Educational Opportunities
As I was driving home from dropping Kiki at school I was musing on the United States educational system. Many people feel that it is failing. I don’t and I just realized why. Most people percieve that it is the duty of public schools to give kids an education. Re-read that sentence, then focus on the word “give”. Education can never be given. Education is always earned. The opportunity to educate CAN be given and IS given every day at every level of our public school system. I’m in my kids’ public school twice a week. Every time I am there I see marvelous people working as hard as they can to provide for the needs of the kids in that school. I see all kinds of extra help being offered to kids whose parents don’t seem to care. I’ve seen kids who are convinced that their poor grades are punishments handed out by a teacher who doesn’t like them rather than just rewards for lack of effort.
All over the world there are millions of parents who would literally die to get their kids into our public school system. We need to be taking advantage of our opportunities and counting our blessings not complaining because we don’t think we have been given enough.