Education and the Structural Crisis of Capital

Besides all the monopolies and industrialization of school, it further more costs future employers’ drastically due to all the training they have to account for.  Since our school system isn’t giving us hands-on training, our employers are forced to do it.  Even many college classes are still related to book smarts, industrialization and a money maker, but very little hands-on, real-life training actually occurs.

What is the real purpose for all the testing they give our high school students?  Is it to really see how much knowledge they know or to produce more money for the school district?  Many can sit down and take a test, but have no idea how the concepts really work in real job scenarios.  These standardized testing standards are a false assessment of where an individual stands.  It has been proven time and time again, that even if you pass these tests, you fail in real life, as well as those who don’t pass the testing my come out and excel above the rest.

This NCLB act, just allowed the government to take even more control over our school system by the amount of school forced to restructure from lack of APY scores.  Most schools that failed the APY scores had few options for restructuring, but choose to relinquish control of the school over to the state, thus more government power.

Then you still have the issue of money.  Where is all this money going that these institutions or school districts are raising?  Many school have completely cut out extracurricular activities completely.  I know that one of the High Schools here in Richmond, Kentucky only require two semesters of P.E. (Physical Education).  When I was much younger and in school, that was a 3x’s a week requirement.  There were always kids out on our streets playing football, tag, basketball or any other physical activity that they have learned in school.  That is obsolete, we just don’t see that anymore.

Art is another class that has vanished from many American schools.  Art may not be seen as important, but it can lead to a whole new area of communication as it has for thousands of years.  Art can also be useful in breeding hobbies, that so many of us Americans don’t have anymore, its either video games, watching television or eating.  Art class can be so much more than learning how to draw or paint, sewing, cross-stitching, candle making, etc. were all forms of hobbies that are currently obsolete.

In a nut shell, there news to be an intense look at our school system in all regions of America.  The future work force doesn’t even stand a chance in todays’ society as it is, however if they converted to community training, hands-on activities, and classes meshed together teaching my science interacts with math, and why history intermingles with economy, etc. we have a good chance at becoming the number one nation again.  Money should never been the reason why a child doesn’t get the proper education, or why big business are industrializing our institutions. This has got to change.

Foster, John B. "Education and the Structural Crisis of Capital." Monthly Review. N.p., 22 Aug. 2011. Web. 14 Sept. 2011.