Education for today's children...Cost and Government's failure

It is always  easy to blame the Government for public school failures, but if we look in the mirror we'll see the real reason we are failing our children.  We first set around when President Carter, a liberal religious fanatic, established the Education department.

Of course from his small perspective of Plains, Georgia he grew up believing that  the best way to fix anything is to give it to the government. You can see this was a failed program and it would take a strong President to un-fund and not appoint a Cabinet position. The problem with this is we now have federal bureaucrats telling local schools how to educate and even feed our children. Of course the Agriculture Department dictates the  food diet for our children now. Watch the new TV show, Jamie's Food Revolution and you'll see how ridiculousness the bureaucracy has made the lunch hour.

Further problems  have been created by consolidating the schools into larger schools.  This was another 60's brain child, ...economies of scale.  It did create a new level of managers and with larger schools, now small cities, it has created disciplinary problems that needed to be solved by School Police forces.

Let's see what else can we easily identify as a problem with the large area schools, oh yea...busing.  This is a real joke.  Go to schools and see how many parent drive their children to school. Why?  The buses aren't safe  for the children because there is nor way for a driver...one person, to monitor the bus and drive.

So we see a large mass issue reflects unsafe environment for buses, school time in general, diet problems and a larger cost of management.  I haven't even mentioned the quality of the education.  In a word, it SUCKS.

This year we received a letter form the Clarke County School board that told us the school where our son (my step son)  goes to school has not performed to the level of "the no child left behind program."  This program worked well in Texas so President Bush moved it to the national level...Wrong move!!!  Keep it local.  The  liberals got their hands on the program...Teddy Kennedy (remember him, letting the young female aid die in his car at Chappiqudic and he never went to court Kennedy)  this assured it would get passed, but the value of the program was lost.  Remember to keep it local and eliminate the National bureaucracy.

Well ,we got the letter and it told us we could take our son to any other middle school in the county, this according to the Federal law. BUT all the other schools had also failed!!!  Let me say that again, all the other middle schools, four in total, have failed as well.   I felt terrible.

I married my wife, planning on taking care of her and her son and I can't find him a decent school.  The only answer was to see if I could get him into a private school that has a way to help poor families. I say poor because that is where I am. POOR.  I was making a strong salary when the company that wanted me to manage this office, Palm Harbor Homes, but after sales continued to disappear because of the economy, I was moved to a sale person. I was actually making less on their salary that I receive now from Unemployment.

Needless to say we were fortunate to get Josh into the Athens Academy, but we still had to come up with $4700 for the year. I believed I could do that in a year as I believed work would turn around.  Today I am owed $6500 in consulting fees from a non profit I have been helping for a year and a half and I am still expecting to start the construction ASAP.  But I have heard that for a year.  If I don't get the funds to AA by April 30, Josh may not show up in school on May 1st.  

This has been a tough year. The last  eight have been tough financially. I wish God would tell me what I am missing or doing wrong.

I have digressed from the education issue.  The poor education in this county, the very county that houses the flag ship of Colleges in the State, UGA; has driven us to a private school and we are on the hook for more money.  Hey if you're reading this, send money!!  :-)