Supercoven | The Wizard in Black

The public education system in America has been on a steady decline ever since the early 2000s in my opinion. With the institution of the No Child Left Behind mentality it’s no wonder that our contry is constantly ranked LAST or nearly last in the world in nearly every topic. It’s so bad that the only way we’d be able to come out on top is if there was a mandatory course in unnecessary trivia and pop culture.

I remember when I was in school it wasn’t half as bad. We had teachers that for the most part cared and taught us to the best of their abilities. There weren’t half as many MANDATORY standardized tests as there are today. We had respect for our teachers and if we didn’t, well we were not tolerated and were disciplined as needed. At most we had ONE major government test every year or so. Now, fat chance. These children are tested at levels that even the most clinically insane people in asylums aren’t even tested that much. It’s tragic. Testing children just takes time away from TEACHING them, don’t you think? Not to mention we were on a grading scale that actually judged our comprehension of the subject matter. What is up with having a ten point grading scale? That just drops the bar for kids to succeed and raises the bar for the underachievers to pass instead of being held back until they actually COMPREHEND the materials taught. What’s next, twenty point scales just so we can pass our kids through the system until they turn out retarded? No wonder we constantly fail when placed amongst other countries…we’re teaching our kids so they can pass, not so they can actually gain any knowledge.

Something else that really infuriates me when dealing with schools nowadays is this: dual language lessons. This is evident in many states close to the Mexican border, from what I’ve heard and seen. What happens is that when the little illegals come over here, our teachers are forced to go over the EXACT SAME FUCKING LESSON PLAN twice: Once, in English for all of our citizens and once again in Spanish for all the little wetback jumping bean babies whose parents are here without a green card and leeching off of our system. This is America…learn fucking English. Many legal immigrants have came here and succeeded and they learned English to do so, you fucking border jumpers aren’t exempt. This takes away from what our own children get to learn because the teacher has to waste time going over the same material in two different languages. How is this beneficial? How is this making our youth prepared to grow up and be intelligent members of society? It isn’t…it is devolving our kids into piles of mush easily manipulated by the governmental powers that be.

My mother is a 30+ year veteran of the public school system and is one of the only teachers I know of in the area that still teaches the way she always taught. I had my mother for first grade and her methods were stellar. She gets involved, does active things that engage her children. However, with all the batteries of tests she must administer for Governor Bush’s oh so successful No Child Left Behind act she can’t enjoy the job she once loved. America’s teachers all feel the exhausting effects of this law and our good educators are going to forever be dampered by the system if it doesn’t change quickly.

Furthermore, I am sick of seeing our society slip further down the tubes. Our kids can’t even point out their own country on a map, and thusly in a few years when they’re adults they will also lack this information and turn into a repeat of Miss Teen South Carolina. It’s time we take control of the public schools in America away from the government and take education to the private sector. We can not educate people when the system we have to do so can’t even produce results that can stand up to countries in even the most impoverished nations. Scrap No Child Left Behind because it’s leaving behind too many of our brightest children and turning the deficient ones into the “let’s play catch-up” cases who need to be put into specialized classes anyway. Spare their fragile little feelings, shit telling them they need to buck up and get out of their specialized classes may put a little bit of drive into them.

Fuck this entire system. Someone please bless America, because we sure as hell aren’t.

-SC