Actions Speak Louder Than Words!

Everyone knows and understands that the system of education must change before our children will be properly educated. Why has it taken so long for so many knowledgeable and capable groups to come together and affect that change?

Why are parents waiting for legislation that gives them the power that they already have in order to come to the aid of their children who are failing in a system designed to fail them?

This situation is no longer the fault of the School Board or educational leaders. This community is not standing up for its children but allowing rhetoric and irresponsibility to stand in the way of real action.

We fought for the right to vote our School Board into office and with the exception of Mary Adams, Board members were re-elected. This was not done with the expectation for change.

Outside extremist have done more to further the cause and bring adults to justice in the Jada Williams case than the activist groups have right here in her own community. There were no marches on Central Office, no call for action, no petition to the State Education Department, no call tree to State Ed Commissioner John King, no 310 Appeal filed.

This community complains that the Board of Education makes decisions irrespective of its views or voice when in fact the Board makes its own decisions because the community refuses to stand together, support one another, and, in one accord, make their voice heard.

We have proven that actions speak louder than words. Those times when solidarity has awakened the Board to our cry we have been acknowledged. However, instead of pushing forward, we back off and then have to spend time regrouping for the next united effort. This is counterproductive to the cause of real systemic change and it is exhausting.

The Board of Education is not the problem here. The lack of commitment to action is the brick wall that stands in the way of our progress. Our children are dying while we discuss our next move. We must ACT NOW!

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Reality Check

There is a great deal of controversy over the issue of poverty in education.

Once again, public school was created to educate the children of the poor in order to level the playing field between the classes in America. It is however, important to recognize that poverty plays an extremely important role in the mis-education of children. That poverty is not financial, it is spiritual.

Intelligent activists who recall their impoverished past to prove the point that poverty plays an important role in education seem to not realize that they are a testament to the fact that financial poverty is not the issue. In fact, the opposite is true. Our financially impoverished parents impressed upon us the importance of getting a good education, which would give us the ability to rise up from the poverty in which they were entrenched. Education wasn’t something that was given, it was a necessity that was earned.

Spiritual poverty, the lack of belief in ones ability to achieve, is the poverty destroying our children. We have given our children so many fish that they no longer appreciate the gift or the fish. They do not understand the difficulty and complexity of obtaining the fish they reject daily because new fish will be provided for them without putting forth any effort.

Learning is hard work, life as an adult is even harder, yet we have made education so fun and easy that it is worthless, making our children feel worthless, creating feelings in adults that they are worth less than those who are “rich”.

Yes, the playing field must be level in order for every child to have the opportunity for success. However, keeping the field level takes hard work and that work must be done by the students in order for them to appreciate the game. We must stop feeling sorry for children of poverty and start educating them.

Intelligence is the reward of education, a diploma in an award. Somehow we’ve confused the two. The reality is, you appreciate what you work hard to l-earn.

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