I’ve yet to understand why young people today do not understand why they may need to learn a certain subject in school. When I was a kid, it wasn’t always clearly explained, that really depended on the teacher, but when a teacher did take the few minutes to tell those anxious faces why it is important for them to understand a subject like algebra and how they, without knowing, probably use it in their lives everyday. History? The analogy of learning from the past so that we don’t repeat it has always been a decent beginning.

English composition? How about that the person learns to write intelligibly to the chosen audience. It’s really not about the number of words, but the quality of the same, and the sentences they construct. I can go on into pretty much every general area subject that children are exposed to today and give examples of how it is beneficial to learn and understand. Why parents, at least many that I know, refuse to spend those few minutes explaining the importance of the travail of ;earning asnd how learning in school is only the beginning.

I know teachers that complain about the absence of preparedness of their classes, all the time. I ask if they encourage them to go beyond the class, not threaten with doom and gloom outlooks. Some do, some don’t. Many, unfortunately, have lost their ability to care even though they entered the profession ideally that they were going to shape the next generation. What they’ve discovered is that the education system is not set up for education, just housing in some cases, indoctrinating in others.

It’s funny that it took a ‘pandemic’ and schools be shutdown for parents to discover, to their disbelief, what their children were not be taught what they were told. In far, in some districts around the country, the actual curricula looked nothing like what parents were being told.

Of course, parents have some blame here as well. There are a lot of parents the willingly give up their kids daily to a system that they set unwilling to have any input in at all. They couldn’t be bothered. Now, they can and in fact are. This is one of the largest voting blocs created, accidentally, due to poor decision making during a viral outbreak. Politicians all of the country are scrambling to become a part of an education “Me Too” announcing to those that will still listen to any of them that they are going to straighten this out. No, dear politico, it’s the parents, those voters you so long ignored, that will fix the education system first by voting you out, then taking control of education at the local level.

I hope education remains a pressure point in the upcoming 2024 election. At every level, from local to federal, candidates should be pinned down on what they are proposing to change the way the education system works by placing the focus on the consumer, and not the bureaucracy.