LET'S BE REAL!

   The ability of our Public-School Educators K-12 to transcend the traditional teaching in class, and to develop our student's ability to understand life as they live it, as well as understand the different "People" around us, we live with has proven to be a challenge. 

   Our Public-School students are and have always been trained/taught in a uniformed formatted (School Curriculum/Lesson Plans) way in classrooms, that today more than ever are expected to reach classrooms filled with "multi-Races". 

How our "Educators" communicate with different students do not always result in the type of "Constructive", not to be confused with "Creative" conversations or dialog that teachers strive for.

   The teacher should not have to come up with "Clever" teachable moments hoping to produce a spark, because the Student of Color needs to "See" development beyond the markings of the "Traditional" way of teaching in the Public-School classrooms! 

   Today, we have very Capable Scholars and Educators of all color inside the classrooms able to guide our youth of color and beyond into "Their" future. 

   But moving our children in general through our current "Formal Educational Process" has shown to produce too many cases (Students) that go well past their personal "Formal Educational Process" (Public-School System K-12) without "Ever" representing or seeing the development promised and expected in the beginning and at the back end of their "Educational Process"! (Public-School System K-12) 

   Many of our Educators have shown to be more than capable, individually, to move students past the "GOAL" line, but very few Educators move in unison with fellow Educators to make a significant difference for the whole body of students, collectively.

   It is because our children in general are not developing overall as they should, we clearly need an overhaul to our Public School System Curriculum! 

A wise man once said:

"If you have something to say, then say it." 

   Our Children of Color, of African Descent within certain "Inner Cities and Rural Areas" that are filled predominately with these Children of Color, of African Descent are not developing anywhere close to their/our potential. 

   Unfortunately, as "Adults" of color, of African Descent as we claim our brother's and sister's, sons and daughters as a whole, we must admit and accept the fact that overall, "WE", current adults of color have not come close to our full "Potential"... 

How could we have? Which is why the "Curriculum" is the focus and needs readjusting.

   Now, based off a speech to the Vermont Homeschooling Conference, given by: John Taylor Gatto who is also the former New York State Teacher of the year who renounced the government school system in his landmark book "DUMBING US DOWN" says "The real purpose of modern schooling was announced by the legendary sociologist Edward Roth in his manifesto of 1906 called "Social Control". In it Roth wrote: "plans are underway to replace family, community and church with propaganda, mass-media and education (of course he meant schooling), people are only little plastic lumps of dough".

   Another insider, H.H. Cadard, chairman for the Psychology Department at Princeton, called government schooling approvingly -- "the perfect organization of the hive with the anthill". Cadard wrote further, "standardized testing would cause the lower class to confront their biological inferiority, sort of like wearing a dunce cap. In time that would discourage reproduction of the ants on the anthill"

   "The first curriculum was dumbed down, then national testing was inserted, next morality was weakened and finally between 1970 and 1974, teacher training in the U.S. was comprehensively and covertly revamped"...... You can read the entire speech for yourself by googling John Taylor Gatto.

   The American Public School System was never created or designed to enhance the "Advancements" of Students in general, but Students of Color, of African Descent "Specifically" were never included in the plans that would make America great (Again/Wow), meanwhile, outside in the cotton fields where Students of Color were being brought to start learning in Chains and Shackles way back when...

   The "High Court" rulings in favor of these little black kids going to school with these little white kids did not change the "Curriculum" of learning that was never created or designed for these Kids of Color, of African Descent within our inner city and rural area Public School Systems across this country.

   I'm proposing that we have enough "Educated Professionals" Black and White to take their blinders off and change the current Public School System curriculum to specifically address the children being taught as well as how these children are being assimilated into this country as a whole. 

CIVICS - U.S. HISTORY - WORLD HISTORY

   Sometimes, what "Needs" to be "Heard" as the wise man suggests, is "Lost" in the "Translation" of what's actually being said. Some way we must figure out how to come together and bring our Children of Color, of African Descent back home, (Metaphorically) before we lose "Our" entire identity as well as our rightful "Place" on this earth as "People" of African Descent.

   We need to confront that "something" that has been hiding in the dark, that has been taking our Children of Color for generations, further and further away from "Their/Our" true understanding of their/our true forefathers.

"Broken from what we were, but not from what we are meant to be"......

Greetings! It is I The Black Pearl Poet.

Now I do understand that in many ways, short is sweet,
but listen my children, this is not a tweet.

Trying to communicate and be understood,
trying to be heard while trying to sound good.

From the old to the young is always a hard transition,
when trying to pass along knowledge it becomes a frustrating proposition.

So, without using or wasting too many words,
I'll keep it short and leave it to what you heard.

Our schools that are filled with young black faces,
need to know as much about themselves as they do the other races.

The biggest challenge is to get the young to listen to the old,
or is it to get the old to listen to the young who are trying to be bold.

Hmm! The story continues......

Peace!

                                                                 Written by: Sherman Shepherd