Commissars' rule America Education

One size fits all. That's the way the commissars ruled the Soviet Union for nearly 80 years. Even though the Soviet people toppled the commissars, commissariat rule is alive and well - at every level of the U.S. educational establishment.

We are educating our kids the way Soviet commissars raised potatoes. When the harvest didn't come in according to plan, the commissars assembled the best minds in the country, who would come up with "reforms" and new "performance targets." This was followed by big P.R. campaigns admonishing farmers to work harder. But farmers were not at the planning table. The system of collective farms was never changed. Innovation was verboten. It was a futile attempt to make an unworkable system work.

Does this sound familiar? America's education system is not producing