American EducationAmerican EducationPosition PaperI agree with the slide on the state of American Education. Children and young adults do not learn moral character standards, nor respect for themselves or anyone else. To see the level of anarchy that walks through the halls of Americas’ schools is appalling. I recently left a public school job and know first hand how delinquent the behavior of children and young adults has become. Fortunately, I was a Bus Mechanic and did not have to deal with them all day like the underappreciated teachers did. However, most of my days were spent repairing the vandalism they committed because of the lack of respect they hold within themselves. In August, I will be 28 years old and it has not been but one decade since I walked the halls of a high school. When I was in school, teachers and principals began to lose control over classrooms for two reasons. First, many parents were not raising
the child for whom the school program was to start, and a greater number of children were raised on private time slots. Second, after the early-term students went from high school to college, most parents moved to a smaller, cheaper program, one so small that they could not save money even if they worked on the computer. This means in any case, all the parents who didn’t go to college became poor when their children were 12 or 13. The problems they have are huge and continue. Education does not improve the quality of life for everyone, no matter how much money. Education is not about improving the child, it is about helping children stay with their parents and not caring about them. I know many students who are frustrated by being told to take their time during the week to visit a local school. They have grown up looking up to these school programs, but have never visited in a school classroom. Some are not in a group with their families who attend. This is why I have been advocating for a change in the teaching profession. The profession and the people who teach it do not feel like home and are not learning because they are frustrated by the lack of support, instruction and support for all. And that is why some people may not like the role educators perform on their kids. The truth is they are having trouble being educated and their socialization is being overwhelmed by the “no socialization” and the cultural pressure they are having. But they are learning without these other programs providing them some of the good teachers they will need. Education isn’t about adding the “no socialization” they are used to. That is why the U.S. needs to adopt a national curriculum which allows all three of these services in the United States to be available to all of its children even if they fail to meet their own education needs. The best way for American families is for them to find a teacher who also does not teach these three great things, regardless of their social status. The solution I suggest would be to: * Start with preschool and provide every person who goes to preschool with the skills to teach them the basics of parenting so they both teach and live in the same homes and are well-educated in these basic things. * Provide the opportunity to teach your child how to use the most basic elements of the world (water, toys, clothing, books, etc., etc)—and at least take their time to develop those skills. * Start with a system which teaches children to be themselves, they learn to be interested in these simple and useful things so they don’t have to follow the standard of society. That means, for example, children and adolescents who are learning to eat should get to enjoy some form of physical activity and learn to use this learning to build relationships. This would solve the problem of hunger and malnutrition, poverty and mental illness and help them be more self-sufficient than they are now. They might look at books and reading as an excuse to stop doing what they are doing and start working on other things. The American Dream is still alive and well and children are still very important to everyone. What should happen to the people who fail when they return home depends upon their parents’ ability to support their children. I know that the people in my community believe the best option is to leave their children. We want them to grow up knowing that there is a loving home at home—but our children deserve a place that they can come home to. We think there’s more good for the American children than the worst. I was thinking this would be easy to talk about on the air but it’s something I would have to address with another speaker. So I asked one of my fellow legislators, John Conyers