What is wrong with education? I mean, aren't all teachers trying to do their best, despite their pay, their colleagues, the system, the students, the parents, and everyone included? What could make education such a hot-button topic leading into the 2016 Presidential Election this year? Why isn't the environment the focal point that it should be? To be brutally honest, low teacher salaries, large class sizes, and budget cuts are only the beginning of the should-be-scrapped system of money-making prowess that has been the focus of this country for as long as could be remembered.
What can be done to alter the course of history, change the world, and educate everyone in the most effective and supportive environment possible? It takes more than just the educational systems of hard-working teachers everywhere. It takes looking in the mirror, accepting the facts of today, and understanding the origin of where the problems have stemmed. Do you remember that important teaching character and values Bill that was rejected more than 30 years ago? Probably not, but being relegated to teaching limited history, books people don't want to read, and putting numbers on people IS feeding people failure.
People are sensitive as they grow up into people. These young people are searching, hoping, and dreaming for respect, care, value, and confirmation. When people don't receive compassion and understanding, their emotional selves will begin to take hold whether they are in control or not. People are not to be coddled, given short-cuts, and definitely not given up on! Yes, we must all be selfish once in a while and include ourselves in learning, but only as supportive guides to the keys to the unknowns of life's greatest mysteries.
We as people, as students, as teachers, as individuals, must learn, not only from mistakes, but from ourselves as well as other people. We must learn about appreciating what we have from what we are given and to be honest, open, sincere, and respectable to all as not only a right, but to be truly appreciative of one another no matter our differences and our decisions under our greatest intelligence. Not only do people not have respect, but they are not open to learning the knowledge that needs to be passed onto future generations: the knowledge that life is worth living no matter how difficult, how insurmountable, and no matter if things work out as planned or not. For they will have already been prepared to see the world in the way it needs to be seen: valued and appreciated.
