Free-write- If Ruby Payne does it, so can I: A Mike Warner hypothesis with little empirical evidence

So, I was watching Iron Chef the other day when my roommates were discussing how hopeless the educational system is in Mississippi and the chance for reprieve for the system as a whole was infinitesimal if only the current, half-measures were employed to remedy it. While one of my roommates was suggesting sterilization may be the only viable solution to break the cycle, synapses in my brain fired randomly and coalesced into an idea fusing Iron Chef and the problems facing the educational system of impoverished students in America. The idea, from kindergarten through 8th grade, send students to a school in which they remain in a regimented, disciplined, learning intensive environment for 2 week stints, visiting their parents only every other weekend. This system is employed in Japan, where learning and advancing national goals is prized above all else. Some even more drastic models for education are employed in Japan, and they outstrip our performance in educational assessments regularly. I feel this is the only way to break the current cycle in impoverished households, as currently the parents of most students lack the education themselves to provide the structure and support necessary for success. The African-American community, which this is largely targeted at, could provide at least the management aspect of this system, as I believe a military background would work exceedingly well in establishing the structure necessary for learning to take place. The teachers may have to come from a broader demographic, just as Mississippi Teacher Corps does, but I think it should. I know some feel each community should handle there own problems, but we need to fix internal national problems as a whole people, so all of our citizens can participate and guide the path of our nation.
    So, is this a feasible solution, and by this do I mean, could you sell it. I think it would almost certainly give a larger percentage of kids the chance to succeed in the society which they've been born into. But, selling it is the hard point, just like selling the fact that learning math and biology is important to kids I teach. The United States would have to provide room and board, I believe in K-8 to be effective for all those students who are near or below the poverty line. However, in this model, you would also be spared paying room and board for a large percentage of those students for the 20-60 years of incarceration they would face as an uneducated, apathetic, I just don't give a fuck member of a disenfranchised group. But here in lies the problem, the inability for most people to see the long term advantages of actions now, or the long term consequences. I took a biology class in college, in which I watched a documentary on global warming and other modern issues facing society today, and it said the biggest problem facing the common person, and therefore society as a whole, is the inability to comprehend the exponential function. I kind of bought into it then, I wholly do now. Our students don't see how effort now which has seemingly little return can have enormous return potential in the future. Similarly, legislatures fail to see the how spending more money now could save them such a tremendous amount in the future. And it comes down to this, Republicans are idiots. And Republicans run America right now, because America as a whole is uneducated and fear-prone. God, I hate people who are afraid of irrational things. I hate people who can't understand systems and look for short-term benefits. Well, at least I hate those people making decisions which will impact millions of people for generations. But, I may be digressing. Whatever, its my free-write.
      Do I ever expect this system to be implemented in America, ha, no. Too many rich white people make too much money from incarcerating poor black, hispanic and white people. I am not saying anything earth shattering, but it is still frustrating. Hence why I instead take the Parks approach and just try to throw as many starfish back into the ocean as possible. I am going to try to pick one from each class this year and aide them in achieving their aspirations  if possible. Succumbing to existentialism has always been difficult for me, but at least for now I am a fledgling without the power to accomplish any sweeping changes. I don't know if any one person has the power to overcome such a ridiculous dichotomy between achievement, actually I'm sure they don't, and without a nation caring that part of it has cancer, eventually it will metastasize, and I will be in Ireland. Too rah loo rah loo rah.