No Teacher/Adminstrator Left Behind

One of the many lost "wars" America has fought is the war on stupidity. From the highest reaches of the country - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - to the lowest - almost any public school system - America has not only lost the war but is paying reparations to the entire world for it's misguided folly.

Once, the U.S. was considered and rightfully so, the  preeminent global leader in the education of it's future generations. Somewhere the train derailed when it became known that public eduction could be used as a tool to gain and retain political power. Once this discovery was made, the goal no longer was to educate but to obfuscate and dissimulate what paraded as public education. This publicly accepted affront was accomplished through, among other things: iron clad teacher and administrator collective bargaining (union) deals, slick politician's sales jobs and the assurances by elected officials that all children, regardless of intellectual capability, would happily receive and respond to revised educational techniques.

No longer were reading and writing and arithmetic taught to the tune of a hickory stick - they weren't, for the most part, taught at all.

This "new approach" to eduction was embraced, by in large, by the voting public for many years. As long as the U.S. economic engine continued to chug along and keep America in front of the rapidly increasing economic gains of foreign countries - everything was fine and dandy. It seemed our children were positively responding to the latest educational changes. Just look at the newly accepted test score results. SAT testing, considered racist by many, was no longer a "true" measure of a child's public education. Replaced by new tests, which more accurately determined and showcased the efforts of teachers everywhere.

Recently, it became known that public school teachers and administrators in Georgia, specifically Atlanta, engaged in and admitted to what is being called "educational cheating." The equivalent of child abuse of the highest degree. The extent of these series of crimes is not completely known at this time. What is known, is that the scope of these crimes and the conspiracy that they represent are huge.

Once again this country has been cheated by the very same people we elect to lead. However this time, the theft is the theft of the future for those children affected. They have not been "left behind." They never mattered in the first place.

©Sharky&Sharky