My two cents:
I keep hearing about the edge that students in other countries are gaining over
our children in math and science, etc. I keep hearing about our drop out rate. In
my neck of the woods we have some excellent students whose parents are behind them
and are teaching them the value of education. Teaching them it's a ticket to
success.
I am thrilled to see our President recognizing the need for leadership around the
value and importance of education. It's the essential piece for success for all of
our kids. If he wants to join the team and lead these kids to value school then I
am grateful to him for seeing the need.
I don't see this as political. I see it as recognizing a huge problem and taking
action. I hope he inspires some of them to invest in themselves and their futures.
Happy Friday to all,
Barb
Barb Langridge
Children's Services
Howard County Central Library
10375 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, MD 21045
410 313-7880
barb.langridge@hclibrary.org
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Original Message:
From: Bob Hicks <bob.hicks@USD470.COM>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Cc:
Date: Friday, September 4 2009 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: OBAMA'S SPEECH
LM_NET,
I APOLOGIZE! I thought I had found the actual text to NEXT Tuesday
speech. However, after further investigating the resource which I
should have done in the first place before I posted, I've discovered
it was an earlier speech on public education.
Nevertheless, since our public educational system control remains
largely locale instead of national although perhaps it should be more
national thus uniform, I'm not sure the authority of the office of the
presidency should be utilized regardless what he says. Can the office
really be objective and/or politically neutral? Also, remember,
because of compulsory education--students are a captive audience
without a choice of content.
Robert Hicks, Librarian
Arkansas City High School
Arkansas City, KS
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