The White House Becomes the Farm House

How to bring light to a subject, a touchy subject, which requires attention.  I feel like a teacher.  I feel like a teacher in an era where teachers are not supposed to have opinions.  The profession of teaching has been so degraded there is no visible model left to buck the status quo.  It has become all about being liked.  "Like us on Facebook."  "Like us on Twitter."  The longevity of society no longer has anything to do with being liked.  During the plantation South perhaps protocol was so authoritative it dictated one's behavior.  There were manners, and I grew up with manners.  Manners are a good thing, when the controlling faction of society is honest and good.  This would have been a time when teaching was in vogue.  The P.T.A. were honest and good.  Society respected teachers and vice versa.  There was a mutual respect, because teachers were entrusted with the responsibility of rearing children.  Parents may have been busy running the family business or household.  It was acceptable that children spent the majority of their time in public schools, which were well funded, efficient, and useful.  What changed?  From my viewpoint American society reneged on this obligation.  They implemented a power play for control and left schools and their teachers in the lurch.  Modern parents became the all knowing caucus, and they took control.  Teachers no longer were free to educate children, because if a teacher is not allowed to have an opinion, they are nothing more than a pawn in America's system.  That is what we all have become.  "Like us on Facebook."  Be part of our club.  Get along.  Don't make waves.  If you are one of the "In Crowd" things may be okay for you.  If you are an outsider then you get what we have now, a White House full of society but with no clue how to educate anyone.  It takes teachers.  It takes engineers.  It takes artists.  It takes an entire force of intellect to form a nation.  That intellect must at all costs question society and its intent.  Tough questions must be faced.  Difficult decisions must be made, and these queries must challenge the status quo.  America no longer is able to trust the status quo, because so many things have changed.  Because of status quo disease has escalated.  Cancer is on the rise.  Pollution is rampant.  The earth is warming.  Many of these ills have been created by accepting the status quo.  "We're making money, Jim.  Why change?  What's wrong with our coal-burning power plants?"  During fruitful times in American history teachers were a necessary catalyst in change.  They resisted the pressures of society and government and challenged students to think through issues concerning the longevity of American society.  They were able to stand up to bullying politicians, governors, mayors, and school boards, because a breadth of information was their tool.  Knowledge prevailed.  That no longer is true.  We now live in a time of lies, rhetoric, and spin.  Wealth provides this false comfort.  It has become foreign and uncomfortable to resist the status quo or the "In Crowd."  Luckily we have current models, and in due time have left the White House.  These members of Trump's administration have made the tough decision to part with what has been the accepted status quo in America, the White House.