Segregation in education system

THE EDITOR: In April of 1983, a landmark study entitled “A Nation at Risk” was presented to President Reagan and to the American people by the National Commission on Excellence in Education.

Its findings were startling. Its conclusions were sobering. “The education foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our future as a nation and a people,” adding that “if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.” “We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament.”

There are some great schools and excellent teachers in our nation despite an incredibly serious teacher quality crisis. The truth is, thousands of children are locked into institutionalised failure, which can best be described as educational abomination. The very school system designed to educate them turns to be their worst enemy. Today, we face an epidemic of drug abuse, gangs and a deeply disturbing disrespect for authority. Government rules and regulations aren’t helping. More money isn’t helping. Substandard education and distorted values must not be imposed on our children, as it is criminal to relegate children to academic inferiority. “We are funding failure when we need to begin funding success.”

In fact, teachers do a good job under adverse circumstances. They’re asked to train/teach and are denigrated when things go wrong. Most of the whose who in society gain entry and send their children to the best schools in the country and in the process, downgrade and damage the culture of other schools. This is precisely the kind of segregation that contributes to system failure. All parents want their children in a disciplined, safe, and morally positive environment that reinforces values and principles. The child of every other man must have as good an opportunity as our own, and if this be our aim and this be our purpose, we would be the steadfast enemy of every influence, whether it be despotic or ignorant, which tries to undermine our educational system.

Therefore, it’s an epitome of fraud and hypocrisy when children from less prestige schools are turning out intellectually impotent. Dumbing down the curriculum and lowering academic standards is no challenge. Why strive for success when the mark can always be recalibrated? The failure to abandon extracurricular political activities will result in a percentage of the Education Ministry’s budget allocated to purchase metals detectors and Mobile Police Stations.

STANLEY J RYAN
Fyzabad