Education

I just get so frustrated when people don't read. Reading is essential to understanding the world that is around us. We must read in order to expolre many of the places that we would normally never go. Reading is fundamental to life. As of right now I am reading President Obama's book The Audcacity of Hope. I must say that it is a great book so far and would recommend it to anyone trying to get into politcs. My whole problem with reading stems from my students at summer camp who can cite Kanye West but have no idea who Andrew Jackson was. It straight pisses me off to know that the school system is failing these students. These students think that the founding fathers P. Diddy and Lil Wayne insted of Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. This is not the students fault though. This is the fault of our school system that we have in place. The curriculum in the schools doesn't do justice to our founding father. Every child should know Abraham Lincoln didn't care about freeing the slaves. He only cared about the north being in better economic standing then the south. The students need to know that Andrew Jackson was a gun slinging indian scalping illiterate whose claim to fame before being president and taking doing the federal bank was killing thousands of indians two weeks after the war was over. They need to know and understand what Nixon did was wrong and no matter who you are nobody is above the law including the president.Each student needs to know the bill of rights and understand them in order to fight the government if they impose on those rights. This is what schools need to teach and they need to start in elementary school rather than as an elective in high school. Becuase by then so much of our youth are losted by that point. It is very imperative that we change the way we run our schools. We need to get far away from notion of just harping on math, reading and science. We all know why this is happening. It happenening becuae america is full of show me people. We have to have the best and the only way we can be the best is by focusing soley on what matters to the world. we are taking the indvidual out schooing and are saying that all learn the same which is wrong. Because the governement wants to brag to other countries that we have the smartest mathematicians its your children that are paying the price. Its stupid if you ask me. What we need to do is make well rounded people who help the greater good of the nation. We need to stray from the banking concept of teaching. We need to start using the liberation method so that people can interpret the world the way they see and not the way the teacher os telling them to see it. The best understanding is when you can put it in your own terms. When one does that theyown that material. I want our children to own the material across all facets of life. i want our children to be scholars and want to succeed and with the current No Child Left Behind Act still in tact Every Child Will Be Left Behind.