Viva French Students

There's something about the French students that reassures me that there is intelligence in our youth. American youth is not an inspiring lot. They are rather dull. I'm a child of the sixties, mind you, so I have high standards. Our students kill each other, we didn't, and neither do the French students. The only life I have witnessed in American youth was the election of Obama. Now it is silent. No anti war protests, no economic protests, no school reform protests. Acceptance is a sad thing I see in our American students.

The French students have a union. They want a voice in the reform. They strike and close schools. These students want the courses being cut, returned. They demand a good education. I wonder what would happen if American students actually used their numbers to have a voice. Sure we hear about an individual or group who protest and are punished severely and badly. In one case, the student went all the way to the Supreme Court.

Guys, students of America, please wake up. You are allowing the very people who have sent you to war to die or get maimed to make educational decisions for you based on business practices that have brought this country to its knees and is creating havoc all over the world. Your future is being determined by too many adults who don't have a clue, haven't a track record of success, and really don't care about you, but more about their own legacy and satiating their bosses and keeping their jobs. They aren't going to take risks or do anything that will be different from the same old same old.

Hearing about the French students striking and making demands is refreshing. I'm not surprised to see us in the problems we are in since the youth who has been educated in the last 20 years under very bad educational policy are the very people in control. Those educated in a heavy test environment are not going to know how to solve real problems since they are so multiple choice oriented and have too little problem solving skills and no collaborative skills. It is quite obvious to me that the youth of today really will be living and doing things far differently than their parents, otherwise they will not survive. So how can we still allow the failing generation to continue to dictate how education should continue, especially since is such a failure. Ironic that we allow adults who fail over and over again to continue on and get paid handsomely and when children fail once they are punished by being held back.