Does our government and our educational system represent what "WE THE PEOPLE" want and need?

I am not sure what is happening with our society and government these days but, whatever it is; stupidity or the working of the devil or both it is not good for us or our children. When my son, Charles, who just turned 13 can sit and listen to the President speak and ask questions like, "How is he going to make that plan work when he doesn't have any money", or "How is that good for most of the people?". Or when the Governor cuts the State Employees pay and raises their health insurance premiums, "How are they going to pay their bills and pay for the insurance?" Shouldn't some of the adults who voted for these people who are passing these budgets and bills ask the same thing.

Why are the employees suffering? What is being done to recover the thousands of dollars wasted in the Wake County Recycling department, and the Wake County School System and The garage scheme. The have been a few cases of embezzelment too. What is being done to the Administrators and Auditors and Supervisors of these individuals that allowed these "Thefts" to occur and did nothing to report it or stop it? These problems were found by an outside audit. (Accountability and Truth always shine light on the activities done in the dark!)

Are you and informed and involved citizen? Do you think about the local happening and government activity?

Why does Wake County have so much more trouble with their budget and providing the services to their residence? They get more money because they have more residence. Surrounding counties have lots of room in their schools and they are able to provide services with the help of the community and parent involvement. Most parents will buy extra paper, paper towels, ect that are going to benefit their child's classrooms. Why not access the resources that are available to fill the short falls to maintain the quality. Why not work together as a Region? Wake Forest and Youngsville are literally a bounce away from each other yet in two different counties and each has a different school system that have to purchase and maintain buses, staff, textbooks, electronic devices, computers etc. Most of Franklin County is Traditional, meaning the schools are closed for the summer. Some have summer school programs but not all of them and could be utilized by Wake County for their Year-around tracking system. Vance County and Granville County are also stone throws from Franklin County and separate and not really equal, these counties are poorer and continuing to decline because of the jobs and companies leaving (THANKS NAFTA!!). Franklin, Vance and Granville could work together also and utilize the resources available in each community. Information and education of the community and businesses that reside in the counties is poor to nonexistent. Finding assistance and information becomes a daunting task and one most people do not have the time or energy to do and so most things can be found in Raleigh, everyone takes the business, money and support to Raleigh and the local economies suffer.

Why did we move away from Neighborhood or Community schools?
It is easier to service 800 children and utilize resources in small communities that it is to try to service thousands of children from vast geographical locations with no "community connection". Some one should address these wastes and the impact on the children. Someone should try to reduce these large Corporate entity school systems that are like vaccums on funding and producing little for the money. Drop out rates and successful students going onto college and professional jobs is not a bragging point for North Carolina. More of the college population is out-of-state students than they are local.

Is there anything we can do? There is some good news~
Life is all about choice and hopefully wise choices. In North Carolina we do have a choice of Homeschooling or sending our children to private schools but our funding still goes to the public school system (HMMMM! the school systems receive money and yet do not have to provide services or books for those students, yet they have short falls every year and every year the amount of Homeschoolers grows). Now if we choice a charter school (and are able to get in due to the limited number of spots) they receive money from the government. Shouldn't the funding for education be equal and those providing the services and achieving the marks receive the funding?

Someone has taken the initative and started fighting for a better way! Want to join them?
If you agree with this philosophy check of this website and join the group fighting for the "Parents Right to Choose Education" http://www.pefnc.org/category/categories/about-us Get involved in the fight to bring integrity, logic and ethics back into education. Research your local schools and your county government and see what is being done and where you can get involved to make our society and our government the institutions they use to be, and the ones we will be proud to be a part of again, When We the People is more than an "old saying" on a piece of paper in the museum downtown.

Digging in the closet....found wonderful memories and confirmation--AWESOME DAY!

Well, today was another highly productive day. I conquered my office/exercise room and the closet that I guard with my life. My treasures are safely packed in this space and NO ONE opens the door for fear of loosing a limb. IT IS MY SPACE! to do with as I see fit. Well I have seen alot and the shelves were bursting and I could not find anything. Pictures are in several different places, and it was just a mess. I pulled everything out and sorted through each box, bag, stack and binder. I sorted and collected, packed and labeled. I reduced my 4 shelves of mess to 3 loosely arranged and very functional spaces.

All my family tree and genealogy stuff is neatly organized in a small suitcase to permit transporting it easily. Scrapbooking stuff is also in a suitcase for portability ease. All our wedding cards are in our wedding book. Going throung the cards we received for our wedding was such a neat time. There was on that really made the day, it had one of my favorite verses on it, one that has become very significant in my life; Romans 8:28 it was awesome to find this and to see this verse was in my life for years before I ever "saw" it.

I weeded out alot of stuff I collected from high school. Read through cards I received for graduation and found a letter from a Great Aunt that has since past away, but it was so sweet and it is awesome to have a piece of her handwriting to add to my Family History book. I love collecting things people write because it is like having a small piece of them, the thoughts they had for a moment. So cool!.

Oh man, have you ever found a letter or lists you wrote years ago... hysterical!

Organizing all my pictures and photo albums was a blast too. I found a photo album that Charles (our son) made himself by going through our albums and pulling out pictures he liked. I was funny to see the pictures he had in there. He loves albums and memory books as much as I do. That was kind of cool to see him making his own books...ah. the legacy.

I cleaned out a bunch of stuff I was "trying" to do or hobbies I tried because other people were doing them and they seemed to like it, but I am slowly learning what I like and what things I REALLY want to do and things I Really enjoy doing, those are the only things that I kept in my little treasure closet. And, now I will have time and space to work on them and am anxious to get started on "My new hobby" :) Someone else will be blessed by the two boxes of stuff I will be donating tomorrow.

I am so happy to have all my treasured items organized and accessable again and to have my home efficient and clean.. probably my favorite part of finally feeling good and healthy..