Perhaps the best and easiest forum for connection will become social media?
Your monologue winds through your thinking until you get it just right at the end…what the world needs more of is… love. Pure and simple. Human connection.
I agree that the reform pundits wish to focus on the bottom line at becoming #1 in the world instead of putting our children and families #1. That is a risk our country is not prepared for.
Schooling’s purpose is to grow decent, civilized citizens who will contribute to the world in honorable, productive ways, giving back to each new generation.
Nowhere can I find that it is a competition for world rankings. As usual, happiness is in our own backyards, not at the mercy of what others who want us to believe power and prestige will make it so.
Maybe the first thing we can do, tonight, is set the dinner table, perhaps more decorative than usual, and sit down with our families and begin a dialogue about what is important in life.
Let it begin with me, you, us…one day at a time. Wouldn’t it be something if recovery began with bringing the family meal back into vogue. It’s where we all began with good intentions but were so easily distracted by things that really don’t matter.
I love the phrase “You matter in the world”. Do our kids hear that often enough?
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Yes, it IS schooling’s purpose, but more importantly the family’s purpose to raise decent citizens. The glorification of single motherhood and abortion contributes to in-decent citizenship and family breakdown. Curious, so many people support the legal killing of abortion and call it choice, but are against choice when it comes to weapons of defense in the hands of citizens in a position to take down people like Adam Lanza, who are probably cowards who would never enter a school were it not a “gun free zone.”
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