Marie T Buzzle hadn't really much to say about the city plans to renovate the park.
Being the prim and proper type, a once probable beauty queen, but her parents would not let her enter these contests. Scandalous her mother raged, 'I'll not 'ave you in those fleshpots.' Her dad silently agreed, but I don't want to get too deep into her personal files, although there are those quite upset about the four words she spoke at the end of the meeting. 'What about the children?'
Yes, what about the children. A lot of people talk about our responsibility to future children. Actually, let's just lay our cards on the table and say the naked honest truth, they talk the talk but don't walk the talk. Something is wrong here and has been wrong for quite a long time. Now is not the time to shout USA or say Mission Accomplished. Fact is our little patriotic snit will take a hit, if we ever stop popping pills and face reality. Our public school system is simply inferior and we just smile adding a Band Aid or two. INFERIOR!!! INFERIOR!!! Where's the fire and fury? Makes me angry. This isn't the America I want. To be a great nation we must give, not good, but great education. Getting a real discussion going with rules not to talk about costs, but the real needs of our country's academic, art, scientific and other vocational professions is a long long overdue must.
Back to Mrs. Buzzle and of course there is a Mr. Buzzle. Mr. Buzzle was asked by a reporter what he thought of his wife's four words. Mr. Buzzle seemed bewildered and said, 'My wife only spoke four words? The reporter nodded and Mr. Buzzle looked at the reporter and said, 'Young man I don't think your editor be likin' you telling a lie, would he. I know what you're saying is an impossibility because she talks non-stop at breakfast and the last thing I hear before I go to sleep is her voice.'
(I'm trying so hard to be politically correct).
Well the reporter printed the story about the four words, and with much deference, said Mr. Buzzle had claimed his wife had spoken at least four words. Well, here it is now nearing the end of January and all future meetings on this subject were deemed unnecessary. Nothing has happened. Nothing will. Eventually there will be more discussion, same topic and more talk until someone says these four words, 'What about the children?'
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They KNOW many teachers have huge classrooms and some kids in them don't even know English, or haven't had breakfast, or are mentally retarded from lead poisoning ....
(I don't know)
The problem is on both end of the spectrum; bright kids needs are not met by the current system any more than the kids who need extra help. And bright kids are more likely to drop out and use drugs- from sheer frustration. Isn't that a ridiculous situation?
Luckily, my daughter is doing well in school but she hates it. People don't seem to understand why a bright student would hate school; I know only too well.
Thanks for posting to my group, Anythingwriting
We don't seem to value education as much as we did at one time.
We leave too much to the tv and computers. It seems like no one
thinks anymore.
Have you received change lately?? No one can make change without
the cash register telling them what to give back. And they don't count
it then either!!
Thanks for you thoughts.
Donna C hit the nail on the head regarding receiving change, try going into a bank or a store when their computers are down.
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What about the Children? I've been asking this question long ago,,, and still no matter how we try,,,little is done,,, I worked with schools in the past and still try,,, things move very slowly,,,parents don't get involved enough,,,
We simply cannot afford the education system we have now if America wants to remain in the game globally. Sure there are private schools and maybe a few good schools here and there. Overall, they deserve a big F.
...and what Curt said:)
My last daughter was in 3rd grade 31 yrs ago. I decided to go up and sit through a day of school. The bell rang for class to begin that morning. The teacher was relaxed and chatting with some of the kids while the other talked & some wandered around the room. I kept waiting for class to start. I finally realized it had. This was it.
I took her out and put her in a private school.
Political correctness . . . Don't offend the children. Don't make them feel bad for getting low grades. Allow a lack of respect and self control and call it self expression.
Our teachers are restrained by foolish laws and part of them poorly trained and poorly led by authorities in the school. I'm sure the good teachers would go to private schools but the pay is lower.
Coddle the bad kids and coddle the criminals and coddle the poor that are poor because they are irrisponsible and don't work and coddle the greedy that bought houses they couldn't afford and filled them with furniture they couldn't afford.
That is why we are developing into a demanding, gimme, gimme, irrisponsible nation that is in debt up to their ears. Real love doesn't coddle. It pushes to the healthy limits of ability.
Most of my family home schools. (And, I might add, none are in debt except for their homes.)
This year they are working on rounding off in subtraction. If you have 489-18, they want you to round off the 489 to 500, then round off the 18 to 20 as that would make it easier to subtract and you get the "approximate" answer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG, that just drives me crazy! No wonder kids can't do math any more.
John I do feel strongly about the situation. I don't know how to make changes. That's why my adult children maily home school.
What are your thoughts?
Such as parents that spread their bad attitude to their children. Teachers do the best they can. They have always had to improvise. I'm just saying that political correctness has added restrictions on teachers that are harmful to the children and the teachers ability to teach. I'm not indicating that the school has no legitimate problems. My older grandchildren went to poor Christian schools that had to scrape to get by. But they still disciplined the children and taught them well.