So what is real?

Well might you ask! It seems patently evident that our politicans and the educational community could use a little coaching on exactly what is real! To paraphrase a comment once made by Douglas MacArthur, to wage war is foolish and is always a losing proposition, even if you absolutely win! What are we doing in Iraq these days? There is very little evidence that our political leadership is trying to win the war, and don't ask what war. I know that our president declared that the war was over some years ago, but our troops in Iraq are daily fighting for their lives, trying with limited manpower to ferret out the insurgents who are trying to win back Iraq for themselves. On top of those disquieting facts, Iran keeps supplying arms and manpower to the so-called insurgents and we sit here doing nothing about it! It is incredible to me that we choose not to build up our armed forces and move into Iran and subdue them in no uncertain terms. They are as much our enemy as are the insurgents in Iraq! I am sorry that we went into Iraq, but now that we are in there, there can be no satisfactory end to it other than to completely crush all opposition! If our leaders are concerned about our image as it appears to the rest of the world, they certainly do not give evidence of true concern.

And how do our educators come into this picture? Simple enough! They refuse to acknowledge that all men are not equal! How do they expect to teach children who are assigned to classes where substantial numbers of the students do not even speak or understand the English language? If the teaching curriculum is programmed to concentrate on teaching the students who cannot even communicate in our language, what are they doing meanwhile to teach the students who CAN read and write in the language of our land? Is it so hard to understand that those classes have to be split into groups (classes) so that those who are able to learn more rapidly are challenged to do so, and that failure to do this leaves the best student material languishing in the background, listening to the teacher trying to get through to those who have no idea what he(she) is talking about!

Now I may not have done a proper job of making my point, but surely there are those of you out there who know what I am talking about. We have got to learn to stop kidding ourselves and face facts. We are rapidly losing "face" in the rest of the world because we do not insist that our educational system be run efficiently to get the job done of educating our children, and until we do, that system will continue to put out an inferior product.

O.K., I have opened the can of worms . . . now let's hear what some of the rest of you think!

Henry

http://henry-letsgetreal.blogspot.com