People ask me all the time whether I'm a conservative or a democrat. My response? It doesn't matter, not right now at least. I don't pick candidates based on the party I'm affiliated with. Our economy is horrible, our education system is terrible, and we are listening to the stance of our futures leaders when it comes to Abortion? Abortion stances deserve 24/7 news coverage?
One thing I realized when I was watching the convention was that we hear so much about being leaders in the world for education but, Do our leaders put their children in the system in which they want us to believe?
We put our children in public schools and they put theirs in private. We hope for change but they have already found the solution. They go around the problem by putting their children in the schools that are so expensive it can pay teachers the same salary a college professor makes. This issue is neither democrat nor republican.
In the news last week, I heard about a law currently up for vote in Congress. Our politicians plan to take Physical Education out of the schools. They do not believe it has as much value as an extra hour in Math or Science. So, our politicians take P.E. out of public schools but it is heavily promoted within the private schools. While the bulk of our children live in neighborhoods that are not safe enough to play outside the others see no benifit in physical activity because video games are more fun. This seems to me like another way to widen the gap between the poor and the rich. Our children learn to be workers and their children learn to be innovators. Our children learn that physical activity and a healthy lifestyle is not as important as learning to WORK in fields such as physics or statistics. This in turn helps our children learn to be physical and financially dependent on the government. I know that this is a stretch but please find me one politician that has sent their children to public schools.
One thing I realized when I was watching the convention was that we hear so much about being leaders in the world for education but, Do our leaders put their children in the system in which they want us to believe?
We put our children in public schools and they put theirs in private. We hope for change but they have already found the solution. They go around the problem by putting their children in the schools that are so expensive it can pay teachers the same salary a college professor makes. This issue is neither democrat nor republican.
The children are our future and education should be a far higher priority than it is right now. Around a third of all Americans, roughly 100 million are currently overweight. Clearly our children need physical education, they need it bad. However we also need to jump start our schools and educate these children. There are seven days in a week; perhaps they should be in school six of those days rather than five; and maybe the summer break should only last two weeks, rather than more than two months.
ReplyDeleteWe've got real problems, problems that go beyond a woman's right to choose.....though that seems fairly basic to me.
Everyone doesn't need to go to college, we need masons, carpenters and electricians too. We need to get back to building shit, just like we used to. We've become a nation of creditors, rather than one of manufacturers. We can do better, we can do much better.
We spend more money on our military than the next 20 countries combined. Perhaps our focus and our dollars are in the wrong places?!?