Failing Our Future

 By Kelly Bridgewater

America used to be the brightest, most educated country in the world. We could compete with other countries.

But . . . not anymore.

We are pretty dumb for a nation.

Students cannot write.

Students cannot do simple math in their heads.

Students cannot comprehend anything.

Even the simplest of instructions.

The schools send them through like cattle.

Here is our graduation rate. We have released all these students in to the wild, but the sad thing is most of them can’t do the basic.

Then the sad thing is that they move onto the universities. Then the universities have to play catch up with the basics that they should have learned in high school.

Even colleges today are not as tough as they used to be.

BUT all students and even some parents are buying the lie that they have to have a degree to be successful, so they go into debt for the undereducated degrees only to fail in the end.

No job prospects. Nothing in the field they studied for.

1000 students have the same degree. One position opened.

So the other 999 have to work minimum wage jobs to make ends meet, and pay back the loans they took, but they don’t make the paycheck they believed they would receive.

My brother did not graduate high school. He is a contractor and a licensed plumber. He will not settle for anything less than $45 an hour with a company vehicle that pays for his gas.

I have the Master’s degree and make barely above minimum wage.

What kind of future are we leaving for our children? Debt? With no way to ever pay it back? No job prospects? Education that has not truly trained them.

I see some nursing students who come in my job, and I would not want them working on me for nothing. They are not bright.

Graduate students who receive a Ph.D. in Physical Education. Really!!! What are you going to do with that? Gym teacher for $30,000 a year with $100,000+ in debt. Not logical.

Our future is really horrible in America.