It's Not The System, It's Us

As someone who came through a pretty crappy system myself, I know what bad schools are like. Only half of my entering class actually graduated with me four years later. Many of the girls (and guys for that matter since it takes two) had kids during high school; one girl actually had four. There were people who by 10th and 11th grade could barely read a paragraph out loud in class without struggling. Rather than preparing kids for college, they were struggling just to get kids across the graduation stage.

The real problem of why situations like this exist is multi-faceted, but usually leads back to one thing. Rich people don't care if those schools get proper funding or not because they can afford to send their kids to private school anyway. Why this matters is because it's the very rich people who control our government; regardless of being Democrat or Republican. We've allowed these people, via politicians, to tell us all kinds of crap about how to fix school systems they could care less about anyway; which is why education is often one of the first things they want to decrease funding towards. But the bigger problem is that as a result of these crappy school systems, most people have become too dumbed down to even realize how much they're being slighted. I mean, how dumbed down do you have to be to complain about raising taxes on the wealthy who can afford it, but be for cutting things like unemployment, WIC, Social Security and Head Start programs for the people who can't even make ends meet (and yes, there are some folks who abuse the system)?

So even though investing more into education (not just money, but more oversight to make sure funds are used properly) would ultimately strengthen our economy and put the US back on track to having the best job market in the world, the few at the top also understanding that it's ignorance that allows them to continue to control the country like they have for several decades now.