We Are Losing the Education Race!!!
Many countries such as China and India among many others are doing a much better job educating their children than are we with our budget disaster — even Cuba. Let the banks and corporations repay what they have stolen!!!
Thousands of our teachers are being fired. Classrooms are over jammed and even gyms are being used for several classes at once.
In the global economy that has replaced our military one, we are becoming the big time losers. Our life expectancy rates are a disgrace.
Greed is becoming an admired American value. And to hell with those who are suffering — who may be me next week with the loss of a job.
The U.S. is living back more than a century in its thinking — medicine, fair profits, public interests?
I, therefore, cringe when I hear that we are going to lose our teachers, too — old and young. What young college grad in his right mind would now chose teaching as a career. It used to be a favorite for those who cared about kids and others! No more.
Back to where I began, we are a fading nation — lost its way bogged down in ancient history somehow.
What do you think?
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“A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope.” (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
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Ed Kent [blind copies]
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackFor once I agree with Ed! Let the banks pay back what they stole. But the answer to our education mess is not more money. One can see that private schools put our much better graduates for fewer dollars.
We have let politics interfere in our schools such that the teacher spends too much time filling out government mandated paperwork.
We have let the parents become dictators, disallowing even the mildest of discipline in the classroom.
My wife, a teacher for 14 years, quit because she could no longer stand the chaos of the modern classroom. She was formally counseled for pulling a young boy off of a girl. He was hitting her and calling her vile names.
She was disciplined because the parents threatened a lawsuit for my wife touching the boy. Nothing happened to him. The little girl’s bruises healed.
So sorry to hear this. It does always come out this way, but too often so. Ed Kent
P.S. Many of my students from Brooklyn College left after a year of frustration.
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