Education Reform?

A leading Washing think-tank just released a startling report on eliminating waste in our educational system. This report, which marks the conclusion of a year-long study at the cost of who knows how much taxpayer money, defines a new educational approach for America’s children. The panel of researchers who collaborated on it looked at everything from dropout rates, to teen pregnancy, to the effect of social media on education.

Their final result, published in a 1,001 page long document, suggests eliminating education entirely. It is interesting to note that the report suprasses that 1,000 page threshold, which is the new gold standard here in Washington. Any report that long is considered to be true and accurate, no matter who wrote it or what they say.

While educators and politicians nationwide are stunned by this amazing conclusion, there are a small group of brave souls who are cautiously getting on board with the results, saying that they’d seen the country going in this direction for many years.

Backing up the conclusion is the failure of our current educational system to properly prepare the youth of America for the workforce. While they authors recognize that there are many contributing factors to this, they hang their hat on the fact that education isn’t as fun as video games. Therefore, they state, eliminating education, so that our youth can concentrate on their video games is a sound practice, preparing them to be successful at something in life.

To make this plan work, they propose shifting the burden to employers; not in educating the employee, but rather in changing the workplace to more closely match the video games. That would make work as fun as education, and surely attract the talents of the best and brightest.

This new plan should eliminate both in school and in place boredom; helping to engage both students and worker more thoroughly in their occupations. Several additional benefits have been noted, namely a lower absentee rate, less likelihood for workplace theft and eliminating problems with getting people to work overtime.

A sidebar to the report notes the need to keep a few schools open, for the purpose of training those few people who want a real education, so that they can enter boring occupations, such as medicine, law, engineering and accounting. It is anticipated that there will be very few student who voluntarily opt for continuing their traditional, boring education.

The new study is currently being analyzed by the department of education. Should it be adopted, it could cost the jobs of many millions of teachers, nationwide. However, the reduction in government spending on education would allow welfare to support those out of work teachers.