Requiem for Reality

So I'm sitting here staring at these books for this exam I have next week. Certainly I'm going to continue studying, but why? Why should I put myself through all of this so that I can hopefully have an attempt at getting a job that may possibly provide for my family, allowing them to move up a class, so that their kids don't have to consider these conundrums?

We observe through the upper crust of society, time and time again, people who have worked so hard that they achieved their dream of obtaining upward mobility. From this we infer that if we also work hard, like them, we can achieve this as well. The problem with this dream we have been sold is that not everyone can get into grad school. Not everyone can get into a four year degree, and worse still, some cannot get into a 2 year degree.

Could it be the primary education system? The public schools? Certainly that's a possibility, but there are so many other causes to try to place the blame on just his one. Our education system needs an overhaul. We need to take what we are attempting to give to Wall street to help them in our time of crisis, to the schools, and the consumers themselves. Inner cities still are currently unable to maintain equal scores in standardized testing with suburban school districts. Taxes don't seem to be leveling the playing field either. We need to attempt to start funding the inner city schools so that they can get some sort of equipment and books that will allow them to achieve higher education standards.

More than that though, it's not just about the money there. It's also about the fact that upper education is so difficult to reach because the cost of higher education is raising every semester. So what ends up happening is people start to hear ideas that they might not be able to succeed further than a high school degree. They decide I'm not gonna try to even think about affording that. Besides I might not be able to get a job when I get out, so then I'll have debt up to my eyeballs, and no job, and nothing to show for anything. So what's even the point of trying to attempt it?

If we are going to require that people have at least a bachelors degree to get a decent job to help pay for their family, then we need to allow them to attend colleges and universities. I don't have all the solutions, but one idea I do have is that we allow students to go to a 4 year university, and the tax payers fit the bill (I know uggh higher taxes right, but hear me out) on the contigent that they sign a contract to stay employed in the state of their schooling for a specified amount of time. That way jobs are created, and the economy is stimualted.

I don't know, the counter argument is that if everyone has a degree then they don't mean as much, but so does that mean that there MUST be poor and sugffering for there to be those who have money? And does that mean that I'm suggesting a form of socialist republic? Communism? Not at all I'm just trying to question the reality of our society. Must they continue to make the upper class so unreachable so that I continue to struggle, and they get richer off of me?


There is no solution I suppose. Our society is based on these principles and in order to become one of those who get a piece of the American dream, it looks like I'll have put someone else below the poverty line.