What with the earthquake, the tsunami, Libya, Steve Lerner destroying the banks(or not),worldwide union coordination to collapse the dollar and bring social justice(or not), it was easy to miss the real problem; the one that will prove insurmountable, and doom our children, and theirs, to a third world existence.
Whether the crash was intentional(or not), it has finally done us in. It exposed the insolvency at both national and state levels. In responding to that financial crunch states, cities and communities have made cuts in spending.
Many of them have shortened the school year and the school day.
Goodbye future!
While many well meaning people are working to develop better schools, limit the power of teacher unions, and set higher standards at all levels, they seem to have missed the long range implications of the shorter school day/year.
Nothing they are doing will make up for the diminution of school hours.
Our school day and school year were already short by world standards.Our children cannot learn material that is not presented...and that will certainly happen. Now, it looks like our progeny are going to be working at low levels, if they're lucky, for their foreign contemporaries who will have the education to hold the jobs of the ever more complex future.
I'd love to be told that I'm wrong, that I am the one who is missing something. So, correct me please if you can!
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