Our schools are failing. There is no question on that. However, a good question is: Why are our schools failing?
To tell you the truth, our schools are failing because they have ceased to become academic establishments. Instead, they're the great American melting-pot. Personal Thought: Melting down our youth and turning them into nothing. However, are schools meant to be a source of idealogy or a source of knowledge. See, children can only take in so much. It's why their grades suffer when they take on too many extra-curricular activities. But, now the extra-curricular has become the curriculum. Instead of having huge classes sit through an hour of learning, they sit through a half-hour of learning, a half-hour of programming. Classes exist with no merit other than this programming. English classes teach this programming. Language classes teach this programming. Art classes teach this programming. And this programming is not all-inclusive. Anything that causes the slightest twinge of discomfort is thrown out. It becomes one great happy day at school. But certain groups are opressed. See, in order to forge the great alloy of the American machine, certain ores must be excluded, and certain ores should be included more prominently, even though there's less of them. You see, traditional people, that's all fine. They have their own schools, their own worship, they don't have to do it in school. However, everyone else must. This is intentionally confusing. The people they have to thank for the weekends can do their work then, but not during the week. There is no hope, there is no debate.
With their eyes sewn shut, no light can shine, they ensure they'll never wake from dead, they try to trample any trace of His divinity's hope, they'll sacrifice their young. -Demon Hunter (paraphrased)