Declining education
Dear ER:
Is this a Dickens’s character asking for more porridge please? The conscious optics are excellent without any concern for morality abstractly contrived, economically assured destruction, social justice using the phenomenal tools of Sol Alinsky, and Edward Bernay’s public relations psychology of crowd and herd instinct framed by “the scientific engineering of consent.”
California is broke, the nation is broke with unsustainable debts, and little parity between the makers and takers of entitlements, our era’s form of slavery. Public educational servants have wages that are north of 40% higher than the private sector, with retirements five to 10 times that of those providing those perks. One in four drop out of high school. Two in three drop out of college. The teacher’s product is defective?
Why do the good teachers do nothing? Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s admonition is, “Not to speak, is to speak.” “Not to act is to act.” We live in a culture where it is ever increasingly impossible for leaders to vote for “justice” if it negatively impacts their income.
This socially abhorrent, but risk-managed, aberration is clearly framed by the exploding public school system, child sexual-abuse scandal, the “learning” institutions having learned nothing, feverishly pushing the issue under the radar to protect who? This from the priest pedophilia scandal now decades old and infinitely documented. Any claim to ignorance only substantiates the “wrongness” of any wisdom in this chosen avocation.
The managed decline of education is documented, not an “urban legend.” Permission should not be needed to teach and protect our children. It was Steve Jobs who implied to President Obama that “jobs” were not coming back to America. Why do you suppose that is?
Donald A. Sellek
Manhattan Beach
