In this Lifetime

"No Child Left Behind" is a slogan only the simple-minded can hear and truly believe. It's suppose to mean that those will a lower vantage point for learning won't be left in the dust of those who will succeed in every aspect of life. To those who look closer, it means something else. Yes, everyone is given the same opportunity to graduate and become greater things, but to those who's vantage point can brush the stars, this is a drawback that pulls them down so hard and so fast it gives them whiplash.

In this lifetime, we will experience "our modes of Education [aiming] to expedite, to save labor; to do for the masses what cannot be done for the masses, what must be done reverently, one by one" because some guy in a nice looking suit said that no child was to be left behind. That our educaters must, for a lack of better words, dumb things down in order for everyone to be able to keep up.

We will be challenged, yes; but not the point where we must spend countless night pouring over a text book and accompanying worksheets heavy enough to pull my arm from its socket. Instead, I will read, just as everyone else has, To Kill a Mockingbird, and answer questions that are completely irrelevant and frankly idiotic. This lets us "slip by" through high school, maybe even college; but then come the oh-so-sweet words of endearment turned into a sour "No!" when our mediocre credentials don't come to terms with the rest of the world's standards.

Emerson had things right down the the heartbeat of the entire entity. Our system requires that everyone succeeds; but we need those who do the "not so important jobs" like being the who pours cement to lay the foundation of the home where you depend on it holding in a storm, sheltering your family. Our world needs those who, without a "proper" education, think differently because they were never exposed to the methods we use to teach. Many teachers of mine tend to focus on the fact that "the lesson is done for today" and don't hone in on the fact that no one has any idea what they're talking about. Then after an extensive amount of added stress in the form of "questions 1-50", we break, losing our lust in chasing after what our society requires out of us.

Because of what they tell us, we will go with the flow of things, trudging along with twenty pound blogs strapped to our feet as we wade through the mud of High School. At this point, a writer would point out that "it's for the better of things". Sadly, no, it's not. Our doctors are suppose to be smarter than others. They control the outcome of our lives! But because this doctor was taught the same as the guy scanning bar codes at Wal-Mart, he'll give the wrong dosage. Perscribe the wrong medicine. Cut open the wrong thing.

In this lifetime, we have destroyed the next.