Our children are our future.That’s a fact. They will grow up, hopefully, and run this country someday. And how do we treat these future leaders of our land? Abysmally, that’s how.
We feed them processed garbage for school breakfast and lunch, allow vending machines full of sugar drinks and items no child should be using as a regular diet in schools, allow them to dress inappropriately for school where there should be dress codes, plus those that are continally disrespectful to teachers and other authority figures are not held accountable, and so on
The most recent wrong done to them is the removal of crossing guards in Volusia County from elementary schools.
How can saving a few pennies be worth the life of a child, who is killed trying to cross a busy road without the guard to stop and control traffic?
It makes no sense to me. The old days of Mom or Dad walking the child to school just don’t exist anymore. Most of them work and simply cannot do that. Parents relied on the crossing guards to keep their little ones safe, now what are they supposed to do?
I really think if I had children today I would home school them somehow. The education system is so wrapped up in numbers from tests that the curriculum is sadly lacking.
The children of today aren’t taught half of what I was taught. They can’t read or write properly, don’t know the history of their own country and can’t find other countries on a map. They can’t make change without the computer, well, you know what I mean.
Our first duty should be to our kids; not our wallets. In my opinion the education requirements should be the same for every state. When I moved here in my senior year of high school from Connecticut, I had taken all the courses they had. I was due for Spanish 3 but it wasn’t taught here then. I was also due for Latin 3 but they only had Latin 1 and 2. I ended up in Speech, Chorus, an English class I had already taken and other classes I don’t even remember now since that was in 1963.
I couldn’t graduate with the credits I had so had no choice but to actually waste a year of school in frippery just to accrue the credits to get a diploma. From what I see of family children in Connecticut now and friends children here there is still that gap in education today.
You should be taught the same things if you live in Montana , California , Illinois , the Northeast, or Florida. If a child has to move they should be able to continue in the new school right where they left off in the old one.
But I digress. Parents, be a squeaky wheel and get those crossing guards back. We simply cannot condone the loss of the crossing guards. Stand up and be counted for your kids, for our future.
