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In an increasingly dangerous world, America has chosen a curious time to abandon its young. There’s great shame in being the first generation to pass our offspring a lesser version of the American Dream than we received. We’ll reap that sowing when they catch on.
Baby-boomer betrayals bloom in many forms. Indifference to America’s historical achievement model, entitlement thinking, greed, and not preparing our children for the challenges ahead are billboards to our failure.
America’s historical success equation is characterized by liberty, opportunity, and responsibility as an authentic foundation for hope and prosperity. We’ve embraced the freedom to debauch ourselves, steal from the labors of others, and evade accountability as a contrasting progressive portal to cultural self-destruction.
Baby-boomers were raised to believe we’re special and deserve unearned benefits. We’ve been silent while Medicare, Social Security, and most every other government program was underfunded or robbed. Few have invested anything close to what we’ll take out and we’re complacently passing the bill to our children.
A dedication to consumption over production and refusal to live within our means has bankrupted America and there’s no practical equation for repaying that debt. In a self-correcting world, economic upheaval is an assured outcome.
Nature persistently tells us that entitlement expectations, ignorance, victim thinking, and sloth make one a target for predators, not prosperity. Education reform is a crucial antidote.
Many communities suffer a physical drop-out rate of 40%. Students who do graduate often have marked skill and knowledge deficits. Dumbed down curriculum and social engineering are dead-ends, not bridges to adulthood.
Upon graduation, instead of maximizing local and technologically based resources, we’re sending our kids to expensive universities for vanity fixes. Bumper stickers, stadium access, and bragging rights do not compensate for the student loans, unmarketable degrees, and socialistic indoctrinations that return.
The liberal answer of more funding, facilities, and fast-talking education czars doesn’t work. A rededication to reason, responsibility, reality and right might. That transition will not come through politicized government intrusions. Liberal obsessions with money, policies, and control cannot replace the indisputable key to education reform – the connected, loving, empowered, and answerable hands of parents and teachers closest to the student.
It’s revealing that Republicans, not teachers unions, Democrats, or education bureaucrats, are championing the expansion of charter schools. Competition stimulates performance and excellence. That conservative lesson in education reform has long been resisted by donkeys – commendably remembered by elephants…
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