Let's get back to education

Dear Mr. President:
What do you make of the work of an author like Herbert Kohl or Jonathan Kozol, people who reveal, through a lifetime of dedicated work, the effects that sub-par education have on the children of districts that have routinely been underfunded? Why is it that some of America's major cities, powerhouses of commerce like New York and Chicago, seem bent on returning to segregation in the schools, and why is it that we as a nation allow the curriculum and conditions of these schools to vastly differ from those of the more fortunate, when children have no say so in the matter. This curriculum is designed to embrace the goals of a perspective that dehumanizes the poor, inner city, often minority child, but also completely misrepresents him to the point of disenfranchisement if he's not to overcome all odds and rise to the occasion (when mere survival would likely be the goal of most adults under the same situations). Why is it that children tarry with scripted education under the guise of equal opportunity- a teaching system that has no time for the arts or music or even recess, all seen as waste of time in the pursuit of higher scores on tests with systematic bias built in? And one more why question to remain unanswered, Mr. President- is why is are these blatantly immoral and potentially illegal agendas and work-programmed based "educational" schemas allowed to flourish in these schools, continuing to disappoint on all levels of measured success and your response to the situation that obviously isn't working is to merely allow states to abandon NCLB on the grounds that they adhere to another systematic, losing system. In closing, a what question. What would we allow our children if truly equal opportunity were a priority, an allocation of funds and resources that is fair and equal across all lines, equipping teachers with the freedom to create and inspire a fresh and individualized, honest  lesson plan with a vision that respects the ideal that our nation's children, unique in their abilities and gifts, are our future- or, as Kohl puts it, "a vision of what it (society) might become if it's democratic ideals are taken seriously" (p.126).