Failure to Educate
As you know (or will soon know), every conference is given a 30-second commercial during football games with a team from that conference. And if both teams are from the same conference, the conference gets two commercials...you get the idea, I'm sure. At any rate, as I watched the A&M - Missouri football game on Saturday, I was bombarded with the same Big XII comercial twice...and here it is:
"The Big Twelve is committed to education. That is why we're creating a special program to help Middle Schoolers and their parents prepare for college....." (bla bla bla)
This sounds great, right? But I'm confused... I thought the purpose of middle school (and school in general) was to get an education and prepare for the future. So if that's the purpose of school, why do we need all of these additional programs? It seems like a sad indicator of the overall failure of our educational system.