March in the year of 2018, youth, all across America, created a visual that will go down in history for its total participation count: "March For Our Lives" rally.
The rally showed "art", visual art, of expressing humanity's frustrations and sorrows of gun safety: young people, using the strength of their voices to create independent verbal expressions of "why" we must improve safety in local-community schools or too often referred to as public schools--as if such places are considered a part of buildings owned by any state's government or owned by the federal government.
There have been a lot of school-building closures due to the decline of families having offsprings and, also, because of lack of state-government funding.
From viewing the Washington, D.C., rally on TV what I actually saw displayed, for the television audience, is lack of true knowledge by the participants. To the point, ignorance of not fully understanding that there should not have been marchers in Washington--unless marching to represent school districts in the District of Columbia. Perhaps, the marchers were suggesting that Congress should persuade governors and officials of our 50 states to take action in creating a law. Such type of law would require federal-government actions. Such a law would not be a state law but would be required to be created as a federal law.
Recently, Linda Brown (Brown vs. Board of Education) passed away. She and her father's actions (of civil-right freedoms) represented the visual art of what, nationally we needed, back in the day, so that true changes could be made in communities of America. Historically, her actions ( and all parties involved) allowed people of color to attend white-only public schools and white-only colleges. Such civil-right initiatives were needed because people of color had a desire to be equivalent in the thinking habits of the white populations.
However, I believe that such educational, civil-freedom approach should have continued within our states. States' actions should have progressed, productively, to give such right back to our federal government, to have allowed federal-oversight actions to remain. A unison action of states saying, legally, that it is okay for our federal government to create any and all public-school curriculums to be used by all students in all 50 states: same courses; same lessons; same safety procedures. Such an effort of teaching all of America's public-school students the same (no matter a person's race, creed, religion, or disabilities). Overall, I believe such productive actions would then allow a student from the North to learn the same basic skills as a student from the South. In so doing, we would have the same quality of school safety in all public schools. Do you understand?
As a former presidential candidate, I would like to personally express that social fairness is when children, that relocate to a new community, are not exposed to a harsh difference in learning actions. In my opinion, all school districts of a state should have the same mannerisms. Then maybe, we will, one day, give public-school education back to the federal government: oneness in learning, oneness in what needs to be achieved of basic skills and school-safety procedures.
Public schools are just like any other business within local communities. They are not a part of the government body. The only true activity, involving local or state government, is the requirements of its teachers. Each state decides what skills teachers should have. What it wants its teachers to know. How many years it requires its teachers to complete teacher studies or formal-college experiences. Whether teachers should even have a college degree or education certificate to teach. And if so, each of our states decides the specific name of study to be obtained in college-degree form. Our community schools are like incoming stores that rent or own commercial spaces in our neighborhoods. They either help in our neighborhoods or are abandoned.
The government doesn't decide who works in educational buildings--the local community does. Community citizens select their own educational leaders which in turn choose the staff of buildings: principals, teachers, teacher aides, custodians, and other constituents.
Lastly, even if our federal government was able to provide adequate funding to all public schools that dream of such action, it's sad, in realizing, that each state each school principal could actually choose whether or not to budget such money accordingly towards productive measures of obtaining school-safety supplies and staff. In regards to schools being a part of the government, we notice that more and more public schools are similar in having police or school-safety officers. Children--not government workers or adults--exposed to seeing cops on a regular basis through no fault of their own. Is that a good thing that should be ignored socially? Or, should we give back departments of education to our federal government?
Lastly, our government is a symbol. Our government works because of actions of local people. It is not a thing that is run by machines or computers. Our government is run by people. People that have their own unique feelings and attitudes. And some families believe that our governmental employees and officials exhibit a decline in traditional values and morals. Is this the way that it's going to be for now on in our local communities? Is this the realistic visual art, of our country, that is going to be presented, like an art poster, to our tomorrow's youth?