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.
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