American Nightmare in schools

I was going to reply a post called Nightmare in Class by shark, but I changed my mind. Here is my essay about the issues shark mentions.

I was going to ask about a negative student of mine and how to deal with the problem. Compared to the issues shark mentions, my negative student would be by far the most polite and respectful student in schools shark writes about.

Yes, this political correctness in the US - I am from the Czech Republic but have met a lot of Americans and for some reasons love the country, I found some very valuable experience there 13 years ago. I actually feel half American, for many deeply emotional, personal reasons. I learned a lot about feminism - I am serious, I dated American women who were strongly influenced by feminism or even declared themselves feminists. I was interested in the movement and learned a lot about it and now I have a lot of respect for the philosophy of the movement. At the same time, there is something incredibly stupid about the whole political correct attitude going in the US. And everyone can sue anyone just because they stepped on a piece of dogshit. This suing craze is getting out of control, it seems. We, in the Czech Republic have very little problems compared to American schools because common sense still rules here. There is not so much hypocrisy here.

Although I respect Christianity, although I am not a Christian, I don't think the problem lies in teaching religion in schools in the US. During communist years, the regime was not liberal at all and the schools had the same conservative character they had during the democratic years before the WW2. The atmosphere in schools didn't change. The conservative atmosphere in Czech schools stems from the Austrian Monarchy culture that was based on Catholic values. But these values themselves had very little impact on students. The strong, conservative personalities of teachers do have impact. I think the lack of respect among students in the US is caused - as you state - by the feeling of the students that the society is in the mess. The values that America sticks to so hysterically don't make much sense to young people. How can the unruly teenagers respect adults who live in that hypocrisy and that ridiculous, yet politically correct world? Americans, as much as I know, are among the best, the most hard working people in the world. That is nice. But their motives are questionable. Make more money, buy another car, another house, etc. Quite one sided, materialistic attitude. But these materialistic people go to church on Sunday. Hypocrisy. There is nothing wrong with being rich. But there is something very wrong with what is going on in the minds of both rich and poor Americans. Their minds are messed up. True wisdom is needed. That's all there is to it. If there is true wisdom in the Bible, someone should find it and use it. If there are no role models, no real adult Americans that deserve respect, then who is going to teach young Americans? America needs true, sincere people. The whole world needs them. And America, as I know, has such people. The problem is that they are severely ignored.

I think Americans should start a new movement. Fight against hypocrisy. Do not discriminate people who deserve to be treated wisely. These days, there is almost no racism, no sexism in public in the US. But there is huge stupidity. Americans don't discriminate minorities any more, but they discriminate themselves. They discriminate people as such. Now, Americans, no matter how nicely they call themselves, African Americans, white, Jews, Muslims, Latinos, they should peak behind the silly labels they take so seriously and find what is really true about a human being. Miles Davis - a controversial figure or not - said something very, very wise and America should listen. He said: "I am not African. I am black. I have been to Africa. They are different. The culture is different, the children are born and soon they dance to extremely complicated rhythms. Different."

What Miles Davis said is basically this: F**k political correctness. Become real!