Retribution, neglect deprive children of hope

What are we offering our children today? Schools that resemble prisons more than places of learning, overcrowded schedules of activities that leave them little time to create on their own, and endless days of boring repetition and rote memorization with few activities that stimulate their creativity, wasted lives in blasted out inner cities, and impoverished rural towns with no resources or outlets, providing no hope for viable futures or else lives of rampant materialism and indulgence.