Education

Something I personally have experience being the son of a Woman who worked for a particular School District for alot of years as a Special Education Teacher's Aide. I won't mention the School District as it is the same one that the Discourser is employeed by and it's also the same city that the Discourser's Site is located in. Certain things don't need to be shared for one to get one's point across. Our Country as a whole is way behind good portions of the World in education. Our Teachers and Principal's do not get paid well enough for the job that they are expected to do unless they are employeed by a Private institution. The Professor is a good example as he is employeed by Catholic Private School so for a child to attend the Site where he teaches, the parents have to pay a fee. He get's paid out of this fee. Not the Discourser. His site is a public school and therefore subject to the whims of those that hold the pursestrings in the State and Federal Governments. The Government has always put Education last when figuring out where money goes. This causes our Schools to suffer immensely. It's sad really, because you'd think they would realize that poorly educated children grow up to be poorly educated adults and therefore if some of them were to get elected to a Political Office someday, they'd make poorly educated decisions.....decisions that will affect the retirement funds of all these narrow minded Politicians not doing enough for schools. Idiots. There is a well known correlation between crime and education. If no one cares enough to make school interesting then the kid doesn't care enough to try. If the Parents don't encourage the child to try, then the kid slacks off and gets crappy grades, get's in trouble, then drops out. A High School Drop Out without a GED is someone without a future. Okay, that future may involve the following statement "Would you like to Supersize that?" but that's about it. Kids who are raised with absent parents, ie parents who just don't give a crap, tend to not be enthused about school and therefore end up in Gangs and committing crimes. Hey when you pretty much see that your only future is working crappy jobs for the rest of your life, you tend to try anything that will make it not so. There are some excellent teachers out there. My Step-Daughter Liv thinks her Science teacher is awesome......he's a young guy who is really excited about teaching...Thank God for that. Alot of people get tired of what they consider "crappy" schools and decide to Home School their kids. I think this is a bad idea. It takes jobs away from qualified Teachers and it denies your children the social skills they will need to develop in tomorrow's workplace. My Grandson is in a First Steps program. Something he is really benefitting from. He is learning to make friends, to have structure a schedule if you will, he's learning to write and spell and count. He's learing to socialize with other children his age. Like I mentioned above, he's made one new friend so far. That's great. Home School should be a supplement to a structured public or private education. It's great when parents want to know what their children are doing, it really helps out the teachers. Too many parents are "too busy" to get involved and it's really sad. Here's hoping someone wakes up and helps out the Teachers. They are, after all, shaping our future leaders.