Some facts and simple truths about the American Education System in the 21st Century

The things I’m writing about today are probably going to make more than a few of my readers angry, but hopefully they will make others thoughtful.

I don’t mean to step on any toes, but I am going to directly challenge a few philosophies. These issues need to be addressed, and addressed now. So, here I go!

I look back in time and see all the great things we as citizens of the United States have accomplished together when the odds were against us. 

From our very beginnings, when our founding fathers took on the challenge of creating a new nation and challenged Great Britain for the right to exist, we’ve fought prejudice and preconceived notions about our rights to be a nation and how to live our lives, but we prevailed and now stand alone as the only super power in the world.

When war was thrust upon us in December 1941, we were wholly unprepared but, as a people, we rallied to the challenge and prevailed.

On September 11th 2001, we were unprepared for the surprise attacks on our country, but as a nation we came together and did what had to be done.

In the early part of the twentieth century the world faced epidemics of polio, chicken pox, measles and tuberculosis.  Our doctors and scientists rose to the challenges and for the most part, we have eliminated those diseases as a major threat to humanity.

Now we face new epidemics.  These epidemics are ignorance and complacency.  In many ways these epidemics are worse than any we’ve faced as a nation.  Thomas Jefferson declared “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be”.

If we can’t find a way to fix our education system, and fix it soon, we will face repercussions that will make disease, war and terrorism seem like minor problems.  

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