Jump ahead 150 years to modern times, and the new plantations have once again refused to teach the blacks. I find it appalling that the teachers unions have taken it upon themselves to ensure that black students are "dumbed down". How do they do it, after all we educate everyone in our public school system. We pay an exorbitant amount of taxpayer money to educate all children. So why do the illiteracy rates keep climbing? Why does the ignorance of history, geography, mathematics, science, civics and even current events keep getting deeper.
I am tired of the old haggard argument that it is because of the horrible home life students have, and they cannot be motivated to learn. What a load of horse manure you are handing out. During the worst oppression to them, black people were motivated to learn, to be informed, to be empowered. Why is it that they could be motivated to learn while they were being threatened with physical harm (they were beaten if found reading), but today they do not even want to learn? I am pretty sure the lack of motivation is not coming from the homes. I know a lot of black people, and they want a better life for their kids, they want them to be educated, and many are trying desperately to find solutions to the public schools seeming lack of incentive to educate them.
Some of the worst educated people are coming out of the inner city public school systems. When we send our kids to these schools, we are basically handing them over to a union-controlled plantation, where they are strapped to desks for days on end and forced to work, but are never actually educated. As long as the unions keep ensuring the teachers are encouraged to spread mediocrity, there will continue to be no education in our education system. How in the world can you expect kids to learn when you provide no incentive to them?
Now, I am not saying we should start whipping kids for reading to motivate them to learn, but lets at least allow them the opportunity to increase their desire to learn. The current schools provide an atmosphere of discouraging excellence; do not do more than required, you will not be rewarded. And they spend minimal time on actually teaching the basics, all their time in the class room is mandated by the useless Federal Department of Education, with non-education, agenda-driven fluff: sex education, sensitivity training, self-actualization, socialistic indoctrination, self-esteem, and anti-American propaganda. All this creates in our kids the idea that they are owed something from the world, and they don't need to actually accomplish anything on their own to earn it. And if by chance a child wants to do better than everyone else, they are provided negative reinforcement until they get over that desire.
Trust the schools? I think not. Trust the unions? Never. Trust the government? Puh-lease! For all three of these entities, the goal is to NOT educate the children, instead the goal is to keep them uneducated and slaves to the government. The system has only gotten worse since the progressives have gotten control over it, and the people putting the underclass in chains is in reality the educators, who offer a free-of-charge system that doesn't educate anyone.
