By Chenhotep Freeman
There is a serious crisis with
the condition of public education in Amerikkka, and to understand this
situation we must uncover the ruling class benefit in the under education of
the working class & African youth in our Communities. The current public
education system of this country was given birth in response to the industrial
development of this country. During the transition from the unpaid forced
agricultural slave labor that built this country into a technologically
advanced society, workers needed to have a simple low level of education in
order to maximize capital extraction (profit).
The public educational
institutions that compose Amerikkkas ineffective system was never designed to
educate its subjects into being independent thinking, productive, members of
society. During the early 1800’s the agricultural economy of Amerikkka was giving
way to industrialization and the enslaved Africans began to amplify their
struggles for freedom & self determination. Now the ruling class recognized
the changes in the economy and needed to develop an industrial working class to
replace the highly illiterate agricultural working class. Public education in
this country was created to produce workers for the wealthiest top percent of
citizens to exploit their skills and labor for profit and personal gain.
The economic system of capitalism
has to have a working class to mistreat and exploit in order to maximize
profits. Public schools act as the tool to keep the masses of the people
undereducated and dependant on selling their labor to provide the food, clothing
and shelter we need to survive. There have been many half-assed solutions to
the problem of failing public education such as magnet, alternative, and
charter schools but, none of these offers a long term sustainable solution to
the exploitation of the working class and African youths. There have been
policies updated and reauthorized by the O-bomb-ya administration to “reform”
the failing public education system the No Child Left Behind Act from 2001 as
well as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Both of these
actions were passed as a part of the “War on Poverty and Crime” proposals that
have proven extremely ineffective at solving the problem of inequality.
Here in Kansas City, MO there has
been a crises around the issue of educating the working class African youth
that comprise the majority of the Kansas City School District. During the past
two years, the KCMO school district has had their former superintendent Dr.
John Covington close nearly one-third of schools and overcrowd the remaining
schools in the district. Recently Dr. Covington resigned prior to the end of
his contract to take a job at another predominately African, failing, school
district in Detroit, MI.
There is a practical alternative
to this crisis in Amerikkkan public education and it is to create a contending
home school community controlled educational institution. Working class peoples
across this nation should organize ourselves to provide the solution to this
dilemma.
1 Response(s):
Asante for this article. It appears to me that the national educational system needs to be deconstructed from top down, in order to construct an equitable system that is INCLUSIVE OF ALL CHILDREN!
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