Redefining Education

Events in my life have brought me to the point where continuing to write this column is no longer possible. Thank you for everything, and may your lives be sweet.

The world is a very complicated place. It changes rapidly and with very little apparent sense or purpose. Our children have to make their way through the maze of tomorrow. Maybe, with their insight, we can help them to make the world a better place.

We have to care enough about our children to find a better way to help them through the maze of adolescence. If we are going to include sex education in our schools, we have to do a much better job of it.

Incorporating languages in our school system is an important step to achieving the understanding we need to be effective citizens of the world. Our children will be better people for it, and so will we.

One of the challenges that our schools face is to teach our children about the world in a way that will help them feel at home in it. Our geography teachers must share that wonder and knowledge with our children in a way that will illuminate their lives and help to ...

If we let teachers do what they are trained and licensed to do, we might get the educational system we want. It’s a novel idea, and it just might work!!!

Volunteers, especially parents, can improve the school environment. These are our children, and we need to be there for them. Letting the schools raise our children is not a good idea.

Every one has an interest in a successful public school sytem. All of us need to work together to solve the problem of public education. Until we do, nothing will be right.

The main concern of a School Board should be to work as a liaison between students, teachers, parents, and the community in an effort to provide the best educational experience possible. If the school board is locked in battle with the citizens it serves, it can not possibly hope to accomplish ...

We have to change our world before our children can succeed. It is far less expensive, in both human and financial terms, to put our effort and resources into giving children the tools they need to succeed rather than trying to fix their lives after they are broken.