August

As August 2025 school year starts, I am keeping in mind the minds and hearts and souls of kids who have to endure public education.

Enough is enough.

Funny, frustrating, palm-to-the-head slapping thing I have learned in the past year of I.School- is the very lack of conversation IS the thing. I like to call it AI. Always interrupting. Any attempt to ask one simple critical question like: “why do we have to learn this?” Will be shut down and Fast!

ANY critical questioning will be diverted to politics, to the adults” in charge”, and NOT, for more than 90 seconds will the conversation stay with kids. The ones that are NOT doing well.

I happen to think everyone should care about kids and education. Not just for the future, but for the now.

It answers one simple question of -”How did we get here?” We could not be here today if not for an antiquated educational system exploiting kids.

And cut the crap about “I had to go to school, so you do too.” It’s illogical, selfish and childish. And most importantly not helpful to our current situation. It stops the conversation of, ok! What now? Problem solve! Oh, wait, that is difficult because the current (and past) educational system prevents kids from critical thinking. We get stuck in another thing I like to call “the tyranny of talk.”

We talk about the adults “in charge.” We talk about the politics, the economics, the fricking data. AndI believe- that will be more costly than imaginable. And what was it all for? Asked every war veteran since the Roman Empire.

You want change? Change the conversation. Stop talking. Do less. Not until you get answers to basic questions like, why am I spending my time with this? Example: How math-literate is the mass population? and Whose fault is that? Oh! the kids? Covid?- as if it was not a thing prior to? And where did that conversation come from? Who told that story? Who controls the narrative? (media and school? connection?)

How is that school mandated Back-to-School shopping going for us? Globally. Take time to think about it.

If you take your time. (Mornings, lunches, and saying NO to extra curricular activities) And refuse to take the bate of rhetorical nonsensical answers- to the most elementary of simple questions- refuse to have your time abused. Taking your time may be the most difficult of tasks you will face. Invest wisely.

Well, I think that is enough for today.

I travel. I learn. I am humbled. I will not stop trying to help kids. Staring with me. Learning on the road. Interviewing characters I hope to share if I can get some help here! ;) See? The funny, frustrating, palm-to-the-head slapping thing I have learned in the past year of I.School is I cannot for the life of me get a change in conversational direction. It is NOT political. Stop making the conversation so. Of course I don’t make sense and sound crazy. Any deviation will sound so.

Thoughts? How did school shape you?

Day 103. Thought I would empty out some of my head bucket.

But you students are always on my mind: