Progressive Politicians from the turn of the Nineteenth Century until today believe that the public school is the best mechanism of socializing and preparing the youth of today for the workplace and home life tomorrow.
Yet when teachers deal with students today, it is alarming how uninterested many young people are in their lives, in their communities, and in the world at large.
Content to distract themselves with Facebook and video games, perversely interested with celebrity web-site gossip, they seem to have lost all natural affection for each other, for family, and for humanity in general.
Kids are not ready for the real world when they leave the twelfth grade. Pressured by cliques, bullied by unfeeling thugs who are not disciplined by equality-obsessed politically correct administrators, kids have learned to be scared and closed off to the world, socially autistic because of technology. With encyclopedic knowledge at their finger tips, most students would rather peruse obese people falling down stairs or classmates fighting each other on camera. Why such a low level of engagement with their peers, with themselves?
And the common denominator for most students? Boredom, sheer abject, distancing dullness. Why learn this or that? Why are forced to press through the empty rhetoric of long-dead European White Males?
It is tragic how current curricula so heavily emphasize identity politics, that students refuse to engage the insights and thinking of men and women who are "white", members of some mythical power structure which is keeping "the black man in his place" or "brown people down."