The Department of Non Education

You are scrolling through a feed, and see a question on the top of the post. We queried one hundred college students. Out of curiosity, you want to know what they asked our young educated kids. It’s a simple question really. What year what the Declaration of Independence?

We have been taught that in every single history class since first grade. And yet a glassy look and film covers the young ladies eyes. Her companion, a young man, probably her age or similar, looks at her and waits for her answer.

She hesitates and says she can’t remember. Fair enough, a lot of people are bad with dates and especially years of importance. So the blog journalist, asks her a second question. “Ok. well what day of the year do we all celebrate our independence?” he asks.

Again she stands there a few seconds and then the light in her head goes on. She knows the answer very clearly because she smiles wide.

“Cinco de Mayo!” she yells out. People around her applaud and her friend even smiles.

I can’t imagine the person asking the question isn’t trying to laugh, but he asks a follow up question to that one.

“When do we celebrate the independence of our nation from England?”

“That’s easy”, she states, “in November on Thanksgiving.” “We get together and celebrate the meal we shared with the American Indians when we decided to become free from the queen.”

She is confident. She looks proud of herself, until her friend chimes in, “No Amy, it’s in May.” “You know, Cinco de Mayo?” “That’s May 5th,” he says with a smile for himself. He has bested his friend, and is essentially patting himself on the back.

The journalist, thanks them and goes to ask another student, at this prestigious university.

Over and over, each student he confronts is asked the same questions and each and every one of them gets a look as if they are priming the pumps in their brains at great distress to the cerebral cortex, for an answer. Question after question with inane answers, all of which are incorrect.

The reporter, begins to ask one more follow up question, of all the students, he is interviewing. He begins asking them, if they know who any one of the Kardashian women are married to or dating. Guess what happens then?

The majority of them named the person one or all of the women are seeing or married to, and a quite a few name every person, each woman has been known to date. How is that for education?

Ninety eight percent of the students, male and female, from a wide variety of majors, that are interviewed didn’t know the correct answers of either one or more of the questioned asked.

This interview was held at a renowned university, one that all of you parents, pay upwards of fifty thousand dollars a year, to educate your dolt.

Yes I said it. They are all dolts. My dog knows the answer to those questions, and she licks her butt all day.

How is it possible that in one of the most powerful and wealthy nations of the world today, our children are stupid as a box of rocks. Let me share with you what I see, happening.

First and foremost, it is the responsibility of the student to learn and retain information that is important. Yes our founding is important. It always is. It is the basis of who we are and what makes us the United States. There is absolutely no excuse for their ignorance on that front.

They just don’t care. These kids are all interested on the path of least resistance when planning their futures and careers.

Ladies want to make money fast and furious, so they model the wealthy women they see on the screens. The ones that took their clothes off and made a career out of that, or accidentally, on purpose, leaked a salacious sex porno tape. The act of innocence is fed to the public and the resounding sympathy patronizing of their careers from that point forward, gives them wealth beyond imagination.

Men too, fall victim the lure of social climbing. Anything from gambling, to creating video games, to vlogs doing just about anything is fair game, as long as it is not actual work.

Ask any employer, these days about the climate of the up and coming generations of employees and see what they tell you. It is beyond dismal. It is depressing.

I am told over and over that these young people are lazy, they really do not want to work, and either work when they feel like it, or just don’t call or show up for work at all. Who gets the responsibility of those walking disasters? The parent, that’s who.

What do you believe happens when a child has no, supervision by a parent? You get what we have now. Millions of parents, who work beyond what should be normal, to have that new gaming system for their kid each year, the newest overpriced iPhone and gigantic tv, and the new Lexus in the driveway, they’ll spend the next ten years paying off.

Parents, of you think not being home with your kids is no big deal, you are dead wrong. You are responsible for their character building, not some television soft porn star or reality tv person. You have nothing more important in your life than that. And yet parents are failing to raise society worthy humans. But go ahead and work your fifty hours a week.

The third and often glossed over culprit in this equation, is the educational system. They fail with an enormous F (insert 32 font here).

Children are advancing and graduating, unable to read, unable to calculate simple algebra, heck even simple addition. None can balance a checkbook. A hug majority don’t know how to address an envelope, or write cursive. Oh, but their thumbs can type 100 words a minute. And I use the word, ‘words’ very lightly. They cannot write a coherent sentence if it is handed to them.

This is the education they are getting, at home and at school. And no one seems to give a damn.

The student does not care. They want to have fun. They want instant, they want it all handed to them by anything but hard work. The parent cannot be bothered, to give up the cocktail parties or coffee dates with friend to educate the child they gave birth to. And the teachers could not care less at this point. They want to go in and get out as soon as possible everyday, have their three month vacation and every holiday off, and work until they can retire with full benefits and or pension, or reach the coveted tenure. They are bidding their time.

It is not anyone’s fault over another, though there is plenty of blame to go around on all fronts. The student blames the parent, the parent blames the teacher, and the teachers blame the parents. Round and round goes the blame carousel.

Other nations are advancing over our in all the S.T. E.M courses, while our students ace the social media university of idiots, and no one seems to be paying attention or giving a hoot.

Parents are checking out of the hotel intellectually and emotionally. They do not take responsibility for the task of parenting. It’s a career, people! The most important one in the world. While you nature fanatics, or our food fanatics are all lamenting on the world we are leaving future generations, you are leaving the future world to uneducated and immature children who have no character or intellect. That is a more important, issue than whether a cow farts and releases methane. Get a grip.

If we don’t raise smart and conscientious children, then we fail as parents. FAIL!

Teaching used to be a respected profession. Not any more. All we are seeing them produce, is millions of dumb socialites who could not tell you the composition of water, or the planets of the solar system. They know nothing, care about less than nothing, and will have futures of being nothing.

Teachers, have given up. They see that parents, are shirking their responsibility and using the education system as baby sitting services with benefits, and they don’t care anymore. The higher ranks among them, pass these kids to get them out of their hair, and the cycle feeds on itself.

Then we see the complaint of teachers wanting more money and more this and that. Why not, right. Everyone else gets something for producing nothing, why not them too? Why get paid higher for results, when you can be the louder squealing wheel and get it for no merit? They scream every time someone calls for a merit and results based rate of pay and promotion. The parents, afraid that they might have to actually parent their kids give them the increases, so they don’t have to deal with the teachers, no staying, and so they don’t have to give anything up themselves to do something that involves sacrificing their wants, for the needs of this generation of kids. It never ends and I don’t see an end to this preposterous cycle.

Is that the nation we want to continue creating? Is that the future we want for the children, the world, the earth? I sure as hell hope not.

Does anyone reading this want to be treated by a doctor doesn’t know their job, but knows that sports team quarterback was arrested for injecting steroids? I sure don’t want that. Maybe you do.

Something has to change. Parents need to prioritize what is important. Kids need to have goals and expectations. Limited television and internet time would be helpful as well. Teachers need to give a crap, and that start by parents giving a crap. Why should a teacher care about your kid’s education if you don’t? If you don’t take time to know what your kids knows and is learning, and help them succeed, why would a stranger have the desire to educate a product of you, that you don’t care to help succeed? They would not. It’s not their child, remember. They have a job to do. That job is a three party commitment, not a platitude. It’s a community effort all around, and that community has to care.

Go check on your kids and see what’s up in school today. She interest in them and what they are learning, daily, and they will begin to actually be interested in learning. All they want to do is impress their parents. Give them that much.

Teachers, hang in there. The job is a noble one. Do your best to do it well. Integrity is worth its weight in pure gold. Have it in the way you educate. Those kids count on you, believe it or not.

Kids, study and study hard. Work and work hard. There is no greater satisfaction, than doing something beyond expectations and getting somewhere in life that commands respect and appreciation. The money comes. But not at the expense of hard work, tenacity and education.