We hear how our school systems have gone woke and would instead teach children that they can be any gender they want to be. That all you have to do to be a different sex is to say that you are. English is now nothing but a bunch of incoherent gibberish, and math answers only have to be about right and not exact. And what has all of this wokeness brought us? The answer is simple: failure!
Back in the old days, Americans took pride in achieving things that others could only dream of. We invented the transistor, the laser, and optical disks. We landed men on the moon and brought them back alive. We did the impossible, and we did it every day.
Nowadays, we live with failure and seem to enjoy it. This is something that we didn’t accept 50 years ago. In fact, it has been proven once again that failure was not an option at one time in this country.
Recently, a spacecraft that was launched in 1977 and whose life expectancy was projected to be 5 years is still working 47 years later! Voyager 1 is self-repairing itself and, from 15 million miles away, is still providing information to our scientists, many of whom were not alive when it started its mission.
We should use this example as a blueprint for what we should be doing in our education system. We should return to how we taught our young people when failure was not an option. When perfection was not only expected but demanded. When the excuse was not, “Well, we don’t want to hurt little Johnnie’s feelings,” and instead expected, “Well, if little Johnnie doesn’t want to do the work, he can stay after school and get it done”. It is time to stop making excuses and instead strive for greatness.