Geo's Prescription?:

We have a captive audience in the schools. Youth ages 4-18 are required by law to attend public school. Grab them there, hold on tight and don't let go until you have Barack Obama.

I love the burgeoning Charter School movement because the curriculums can be tailored to suit our needs.

In most major cities the dropout rate for black youth is over 40 percent. If the schools were nurturing our children accordingly that number would be significantly lower. The current public school curriculum and the administering of it is not capturing the imagination of our children, it's not challenging them and it's not identifying and cultivating their individual talents. There's just not enough appeal there to reach our at-risk youth. Not to mention the fact that our children are on the bottom of the totem pole with regard to math and science especially as compared to South Asian schoolchildren, for instance.

Where in the Curriculum Bible does it say that a four year old cannot arrive at school Monday morning and eat a fruit salad from the student run organic produce garden on the school grounds, then scamper off to math class, 2nd Line over to music class, bolt to the driving range to hit balls for an hour, back to the garden for lunch, burn off that salad in art class and maybe end the day splitting atoms or something in science class.

We have got to take matters into our own hands. The system has failed us.

Once we hearken back to the pre-Brown vs. The Board of Education days and start molding Kings and Queens again things will start to fall back into place. Or at least I hope.