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It is time to give it a rest! I know that celebrity news is a staple of American life; however, after we are force fed a diet of it from every news program on TV for weeks on end, who cares? I don't want to know that Tiger's inner circle covered up his affairs or that Jesse James is going into rehab.
Every single person has problems with a relationship in their lives. Our husbands cheat, our wives cheat, our kids get into trouble. It is a normal part of life. Nobody gives a crap about the average person and their relationship issues. It doesn't make news when your neighbor loses a job or goes hungry for a night.
There are more newsworthy stories out there boys and girls. There are fugitives everywhere, there are crimes that need to be solved, there are ...well, I could go on and on. Find some real news to talk about or give us a few public service statements. Do a segment on how to resolve bullying before it causes someone to commit suicide. Tell us how to save money on our grocery bills. The possibility for stories are endless and don't include celebrity sex and stupidity.
Give them a rest. Let them suffer privately for once in their lives. And let us rejoice in the fact that the news would be free of the idiocy that goes on in daily life and has NOTHING to do with us!
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This story both sickened and enraged me. It is an unacceptable situation that should be reviewed, discussed and dealt with strongly, passionately and quickly. It should never have come to an end where the only way out was suicide. Parents, teachers and fellow students stepped in to try and help Phoebe Prince. The administration failed her, failed her parents, and failed not only a community but the entire world at large.
And yet, not one administrator faces criminal charges. They effectively ruined not only the life of Phoebe Prince, but the life of those 9 other children who should have known better but didn't. These administrators will go on with their lives, their own families, their jobs while life has stopped for Phoebe. Phoebe's family will suffer with the knowledge that their efforts could not save her, because the support system that is supposed to be available in the public education system is sorely lacking.
Where do we go from here? Where is President Obama who preaches that every child is responsible for their own education? Where are the plans to create ongoing mandatory training for teachers, administrators and students to deal with and stop the bullying that goes on in every school across this country? We send aid to other countries whenever there is a serious situation that requires it, but yet we cannot stop to help our own people.
It is not only the responsibility of the public educational system to provide a safe, comfortable learning environment for our children. It is our responsibility as parents, as citizens of this country to demand our rights be protected and upheld.
What can you do? It only takes one person to start change. There are millions of parents in the United States. If even 10% of them demanded a change to the system, it would snowball into a country wide change of the ways things are done.
Meet with your PTA, PTO, PTSA or whatever parent organization is at your child's school. Demand that they use some of those funds you raise every year for them to devote to training the people who are educating our children.
Write your Governor & State Representatives to demand a bill that will make this type of training mandatory in every school, public or private across the United States.
Write to the President of this country and demand that he fight as hard for our children and an end to the ignorance of our school administrators as he did for the Health Reform Bill.
Hold your school accountable. Do not make one phone call and expect the world to be made right. Follow up, follow through. Demand that you be kept updated on the situation. Talk to your child's teachers as well as the administrators. Every teacher and school administrator now has email. If you can't call, email them. Make sure that your child is getting the attention that he or she needs to not only survive school, but to excel and to put any type of bullying behind them permanently.
To sum it all up - GET INVOLVED IN YOUR CHILD'S LIFE. The only person who can make sure things are made right for our youth is us.
Okay, so I refrained from posting my thoughts when this story first came out. 93 teachers, administrators and staff fired at a Central Falls school. It should have been a flaming, red letter post from me. Especially when you all know how I feel about the public education system in general. I held my tongue, because it is tough to realize that 93 people might be suffering from a lack of income at the end of this school year.
I am far from an Obama supporter. In fact, I disagree with almost everything he does or says. In this case though, I applaud not only this school but President Obama for supporting their efforts. It is high time that someone took a stand. Our children are our future, and it is NOT only the parents responsibility to ensure that they are successful. Our kids spend many forced hours each week with a teacher who volunteered for the responsibility of educating them. They get paid fairly well (yes, I know there are those of you who will tell me they don't) to do the job they wanted to do. And yet, clearly, they are not doing their jobs. There are 10 horrible teachers for every great teacher out there.
This story proves that this school made the right decision. It was a poor "joke" to hang a doll that represented the likeness of our President in a classroom full of impressionable kids. It is not Obama's fault that an entire school is performing poorly. 99% of the blame falls squarely in the laps of the teachers who went to work at this school on a daily basis and did not do their jobs.
I know we can argue that perhaps they were not given the tools to do their jobs. However, there are many disadvantaged schools in this country. They are filled with awesome teachers who work with what they have to educate our kids. Yes, they still ask for the appropriate tools & supplies. But instead of waiting for this to happen, they take what they have, they educate our kids and they do the job they are paid to do.
Central Falls is giving these teachers the chance to apply for and get their jobs back. How about you all start doing your jobs and show that you deserve to be rehired instead of standing around the teachers lounge crying about the unfairness of life? Obama, the kids, the parents and the administration of this school are not at the root of your problems. You are. It is time to accept that fact that you are responsible for your own fate.
Teacher Faces Discipline Over Obama Effigy
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