What's wrong with communism?

This country is far from being a communist one and if it were a communist nation it would be all the better for it.

If we did have a communist school system, we would be able to provide equal education to all of America’s students. As things stand, there is a huge gap between schools from one district to the next. Test results and graduation rates highlight the disparity between regions. Our students are failing because we are failing them.

In the schools we do not teach sharing and fair play. We teach that you have to be the best. We teach that people are out to judge you, to grade you on a sliding scale, label you with numbers and letters that amount to your worth as a human being.

If this were a communist country, some students would not have to scrimp and save to pay the huge debts they rack up trying to put themselves through school. If this were a communist country, the job market would treat all degree earners equally. There would be no expectation that a graduate of Harvard was any better than a student of H.C.C.

If this were a truly socialized, equal society the ditch diggers and bean pickers would earn money equal to the doctors and lawyers. Society would be a utopia of equal pay for equal work.

People tote the values of a capitalist society. They say that competition leads to invention and the achievement of peoples fullest potential.

This, however, comes with a price. Competition can lead to divisiveness, invention is largely to blame for destroying our environment and so often people may find that they have reached society’s idea of what their fullest potential should be only to find they are morally bankrupt, much like the writer of that dreadful column