The importance of a high school level education is so important to America’s future

That we do not hear this in the 2008 election federal debates says much about we Americans, those who control the debate questions, and even if they think we citizens do not have choices about our kid’s futures.

And an old fashioned curriculum that best prepares our young people for their future, and their kids future is what we voters and parental school enrollers must demand, expect, vote for, and “fire for” is “just the ticket”. Most of this idea is local, as in voting or even going private. And too many think we have in the last few decades frittered away our most parental and societal obligation to educate our young people to be good citizens for their benefit. And thank goodness, many have not “frittered away” their obligations to their kids.

There are also many who have taken this window of opportunity to educate their kids the old fashioned way, and so have benefited them to lead and succeed in our and their futures. Nobody can fault parents for doing the best for their kids. What has to happen sooner rather than later, is having American leaders, local and state mostly, get elected and introduce education standards that benefit the rest of society and our kids. Expect resistance, but the last many heard, the citizens are still in charge, vice the unions and jobs program’s bureaucrats and idealists who presently dominate so many schools in so many parts of our country. These people are Americans too, but their chances and opportunities have come and gone. They have failed ideas that hurt our children today.

Some practical examples come up for a society and culture such as America to survive, let alone succeed. Children must be taught geography and other cultures, American history and our culture’s values, arithmetic as in make change and understand interest rates, American English as in being able to read manuals and books, and home economics as in cooking, basic home repair, and home budgets. Just studying about driving, and responding to all the signs and restrictions is important for our safety and the common good. Nobody is born with this knowledge, nor is most of it learned at home or by osmosis, so it must be taught. If not taught, it must be acquired over and over again for each generation, which smacks of returning to our most primitive tribal instincts. Except we Americans are not members of tribes. We are Americans who take oaths to ideas and not people.

Since there are only so many hours and days in any curriculum, priorities must come into play. We cannot fit most of our parental and even governmental socialistic goals into what we hope to get from sending our kids to school, public or even private. When push comes to shove, the basics must always win out in our future, and our kid’s future. Now this idea may come across as radical these days, because it is radical these days. Not too long ago, it was just common sense. When we don’t have enough time in the day, or money in budget, then we prioritize. Let us apply this idea to our children’s educations up to the 12th grade level in order to provide them the basics to be an American citizen with opportunity for success. To do anything less can be called a form of child abuse. After a fair 12th grade education by local standards, they, and their parents, are on their own. And thank goodness.