The current business model used to run
our schools plays a significant role in grooming children for life into the
bitter cold and human crushing penal system. A “…more conscious and effective way to address the incarceration” of
our youth is to completely mend the dysfunctional disconnect between (A) affluent
Board Members, (appointed by our government to the Board/Department of
Education), (B) Government Officials, and (C) the people which they all once
took an oath to serve in good faith; Children (and those closest to the
children).
In part, credence for such
dysfunctional disconnect is owed to the numbing conditioning that stems from
constantly thinking, discussing, and referring to students, teachers, and parents
in terms of mere numbers on an lifeless spreadsheet or graph.
In order for us to appeal to the
humanity of our very wealthy brothers and sisters appointed to The Board/Department
of Education, (to influence, from a very far distance, the lives of our
children, families and futures, with their policies, procedures, and business
models), it is crucial that we, (teachers, students, and parents), as a
collective, candidly write and openly share, complete and genuine accounts of incidents
that transpire in schools including the “professional” steps taken by leaders,
that work directly below our board members, to address such incidents. I am
willing to collect and archive such incident reports and I am very grateful to those whom have already made submissions, (my email is listed
below).
It is imperative that we strive to make
it “real” for our well-off brothers and sisters that sit on The Board/Department
of Education so that they can clearly see and maybe even feel a modicum of
concern for how their own business model, archaic policies and procedures,
actions &/or inactions, resistance against advocacy and perception toward our
public school children all propagate the destruction of quality education and
the destruction of the human condition.
We need to provide warm bodies, not to
profitable prison corporations, but to these mundane, inanimate numbers we tend
to confuse with real live, breathing and feeling brothers and sisters. We need to do this
in order to remind our beautiful fellow humans that they bleed like us, hurt
like us, and at the end of this journey of borrowed time, will depart like
us.
In order to further facilitate an
effective “plug-in” to these foreign yet powerful portions of the school system
we need - (1) to have fair, genuine, and productive open discussions about the “unspoken
factors” that directly inhibit student learning, effective teaching, and safety
in our schools, (2) to have strong and enforceable laws that genuinely protect
well intended advocates from persecution, (3) to have strong and enforceable
laws that effectively train and justly hold leaders (on all levels) legally
accountable for abusing their power to violate others’ basic constitutional
rights, for coercing others into toxic conformity, and for engaging in other
immoral and unethical business practices, & most importantly, (4) to have
our government leaders become crystal clear and loudly hear the well documented
echoes of our frustrated yet resilient voices and vigorous resolve collectively
chanting, “NO MAS! WE ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! OUR CHILDREN DESERVE
BETTER! THE EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY DESERVES BETTER! ”
Right now we have a school system where
good hearted and well educated humans cannot even speak their minds and/or advocate
for the rights of others without being persecuted by abusive leaders. This is a
systemic disease that can and will be cured.
If we all focus our attention on mending
the existing dysfunctional disconnect between higher administrators and those
closest to the students and students themselves, we are bound to make great
strides in paving the way to a safer, healthier, more nurturing and productive academic
environment.
If we all focus our energy on improving
this aspect of the problem we can facilitate a monumental shift in paradigm that
will be historical for our Government, The Public Schools System and the
Human Condition; namely, a paradigm shift which navigates far away from an
academic culture that closely resembles our broken penal system where people are caged and forgotten about and much closer
to an academic culture that resembles empathy, family, advocacy, and respect
for everyone’s natural disposition to want to be free, loved, and thrive in
everything that they do. We owe this to all children!
“The
world is divided into those who see that there is a problem and those who deny
that there is a problem. Many of the people that deny that there is a problem
are the older folks in the profession who would have to admit that they have
used bogus evidence to obtain convictions. And that is a hard thing to admit.”
(John J. Lentini, Scientific Fire Analyst, National Geographic).
If the people currently in power are
not willing to change because they cannot get passed the idea of having to
admit that they have "dropped the ball" for so long, we should at least leave behind,
for future generations, a life-jacket in order to stay afloat the mess we
irresponsibly and consciously decided to leave for them and which they can utilize to swim to shore and save our future in The Department of Education. We should leave them an archive of
information that genuinely reveals what is truly happening in the school system,
how complaints of abuse are actually handled, and where the problems really
lie - in the dysfunctional disconnect between critical players which breeds an
administrative culture invincible to accountability, which condones and
facilitates a culture allowed to engage in immoral and unethical business
practices including creating and enforcing laws, policies and procedures that
directly abridge human’s basic constitutional rights.
Like I mentioned above, I am willing to
collect and maintain a library of people’s account of incidents that occur in
schools. To candidly write and openly share, complete and genuine accounts of
incidents that transpire in schools, including the “professional” steps taken
by our leaders to address such incidents, please write the reports and send to
my email address listed below. Individual identities will be kept completely
confidential from my end. If some still fear retribution for sharing these
reports, they can email me the reports from a less identifiable email address.
Thank you immensely for your time
and energy in this very important matter and for all that you do to make this
world a better place. Best to everyone always!
Sincerely,
Luis Angel Perez,
Middle School Science & Mathematics,
First Grade, Fourth Grade Educator & Advocate
