The crisis of education in the Dallas ISD

Dallas Justice Now is currently shining a light on the failing schools of the Dallas ISD along with those who have no choice but to send their children to these institutions. We are uncovering shocking levels of dysfunction that are depleting teacher’s passion for teaching as well as providing lackluster safeguards for the students. Credible sources report that due to a barrage of test taking which serves to justify academic effectiveness via scoring and performance. Therapeutic moments like recess, arts and crafts and shop classes are often substituted with courses designed to help students pass tests.

Anytime there are widespread reports of public schools serving children moldy rotten and spoiled food, then it is time to go back to the drawing board and retool the institutions to better serve our children and society.

Public schools shouldn’t be reduced to industrial conveyor belts that produce broken young adults.

Yet this seems to be exactly what the Dallas ISD is intent on accomplishing…especially in these underserved neighborhoods. It represents a key dysfunction in the sordid underbelly of urban liberal culture in Dallas…whose primary symptom is to be generationally unsustainable…while the cream of the culture rises to the top…and the wealth gap for these sectors widen unfavorably.

There are ongoing themes in the Dallas ISD. The first of which is inequality in regards to zip code. So in neighborhoods that are considered “at risk” , there are also more affordable housing initiatives and projects(welfare funded living spaces). These constructions drive up the population, while lowering the tax base and driving down the value of property owners who have worked hard to own their homes.

As this is happening, wealthier more affluent neighborhoods get parks, plazas and promenades…all tied up with the meritocratic marvels of gains in property values and legacies left to their progeny.

Those attending these institutions in wealthier zip codes can count on their children becoming tomorrows doctors, lawyers, engineers, architects and creatives.

All at the cost of our future…which is our children.

Many believe that private and charter schools provide the necessary counterbalance that would keep the public sector competitive…while more feel as though it’s time to take a more drastic approach to how education is structured. The concept of public education is not that old…and can be refashioned to provoke purpose in future lives.

If we had guilds and trade schools that focused on the innate talents of children then a dime to a dollar says we wouldn’t see so many children of color ending up in juvenile detention. Not all of us were meant for the kind of higher education proposed by a liberal American model of the privatized institution. There are opportunities in trade schools and as well as agriculture that lead not only to gainful employment, but to business ownership and entrepreneurship as well.

Why is this so important?

Because the best kind of bullet proof vest we can buy for each other is making sure that everyone has access to decent meaningful education that can lead to gainful employment and a life away from a government infused culture of handouts based on hardship.