Let us not screw our kids over

It is kind of embarrassing to even bring this subject up. After all in the USA America most people still expect their kids to have an even better quality of life than their parents had. And their parent’s quality of life is pretty good, and has been, I think for the last decades.

Yet it seems many of our elected representatives, and our elected executives, seem to be on this course as a way to fund things and get elected in their future. In other words, borrowing from the future to make things nice today seems to be an accepted routine that we support with our votes.

I seem to be educated to the historical idea that taxation without representation caused a revolution. Now a revolution is not some academic idea, it is a human endeavor.

Now education is one key to civilization, and a uniting behavior, I think. And mostly education, as it applied to me, is just the idea that most humans should be educated to the level of all that has gone before. Mostly it is so new humans don’t have to figure out things discovered thousands of years ago, and in the interim period, for example. And along the way, educating young humans to learn the basic skills to perform a service to their employer is a big deal, too. Making change at a fast food market is an example.

And education is a two-way street. Some want to be educated by whatever their local system is, and some don’t. What’s new? We do have drop outs, and always will.

What is disturbing is three things:

1) Is educating our children for their benefit, and probably our human future benefit, mostly a present day adult jobs program? This is an embarrassing question to even ask.
2) Can educating our children be about teaching them things to shortcut having to figure out thousands of years of fellow human learning? In other words, do they have to “do it again”? In my “advanced” classes, that is pretty much what we did. I considered it a waste of time (at age 16 by the way).
3) In the most classical human mode, have we humans in the USA America have dumbed down our own kids (without trying to I think) in order to now figure out we have a problem, and will try to solve it in the future.

What’s wrong with what worked in the past? Why did we change it?

And in the case of private school education these days, the most important, and recognized advantage is that the parents care, and participate. Plus they are paying on top of local property taxes, for example. While the kids are naturally the same as goes smartness, they are better educated in general, and offer a better prospect for marriage and work. In other words, they are better educated. An indirect idea, is that these kids have a father and mother at their home. Boys and girls are different, after all.

In the case of so many world humans coming to the USA to get educated, that is obviously a really good compliment. Two thoughts come to mind. One is that things must be worse back home than is reported in the USA. Second is that there is still value in a USA education that sells.

The obvious good idea is to look forward, and elect humans who will think this way at the school board, city, county, state, and even federal levels. Now every location will do it their own way, what’s new, but by golly it will be their way and about their kids.

At least that seems to be the way the new world USA America is evolving. And public education still seems to be the main idea for our future.

Last, just what is the intention of so many local school boards, and even higher levels of political and budget oversight, and even funding? Is the intention to educate their kids, or some other decision? If the deciders want to range out, consider what the State of Maine has done for almost a century. There I think they used vouchers because they thought it was smart. In the end, it was about the kids.

Now you decide where you live.