reply to post by dolphinfan
What folks went through can be obtained through a history class. What folks went through decades ago has absolutely nothing to do with a 16 year old
today who is illiterate and jammed up in the criminal justice system. What folks went through decades ago has nothing to do with someone who is not
working not getting any exercise. What folks went through decades ago has nothing to do with folks getting fat. To suggest otherwise is absurd.
This a very good point, my friend. While there was a time when slavery was not only practiced by several states in this nation, it was also
indirectly condoned by the remaining states due to its tolerance of what was very clearly and undeniably an abrogation and derogation of peoples
rights. You would think that the 13th Amendment was all that was necessary to put an end to "white privilege", but astonishingly just a few years
later Congress, for whatever reasons, felt compelled to pass the 14th Amendment, and in doing so set up the series of events that have led today.
Today, it really doesn't matter what color your skin is, or what religion you worship, or what creed you follow, if you hope to take part in the
American Dream, far too many people, and most assuredly local, state and federal governments, will insist that you need a license to do so. Anyone
who has bothered to study history should know that after the Progressive Era the nasty beast of credentialism reared its ugly head, and in doing so,
began locking up an economic system that should be free to all.
This blind faith in credentialism - and by labeling it blind faith I am being generous - has created a scenario where the entire nation has a bevy of
credentialed teachers, and yet children today are struggling to get through a system that has made many a school board member wealthy, has adopted all
sorts of insane theories and "educational" programs, has embraced standardized testing, but cannot seem to figure out how to actually educate the
children they have been credentialed to do so.
This nasty and deeply odious practice of credentialism goes well beyond teaching, and our medical system is rife with licensed doctors, but
iatrogenocide, while being the third leading cause of death among
Americans, is one of America's best kept secrets. It is largely a best kept secret because credentialed journalists seemingly have no interest in
reporting this as news, or a scandal. This is the real value of credentials, and that value lies in empowering and expanding bureaucratic agencies
withing government and has absolutely nothing at all to do with protecting people from harm.
You bring up a most salient point of illiterate 16 year old's jammed up in the criminal justice system, and while it has been reported that The
United States now imprisons more people per capita than any other industrialized nation, including China today, and the Soviet Union at the height of
their tyranny, this really doesn't seem to bother too many people. Hell, it doesn't even seem to bother many parents and siblings that the state
has imprisoned one of their family members for some "victimless" crime, this is how bad it has become today. Families accept the nanny state to the
point that many parents are angry with their 16 year old child for being imprisoned over drug use instead of angry with the state, or federal
government who has decided this innocuous behavior is criminal. It is not really a big leap that mothers would stand and watch a government agent
grope their child and act as if they are helpless to stop it.
The primary reason that would never be acceptable, even if we did have the money is that impoverishment is a massive business in this country and the
political racists have too much invested in it.
Here again you hit the nail on the head! The so called "War on Poverty" is in actuality a war on the American people. Poverty is good business for
a few, and as far as government is concerned that is good and just. No good and just government would ever agree with that, but this is not what we
have today. What we have today is an ever expanding government from the bottom up, and the top down. It is all about an aggregation of power, and
public school systems are very much a part of that aggregation. "Social engineering" programs are laughable attempts at "governmental social
control".
I've been to a number of these propaganda programs that have been mandated in the corporate world. They are complete BS. At the end of the day, they
school you to lower the bar and that is the last thing these kids need.
Tragically, you are once again right on the money. This effort at lowering the bar is disguised as benign social programs but it is really just an
insidious indoctrination program designed to convince people that they are less than what they really are.
The only good thing about this class is that hopefully it will take these teachers away from the students for a couple of days.
Again you are right, and how sad is that?
Great post my friend. Truly great post.