American Education: A failed State

We can begin with security as a national failure. The USA just passed a $700 billion defense budget but just as it cannot secure its borders, it cannot secure its children at school. We question the state of mind of politicians Left and Right, even more so, we question the voters who put them in office.

Why is not border security the top priority in the defense budget. Why is not security the priority of our schools? How can students study while one of their fellow students is advocating mass murder on the social media. Then too, the schools have become drug dens of students and teachers, booth need medication from the stress of the daily round. What curriculum is relevant to such traumatic times.

The atmosphere is full of toxicity, fake news, junk food; textbooks full of false narrative white supremacy history. Conservative school boards fight to maintain the status quo, discarding any Ethnic Studies that debunks the white supremacist world of make believe. Thanksgiving was a joyous affair. The Aboriginals discovered Columbus. What is the Fourth of July to kidnapped Africans?  New Year's, the most dreaded day in the life of kidnapped Africans, the annual slave auction, when mothers and fathers were sold down the river or their children, never to be seen again. 

To have a curriculum that is a full blown denial of history and reality, might easily lead to a mental paralysis or psychosis, upending the mental equilibrium of students, teachers and parents with the resultant drug abuse and violence, not to mention boredom.
--MARVIN X
12/18/19