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Helping hands

 Philanthropy in the United States have created many exciting things. It can be viewed as a greedy thing but in reality most of it is to make something good better. We have seen good companies come and go due to lack of financial support. Not every organization has the funds to sustain themselves. There are some that don't even make it out of their first year that have great concepts behind them but don't have a strong financial backing. The saddest story is finding out of a company that was never made due to no financial support at all. Everyone needs a push, even Steve Jobs and his infinite wisdom on technology needed support to fuel his ideas. The point i'm making is that Philanthropy is good for those seeking to better society.      Schools are not exempt from this cruel reality of the world. We all need money for one thing or another if we plan on doing anything for the betterment of society and ultimately the world.  Charter schools have benefited gre...
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Want vs Have

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     When Ronald Reagan got out there and addressed the American people. Telling us the importance of maintaining your child's education. Keeping them in check and wanting the best for them. I knew he was onto to something. His "A Nation At Risk" movement was something I agreed with. I've been preaching education will serve us in the long run. We want eduction for all and for ourselves, especially for our children. If we lost our chance at a proper and well educated school system while we were in public schools then let's not let it happen to our children. Our children need to be educated to make well informed decisions. Core classes are nice but we need to give them useful information that can be used practically.  A nation is at risk when their citizens can't properly make decisions to ensure a quality leader is in the White House.       The nation was falling apart. Were the school children and the lack of quality education the issue? I don't think ...
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Americanization

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                            The non-natural American children all have a different culture in them. They were raised differently than American children. They have their own culture with many ways of being baked into the culture. Their environments are much different than what the United States had to offer. We start to move into a territory of clashing cultures. The bilingual students are inherently different. The purpose of trying to americanize them is to convert them. The board of education wanted every American student to be truly American. Strip yourself of your past culture and adopt ours. The bilingual children couldn't fully experience the American lifestyle without knowing of it. This idea of losing your culture to adopt a new one is not good.  An intelligent person would never negate new knowledge, to purposefully lose knowledge would be an unintelligent thing to do. It puzzles me how the scho...
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Early Literacy and me

Early experiences      My mother used to always read to me when I was a young boy. She wouldn't d the traditional route of reading short children books but instead we would read full length books. I'm the youngest of 3 which significant age gaps. We would read Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone. Thats a very long book so we would take a long time to read it. Eventually through this process I wouldn't be listening to her instead i'd be reading the book aloud to her. I think this was great for me because when I was big enough to go to school and when we started reading aloud in class I would never struggle. I noticed that even later on in life during high school I would be shocked at the amount of students that struggled to read correctly and consistently aloud in class.      I never felt illiterate because I was always being taught how to communicate well. My parents are Spanish speakers that can read and write it well. I always had to balance both langua...
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