As well, the gap between whites and blacks widened. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson must be celebrating, as their cause is being successfully escalated to one of the greatest growth industries of the twenty-first century. The report included an interesting notation, suggesting that the students with the poorest scores indicated that their professional interests tended toward becoming teachers. Good news America, another generation of the best the government can offer, the civil minimum. Something less than mediocrity.
Public education is a grave mistake.
We have turned the most important job in the determination of America s future over to those who have chosen to manifest their existence in terms of the civil minimum. Since anything governmental is also political, the schools have become the harbinger of the social agenda. Socialism has a two-pronged approach. First, it promises equality. That means, at a student level, spending as much time as possible working on weaknesses, while allowing strengths to fall to the acceptable minimum.