Casual Corruption…this time “education”.

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette headline 1/13/10:      58 schools inflated grades in math

Just think, a system had to be implemented to catch schools’
cheating on their students’ scores, but once caught, no heads roll.  At least those students aren’t supposed to
receive the Arkansas Lottery Scholarships—but who knows?

The very idea schools are cheating is outrageous enough, the
fact there are no real consequences is criminal.  Who can have confidence in anything the
educantists say?

Their crimes are many: Stealing knowledge from pupils; robbing
society of educated citizens; teaching a rotten lesson that truth, merit and
hard work are no longer worthy goals; instilling the idea that the ends justify
the means, i.e. corruption is quite okay.

The media is complicit in this racket by reporting the
schools’ corruption in a casual manner too.

Some blame goes to the horrific No Child Left Behind fiasco,
but that’s no excuse.  Where are the complaints
and outrage of academia and parents? Why aren’t Fed funds rejected, they are
insignificant anyway, demonstrating many are willing to sell their souls for a
mess of potage.

Officials blame facilities (one-room schools managed)
instead of revised dumbed-down curriculum dictated by D.C. bureaucrats, always demanding
more funding.

Pity the ignorant, propagandized, semi-literate children whose
futures have been hijacked and thus the entire Constitutional system of
individual rights and responsibilities.

Public education today is as corrupt and unaccountable as
the rest of government, perhaps more. Treating corruption casually, with no consequences
is our death knell.  

Barbara McCutchen