The truth of the world

HAY GUYS! I'm in America! Theres all these weird people here. They're all trying to like work and do stuff. And every day they walk around to useless jobs which pay hardly
anything due to the gov stealing half their money and then corporations stealing the other half! BUT THEY KEEP WORKING ZOMG WTF. I stopped one on the street and asked him why he kept working if he was just working to make other people rich. but he was like "Dude, if I dont work i'll starve," because while speech is a right, barely, apparently staying alive isn't. So i was like, what kind of fucked up place is this!?

You want to talk about education problems and how it relates to America? Let me give a few words then.

On a governmental level, the education system is a problem we solve with short term planning and by throwing money at. Then when that oviously fails, more short term planning followed by blame, then more money. The broad curriculum is pretty much set in order to give the largest smattering of topics that is assumed to be needed, and is not always set by people who have actually taught. Not enough time is even alloted to make sure that the curriculum is taught correctly, especially when new standards say that there should be certain amounts of tests taken and random busywork. From there, blame falls to teachers.

Now, I have had good teachers and I have had terrible teachers, but with two exceptions, somehow I managed to get through and actually learn something. My family has a tradition of being teachers, so at the risk of weakening my argument, I tend to side with them as I know what they have to go through.

No, the main problem I think is that as a society we have built ourselves up to a point where we are 1 or 2 paychecks away from being on the streets because we have severely overextended ourselves financially. To afford the computers we are utilizing, the electricity, presumably the housing, and the internet... how much does this luxury cost us? Virtually everyone in my parents' classes come from homes where both parents overwork themselves to maintain the artificial standard of living that we all enjoy. As such, where is the prep work for these kids then? Do their parents buy them a book and read it to them, or get some form of enertainment they can use themselves so they can get a little rest? Personal experience says fuck no to the former, hell yes to the latter.

So while we trudge through our jobs to afford the 1800+ square foot house, pay for fast food, maybe our inefficient cars, and the giant TV's that are all status symbols to wear in lieu of pride, we don't try to offend. In the process, we just decide to ignore parts of the world that might offend us, because that works too. Then, as a result, we make other countries envious of our wealth and angry at our ignorance; let our government slide on things that we should raise our voices against, giving them just another inch of our liberty. And so it goes, this vicious little cycle, but hey, at least you're getting paid, right?

Please, add on to what I have written, correct me where I am wrong. I would love to figure out entirely where the cracks in Western Civilization are forming.