Financial Shakeup this weekend

[catchacab]

I believe that a perfect educational system does not and can not exist.  What is great for one student is not appropriate for another.  Each system (European, and American) has their merits.  Our system of education is  compromise, where with limited budgets, federal and state educational mandates, and issues at school that originate from the home environment.

In our country, education is the most underfunded part of the federal and state government.  Educating our youth is the single most effective way to reduce the need for public assistance, decrease crime, and improve the standard of living for all in our country.  For a long time I have felt that our country should require additional training be it college or trade school beyond the high school years.  For those who choose not to continue their education, then military service should be required.

Our country is going broke paying for our current and future senior citizens medical bills.  If you didn't take care of yourself, are over weight, smoke,  drink excessively, and have never exercised; then you don't deserve two hip replacements, care for five heart attacks, dialysis, and treatment of diabetes.  Let the old die, and use that money for those who will contribute to our country.

Our schools need more skilled teachers and greatly reduced class size, to give the students greater one on one interaction and more personalized lesson plans. 

College and trade schools should be fully funded so that family and student finances are of no concern in choosing a post secondary education or school.  

Parents (across all social strata)  need to become more involved with their children, their children's education, and their children's school.  It is time  for many to stop thinking about themselves, and hold their children as a higher priority.  Professionally, I spend my day with children.  Many children that are labeled and treated for  ADD and ADHD, truly do not suffer from that medical condition.  Many of them just need some interest, guidance, and discipline from their parents.  A great child psychologist that disagrees with most current dogma in child psychology (but he agrees with the pre-Spock child psychologists) is John Rosemond.  Read him.