I have written quite a bit for this site so you can feel free to look at other articles and perhaps your passion will rise, perhaps it will not.

My job is to report within analytical context what is going on this country. Due to the fact this is not any United States, what goes on in Georgia is of interest to those who live behind the walls of say Nevada or Ohio.

Again, though, the purpose of my writing is both to let others know what is transpiring and how, and what they can do about it.

I certainly hope you are involved in duing something, Garret for after all, your question is “Why should I care” and this seems to convey the simple fact that unless personally touched by tragedy, the American people do not care.

Thanks for writing

Danny

Danny

Scholarship money is offered as a public incentive to promote excellence in learning, Jwat. This is not what is being written about. Scholarships are an incentive availabel to all within the ‘common’s. What this article is about is competetive individualism within failing social and economic structures. I certainly have nothing wrong with scholarship oney but it is not used for the same goal: scholarships have as their goal to uplift proven expertise within a field and allow for a subisidy to grant more opportunities; paying kids for tests then using the inflated tests as currency to ‘get into college’ destroys the whole principle of learning and the whole merit system you are proposing and which scholarships are a part.

To understand why offering the moral values of materialism, covetous acquisition, go it alone individualism, and external rewards based on values that herald the aforementioned can be seen in the emphasis placed on these capitalist, materialistic values by the quote in the article:

One student in New York, Alize Cancel, a 13-year-old at IS 286, spent some of the $180 she has earned this year on school supplies and shoes.

“It’s all we talk about. Every day we ask our teachers, ‘Did we pass? When do we get paid? It made me study more because I was getting paid” (ibid).

It’s what we talk about everyday, how to get more points, more money, more currency, more ‘value for your life’ and learn this at eight or nine years old.’ This is what you are teaching, be materialistic, narcistic, care only about yourself, hand to hand combat as a social norm is acceptable and money, grades are wealth.

That we have reached this wretched stage of ‘learning’ can best be summed up by what I quote above. To compare scholarships with the buying and selling of grades and the colonization of consciousness which offers up a morality of commodities as wealth is shameful

Danny

Think of the monetary reward as “early scholarship”. Do any of you have a problem with scholarship money?

I write on education most exclusively and know that the Wal-Mart Detroit isssue and in fact many of the issues I write about are not being reported.

I write each day so come back and visit and do be well

Danny