ELF

What is the Education Liberation Front? Simple. We're an organization dedicated to education reform. I'm certain the world has enough of these already, but ELF is different. We're not interested in pumping higher test scores out of students. We're not concerned with how our stats compare to those in Europe or Asia. What we care about is actually improving the education system. Making it more efficient in accomplishing its purpose, which is not to produce high test scores but to teach students valuable skills that they can use later in life.

The current system is not very good at this. It teaches students exactly what they need to know, students learn it, pass the test, and immediately forget it all. While they will, likely, retain some slight knowledge of what they learned, it is not nearly worth the massive time investment. It is inefficient. It is repressive and dehumanizing. It is in heavy need of meaningful reform.

The objective of ELF is to bring about this reform. We intend to turn High School from what it is now, a series of obstacles on the way to a meaningful existence, into a meaningful existence in and of itself which will properly prepare students for the real world. A ruthless dictatorship does not prepare students for life in a democracy. Teenagers are capable of much more than people think they are. They respond to a dystopia the same way everyone else does, however, and have been convinced of their own incompetence and, in some cases, convinced of their own inhumanity. By toppling the dystopia that is the American public school system and setting up a better system, we believe that the teenagers of America will be given the chance to be meaningful members of society while still in High School.

For an exact list of everything we intend to resolve, see the next post, the list of grievances.

-Ashen