Expensive Education

You said in another blog "we need to take our kids back". Well how can we take them
back if the educational system won't let you. In some states there trying to outlaw
home schooling. because parents are not qualified to teach thier kids.
How can kids be successful in the classroom, when some of our kids are falling IN the
cracks...

Not going into to many financial details, but when its all is said & done My Parents will spend
1,030,000 dollars on 4 kids education. Expensive? Yes. Necessary? that up to us.
For me & 3 other sibling, being successful in the classroom is not necessary for our
parents, but for us. Fixing education in this case is to( throw money) at it. STOP taking
school funds away. Help keep kids in school. Start hiring good teachers & fire the Bad
teachers. And fine away the to keep college tuition cost down. I know, easer said then done

My sisters, financing this endeavor will only work if those that need a step up with regard to education apply themselves to what is truly important. We will be woefully lacking in the long run when it comes to an educational system that is most important to those that seek to control their future.

Being a public school system employee myself, I know that education is a slow-moving process, but it is no doubt the most powerful force we have. We need to learn this lesson again and again. And I like to add, this generation has lost interest in school, and nobody at home cares. I've been out of high school for 12 years (I graduated in 1999) however, when I was in school, I would see kids droppping out at 15, 16, or 17, but today you see children as young as 9 years old dropping out.

I flipped through the TV channel one evening and I discovered the movie "South Central" was on. The ten-year old boy in the movie when asked why he was not in school replied: "School is for fools. You can't make no money in school." What a shame. What a shame. What a damn shame.

I don't have any children yet, I have a niece I'm raising, but if I don't know nothing else about adults, you have had experiences in your lives that should give you the fortitude to make your children's and grandchildren's lives TWICE as better than the one you had. But what is wrong with today's parents? What's happening to the discipline? And what can we do to improve the value of education in the home?

I agree with Kenya, put more teachers in the classroom that really care about these students. Being a good teacher in my opinion goes beyond than someone who can quote from a book or tape. A good teacher has to be a philosopher and a counselor, a multitude of things. The parents have to do their part as well, get involved in PTA meetings and teach your children how to read something beyond a music magazine. My parents taught me and my younger brothers to read the newspaper when I was 3 years old, when I entered kindergarten I knew how to read words the average adult couldn't pronounce. And parents, don't just show up at your child's school only when it is report card time. Just showing up one day a week is sufficient.

WE can maybe begin to start realizing our children may be spending no quality time woth us as parients, guardines of theirs and maybe tis is the main short coming in their vital socializations? example,

Hours in school, with tv, phones, sleep ect. and not exersing, reading a good book, home work, learning to clean house, iorn, cook things needed as adults as well as learning to respect and love self and others encluding neighborhood, community and Mother eart...goplant a flower a tree, ask you eldy shut in if they need you to run an errand for them oh just stop by to say hello. ect.

YES WE CAN...(SMILE)