DO POOR KIDS IN U.S. DESERVE A GOOD EDUCATION?

DO POOR KIDS IN U.S. DESERVE A GOOD EDUCATION?

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Golly gee, let’s see, I’m not really sure, and is this a loaded question…..and what about the rich kids what do they deserve? A thorny question for sure, not complicated, just thorny, why you might ask is the question thorny, easy, the way kids are educated, and the education that they have access to is one of the corner-stones of the nations success. Not just the United States, but the entire world’s success depends on educating its citizens, and as we as a species continue to grow and broaden our horizons, peoples education will be more important.

 

The educational problem that we have here in the United States is really emblematic of a world-wide problem. As the opportunity for a primary and secondary college preparatory education is hindered and actually withheld from a section of people…..in the end the entire world suffers from the blunted activity of either intentionally, or by accident, keeping young people uneducated and ignorant, there will always be a distinction of the classes.

 

Today in the United States there actually is 12% of the population that is uneducated, or people with only some education, around 33,000,000. How can this be, by what thread of political activity can allow this situation to happen here in the United States?

 

Then there’s  the middle lower class, and the upper lower class…..are you getting all of this…..and some actually deny that the United States is based on classes of people…..right. Disregarding the uneducated bottom of the U.S. barrel labor force, those people who work at a temporary service making the prevailing minimum wage, and rely on governmental entitlements to exist on, the working poor can have an annual taxable income of between $20,000 and $40,000 a year.

 

These $20 to $40,000 income people have a high school education, a GED or some college, and the higher of these, the $40,000 people drive an automobile. That’s right, some people in the United States do not drive a car, and they don’t have a driver’s license, this is true, I know a couple of people like this…..no car or license, or they drive illegally.

 

Of course there’s the middle class, lower, middle and upper, a whole bunch of people’s favorite class cause that’s where most of us live. This group makes between $50,000 and $600,000 a year, have some college, or a college degree, they own their home and struggle their entire lives to amass as much net worth as they can…..but usually count only their home as their net worth.

 

Then there’s the upper or wealthy class of people, the crème-de-la-crème, those people who make $600,000 to whatever because I can’t count that high. Almost without exception these people are educated either from a state or private institution, and count their net worth in multiple property investments, or in multi-millions.

 

THE CRUX OF THE PROBLEM AT LEAST HERE IN THE U.S.

The problem that we have here in the United States is several fold, and gaining a college education isn’t really one of the solutions. Gaining a college educations is a middle class mirage,  a myth, a college degree is not a ticket to a successful life in the business world, to a better life financially….. to a beautiful blond wife,  2.5 kids, and an idyllic happy life.

 

With very little exception, a person coming from the lower strata of middle class will be saddled with a huge educational mortgage that can take as long as twenty or thirty years to pay off…..if that ever happens. You see a bankruptcy action cannot include an educational debt that was accrued during those wild and alcohol, drug hazed days of youth.

 

When a college degreed person reaches into his/her thirties or worse, forties, and the life has been straightened out through the attrition of marriage, kids, a home mortgage and car payments, the folly of how much is being paid for that scroll on the wall becomes increasingly immaterial at its best.

 

For some with just a few of the above mentioned problems, disillusionment with how they have governed their lives is probably the best of the consequences that have grabbed their life. Now this doesn’t happen to everybody, there are people out there who grab the bull by the-----, and rectify their lives, and become well adjusted, happy and productive people…..however we aren’t talking about those people, they’re getting along just fine, thank you.

 

We are talking about those people who for whatever reason have sunk into the pit that they dug themselves when their school loan was approved, and just before they drank their first beer, and smoked their first dooby. Strangely these people’s struggles didn’t start with the student loan, the beer, and the weed; it started at home, way along time ago when they first stepped into kindergarten.

 

Almost from the crib, there was a push by the parents, and even the grandparents to get little Johnny straight away into a college prep situation as quickly as possible. The little shaver was the vanguard of the family now, the hope for the future, not only of the family, but possibly the country, and dare it be dreamt…..the world.

 

IT’S A LOAD OF CRAP

Poor little Johnny, he was sold a bill of goods from his first gulp of air, and by his parents, relatives and environment, in many ways the little shaver is doomed. What a huge burden for a kid to have to carry around on his back, no wonder he partied in college.

 

The process of educational situations here in the United States needs to be completely revamped…..but don’t hold your breath; it ain’t going to happen overnight, or even in my lifetime if ever. There’s way too many fingers in the educational pie for the current practices to cease.

 

College loans are like house mortgages, really bad ideas, and poor business planning. I bought my house for $75,000 back in 2001, and by the time I get it all paid off (I won’t live that long) more than $350,000 will have been shelled out for it. In which way is that a good business move for me, it ain’t, because a $100,000 education…..with a loan will end up costing well over $300,000…..good luck with that one.

 

Here’s how we can solve this educational and class distinction problem that has been dogging our society for decades all in one swell swoop. From kindergarten through the 9^th grade every student is educated in the same way (of course this excludes the affluent) as a secondary type system.

 

At the end of the 9^th grade, every student takes an aptitude test which pigeon holes them into specific areas through the test apparatus. These kids are then put into a trade school situation, whether for plumbing, mechanic, truck driver, a carpenter, or a nuclear scientist, or doctor. Whatever the 9^th grade test indicates their areas of expertise.

 

These students are then retested after their 11^th grade year, and are revalued to see if their aptitude has changed after the specialized education, and on the job training. If there is a career change that is necessary, then at this time the change can be made.

 

Of course if a graduate wants to further his/her education there will be two or four year educations that will be available…..at the taxpayers’ expense. That’s right, what a novel idea, taxpayers paying for a young person’s education rather than sending him off to some bum----Egypt to get his butt shot off, and then us taxpayer’s will have to foot his rehabilitation…..or worse, pay for his altered life-style the rest of his natural life.

 

BITE ON THIS ONE FOR A WHILE

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