Hello World!

Hello internet, this is my first post on this particular blog. I created this blog to vent my frustration and offer constructive criticism of the educational system in the US. I hope to combine empirical studies that have been done with my own personal experiences in order to offer my own opinions and solutions regarding the problems we face and their solution, in the hope that someone may read this and agree. It is my opinion that students deserve the same 40 hour workweek as adults, that trade skills must be regarded as legitimate, and trade professions as necessary and equal to corporate or academic professions. I believe that students must participate in the inner workings of their school, democratically, in order to create the next generation of truly responsible and successful citizens. I also believe that, while change may come from the top eventually, change will come faster if students demand these rights. It is not right for students to work 50-60 hours per week to meet questionable standards, with the only reward being the possibility that sometime, in the future, they may find a better paying job, that may or may not fit their passions (which they are not encouraged to identify or pursue). Students must demand these rights, using the same passive forms of protest that characterizes other successful movements. In essence, the students must unionize, and demand, not ask for, the rights that every person deserves. Change will be slow, and difficult, but it can happen, and must happen, if we wish to prevent the academic, intellectual, and perhaps even economic collapse of our society.

-Fabian