I Just Sued The School System Analysis

School. If you live in the United States, you have probably encountered going to school in any shape or form due to our laws of compulsory education. However, many argue that our education system is not as great as it should be. As America is one of the worlds most developed countries, yet we still constantly fall beyond is rankings of education. Why is this? Well, Prince Ea, a spoken word poet, uses his YouTube platform to address this. Posting a video titled, “I Just Sued the School System”, Ea provides a depth look at our education system. The video amusingly takes place in a court-room where Prince is standing before a jury, convicting our modern education system of various crimes. He believes that our current system is cookie-cutter: failing to recognize the individuality of students that would help them succeed. Mike Rose in “Blue Collar Brilliance” has similar point-of-views but focuses on the talent of those who might not be the best at school, but have many other talents. Prince Ea’s “I Just Sued the School System” furthers Mike Roses “Blue Collar Brilliance” argument by analyzing the fundamentals of our education system, revealing the problem behind …show more content…
As a society, when we define things such as intelligence in a cookie-cutter fashion, we are only hurting ourselves. When our school does this, we are only hurting our students into becoming one-size fit all members of society. As a culture, we should move away from these ideas into a more fluid education where we can teach students on an individual level rather than telling them to do things that might not be fit to their set of skills. In order for a more intellectually diverse society, our education system and the idea of intelligence needs to