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What the heck!

  • Posted by: thereen
  • on January 30, 2008 at 1:21 am

While our children suffer from lack of education, the world around us even third world countries thirst for knowledge on becoming more educated. I have seen it first hand, and have spoken with children from various countries around the world and have found that the education level of 70% of our children is not the children’s fault but our own. As adults we have failed them by not instilling teachers with passion in our schools and allowing just anyone to come in teach what is in the book without understanding.

So much more to say about that, but I personally would like to see kids from elementary school all the way to high school wear uniforms to school. This would take the edge off of trying to look like a supermodels everyday and allow kids to concentrate on being kids and just enjoy each other without constant peer pressure on how you look. Uniforms would bring the respect back to the system and provide a much needed change in our society.

Thats all for now.

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