Education, Culture, Individualism: Public School in a Struggle for Authority

Publisher Marketing: American public education has had a long and failed run at providing exemplary education for all students. The system needs reconstruction not more reformation. In order to produce a truly democratic school, the public school needs to be protected from the three factors that have guaranteed failure for over two centuries: a remote authority, cultural intrusion and student-individual incursion. In the proposed New School, defenses against this triadic attack would be swift and replaced as necessary, immediately provided and never caused to outstay usefulness. This of course could only be accomplished by and for each school setting its own defensive rules, rules established to allow for an exemplary education for all students. Any suggestion of blanket rulings only points out that the boards and district bosses have little to no understanding and are not concerned with specific school needs. The New School would protect students from an education corrupted by culture influences and the degeneracy of a ephemeral student-individualism sporting borrowed identity. The New School would be run from within, this worthy school would be the result of reconstruction to replace a school ideology which has long lost the educational struggle to educate our children. Contributor Bio:  Stewart, J D Mark A. Stewart, J. D. is a member of the State Bar of California and former Instructor at Santa Barbara College of Law and California Polytechnic State University