the students and the teachers

The students and the teachers?This is a topic that may mirrored my past, as a kid at P.S 89 in Harlem NY, it weresome students that were passed over when it was obvious that they weren't up topar in their educational aspirations, but I can remember some teachers paying moreattention to those students who were basely doing pretty well in school. The otherswere allowed to maintain a level of unacceptability and nothing was done for them.

Tome I found that out when I moved out of my school zone in an attempt to bettermyself. And it was the collaboration between me meeting new friends who werebeing educated in the catholic schools, as a kid I could see the differences in theirgrowth and educational level. As they were so advanced in various subjects and atthe time I was struggling to lift myself out of the educational hole I was in.

But even if they were some students on a lower level in educational flow chart theywere able to excel somewhat overtime.

What I saw in the catholic family group was a unit where the parents wasmotivating their kids in some way, promoting education, their future, the urgencyto advance through reading, library studies etc.

So in their particular case they were not placed in an arena of aiding their familymonetarily, which can be a holdback in some kids educational future.

So now I look at today's youth, as there are numerous kids who feel they are abovethe educational level of most, this is only in their minds, because you are streetsmart doesn't make you higher on the educational level in today's life.

I wonder if technological advancements have led them astray by stripping them oftheir given ability in the English language by way of eliminating certain alphabetsfrom a written text. Which was driving me crazy, my nephew emailed me a shortnote which had me thinking I was reading a foreign language when I was readingEnglish but in a short verbal text. I realize that when we are texting over the phonewe will need to shorten our fonts because of time and cost. But I strongly feel thisis an inappropriate use in the email format, or letter which I have seen onnumerous occasions.

And getting off of this subject, when was the last time you saw a kid reading abook that was required. You can bring up many titles to them and they don't know

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anything about it. I wonder who's fault is that was it the teachers, or the parents.

In my particular case our grandkids are doing pretty good in school, but Isometimes wonder at what level they are being motivated, I can still remember myteacher giving out assignments to read a certain book, and we were so upset atthem but we followed their warning and completed the reports in a timely manner.

So I can only be objective when it comes to my grandkids as to their responsibilitywhen it comes to homework, and I can report that our grandkids are complyingwith the mandates of the educational system here in Virginia.

But it's the unattended students who are not listening, or are not being observant intheir comprehension and facts being given by those mostly in charge who maybethe relatives or parents. And this maybe the overall problem, they are mentoringfrom what they see on television musicians, movie stars, sport stars and I hate toimply that they aren't able to excel in these areas but it is the daydreamingmentality that takes over setting them in the wrong directions in life, so I wonder isthis just me bring myself imposed arrogant, as a conceited façade, redirect themind of others.

So if the teachers are fudging scores just to reach a mandate of local governmentalrules to satisfy those in the most responsibly level of the educational system that'sjust too bad and will result in the community and the student's downfall.The so called parents and grandparent complaints about anything if we areinfluential in working with our educational system leaving everything up to themto raise our kids and grandkids.

So if someone had told me that in 2008, after the presidential race and BarackObama being elected as the president of the united state, that we wouldn't have anupsurge in our educational system especially in the African American community.

And with all of the rallying and leaders mustering up support to show our kids thatthey have a chance to become something in the political arena, or even becomingpresident. Apparently this mindset hasn't taken place so far and some of the kidsare allowing the music to manifest negative things in their life.

We can talk and talk and still they are seeing things in as a vision of sugar plumsdancing in their head, not setting a mandate for their future.

If they what to do something constructive they must direct all of their energies


towards that direction, without the oversight of others but for self.

all I'm seeing today is that more energy is being directed wrongly as a directionalprocess which is a complete 360 degrees turnaround and confusion, I'm sure mostkids do understand that mindset at least those in the early high school level, butonce they have graduated and they still can't make up their minds as to what theywant to do in the future, is somewhat stressing.

Should we be the driving force behind them as some of the other races, have doneand set goals for their kids or the kids are following them in their footsteps that ofbeing a doctor, lawyer, teacher, or military ranks that of a officer, and not drillingin their mind the aspiration of being in various areas of music, and that of hip-hop,sports, as it is always mentioned as the proper halo of how much money is beingmade in those area of life , some have the ability but they will need to includeeducation as a buffer or back fall if their career doesn't' get off the ground.

so why would anyone want to worship any celebrity if they are evading their dutythat of paying taxes, taking drugs, broadcasting stupidity over the media, justoutright madness and our kids think this is a great metaphor of someone's greatlife.But some kids are so narrow-minded when it comes to others interjecting afundamental precept of future and what can impede their future.

It's funny how some kids will negate advice that comes so freely, especially fromthose of family. They will jump to the occasion of an unknown individual shootingoff with lip-service as if they have some monumental hidden knowledge to movethem on in life. I know of individuals who has over the years who have attemptedto persuade others on some scheme to elevate them and a return for theirinvestment, and they have never excelled beyond that dream.

So how many of the homeless who never excelled in life who can be extremely outforward relating to that questions that emanated in their life, but the dream goes on.

Stories can be told in books, live television talk shows, media news of the collapseof some famous stars life, and still we have our kids not paying attention to thewarnings.

Tome this is a complete breakdown on communication between parents and theeducational system.


It so easy to say if I had a second chance to do my life all over again I would havedone it differently. This is the excuse that most of us would convey to those wefeel needed mentoring.

But as I say it is a conversational overflow of vocalized wording that really doesn'tcluster to the main topic of educational responsibilities.

So we can converse over and over and until our youth experience the problems oflife they will never get the full picture, but we do have those with insight and willgrab that information and utilize it constructively. And that's great to know but it'sthe few who are malingering in and off-site of gathering up that information fortheir future.

It would be great if it hasn't already been done, that some great author wouldcollaborate with our educational system, and structure and implement an in-houseprogram that would coordinate our youth in such a way as a program that wouldjuxtapose that of English, and mathematical attribute and the educational processof life. But we wait until they have reached high school level and now we want tobombard them with our imposed future objectives when it should have started inthe lower grades, and even when they were a toddler.

So the Atlanta educational problem that of teachers spent nights huddled in a backroom, erasing wrong answers on students' test sheets and filling in the correctanswers. And in other schools that were struggling students were seated next tohigher-performing classmates so they could copy answers.

Was it always the Administrators who pressured them to maintain high scoresunder the federal No Child Left Behind laws and the punishment of being firedwould follow to those who reported anything less than the mandate required be thetop administrators and fear, intimidation and retaliation would follow suchunexpected results. The report names 178 teachers and principals, and 82 of thoseconfessed to changing mark or giving answers to the undeserving.

Tens of thousands of children at the 44 schools, most in the city's poorestneighborhoods, were allowed to advance to higher grades, even though they didn'tknow basic concepts, and then one teacher told an investigator that the district wasbeing run like a mob mentality.


I'm aware that the stakes were high but to fall below in the peons of the earth andsociety overlooked it as just another part of the educational system.So I cannot chastise them in my onslaught of verbal attribute but I feel they werepressured and this is what will happen when something like this is allowed tohappen.So the summer school which would be interrupted in some case the vacation of theparents may lead them causing problems with the teach as I have heard of thosewho were so upset when the kids had to attend summer school, not looking at thesituation as being beneficial for their kids.I can just imagine parents so upset at times because of the low grades of theoffspring's in such a way that the teacher has to weight in between the lines do Iwant all of this static, from parent and the educational system? Or should they justfind away to satisfy them, and just maybe no one will lose but the kids.So the stakes are high and if I want to keep my place of employment I'll just gowith the flow.

If someone has the nerve to say we don't have that many kids dropping out ofschool each year, these are my personal calculation on that subject.

Actual calculations:

There are 60 seconds in each minutes, so 60 x 60= 3600 second per minute nowtake this and x each hour x 24 hours per day = 86,000 second per day x 365 daysper year = 2,073,600 seconds per year divided by 26 which is the amount of timesa student drops out of school so my overall calculations are there areapproximately a total of kids that are dropping out of school is “80,000” per yearand we don't have a problem. Eventually we will be at the end of the list in ouroverall standing compared to other countries.

So what will those kids who are left behind destination be, those who are roamingthe streets in desperation and homelessness. But we continue to move in life as ifnothing is going on.

As the Mad-max syndrome raise its ugly head ready to carve out a future for theUnited States, as if we have those who are waiting for some great timeless magicalhuman ability to collapse the entire system as that of a supernatural forces of some


great mind beyond man.


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