Public schools in this once great country are on the decline. We are steadily falling behind the rest of the world in the disciplines that will drive the professions of the future: sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But it's our deficiency in that last branch of the S.T.E.M. especially that is going to be our undoing: Math. And if I'm being perfectly honest, I think this is a case of deficiency by design.

I'm not one to buy into conspiracy theories – I don't wear tinfoil on my head or go out hunting for UFOs and Bigfoots anymore – but you know something? Look at some of the so-called conspiracy theories that have come true just in the last couple decades: the NSA has been reading our emails and listening to our phone calls for years; the moon landing was proved to be fake in February of 2001; chemtrails have been brainwashing us for who knows how long. These are just a few examples.

Given that all of these things are true, is it so strange to think that the schools are intentionally creating a deficiency in mathematics? I don't think so, especially when you are lucky enough to know what I know about their incredible incentives for doing so.

Let me break it down for those of you who are too slow to figure it out (we can't all be engineers):
Schools keep kids mathematically retarded.
Kids can't comprehend simple things like odds and probabilities.
Kids turn 18.
Kids play the lottery.
Kids lose the lottery.

And who sponsors the lottery? Why the department of education, conveniently enough. And who gets that money, who profits, as a direct result of those children being bad at math? The goddamn schools.

They are breeding mathematically challenged students on purpose to create an army of lottery ticket buying robots who fund their own creation.

I can't prove this, but I have it on good authority that our local high school is failing some seniors on purpose. That way they can keep them until they turn 18, at which point they are forced to take a class that is (conveniently) mandatory for students aged 18 or older. In other words: students who are old enough to buy lottery tickets!

The class is Statistics 401: "Why winning the lottery is really likely." For their final exam they take $100 worth of scratch-off tickets and try to turn it into $25 in under half an hour. The reports I've heard say that the students pay for their own tickets on a credit card and are given their "winnings" in cash ($1 bills no less, stripper style) to make the $25 they take home seem more substantial than the $100 they put on their credit card.

That money is going into the school's pocket, directly profiting off of the stupidity of their current and former students. It's time for a change in this broken system and it starts here where it counts: the exploitation of our youth. Or we could sit back and watch as the schools roll in their piles of money, lighting cigars with $5 scratch-off tickets, wiping their butts with $1 bills, playing ping pong with Powerballs. Yeah, let's go that route. It only costs us our future.