing the voice of the people.
It's great they found their own way to "stand for what they believe".
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