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Some people want to raise the age of majority when a kid can legally drop out of school. The age is not 15 and 16, depending on the state. If the age is raised to the legal majority for other things, then it will cost an extra 54 million. Would we rather spend the money on maintaining that young person in an education environment or in the prison environment? How much do we pay per prisoner for maintainance? Then we provide them with a college degree at our expense, but it cost me an arm and a let to get my education. My parents "made too much money" for me to get help so my mother sent me to school on a veterin's pention and social security; and I had two siblings at home. Americans gag at a gnat and swallow a camel. Why don't we fix the educational system and stop playing with paper dolls? It is amazing how we can go to the moon, go to Iraq, to fix them, wander around in Afganistan and pay footsie with Iran and not fix our own educational system. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. ASK SOME TEACHERS WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE and ask some retired ones who had a sussessful career. Making us look good on paper or trying some idea a Doctorate canidate wrote is not the answer. That is how we got in this mess in the first place. What happened to the educational system that all of the foreign countries wanted to copy? Japan and Korea did not go to England for answers. So now we let some idiot who wasn't successful in the classroom tell the ones who are successful in the classroom what to do. Wow!
Posted By: Thomasena Martin-Johnson
Thursday, April 5th 2012 at 9:31PM
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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...
Wednesday, April 11th 2012 at 4:17AM
Kenya Stevenson
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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
Saturday, April 14th 2012 at 2:10PM
Kenya Stevenson
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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.
Saturday, April 14th 2012 at 6:40PM
Siebra Muhammad
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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)
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
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