The Constitution of the United States
By msbyte
@msbyte (219)
United States
December 29, 2006 10:57pm CST
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"
(US Constitution)
How many of us sat through this bored out of our skulls in Middle and High School?
We don't even know what it means anymore, and when we tell our children "soldiers died for us to have this", we are given a disconnected blank stare. It means nothing to a generation of TV watching, x-box playing, the world owes me, when do I get a car, fast food nation.
Have we forgotten 9-11? That day changed my life. I became more politically active, I quit my job within 6 months and now spend more time with my family.
We can almost be considered an elitist nation. People starving and dying every day and we whine when we have to wait in line for 5 minutes at the grocery store.
Can we go back to freedom?
One way to start, we need to take back public schools. With every Federal dollar, comes a federal regulation. Public schools should be run by and for the communties which they serve. Parents need to be involved. We need to know what our children are learning and inspire them to know how to change the world for the better.
If you have children - have you ever spent a day or two at your child's school? Do you know the values and beliefs of the teachers that are with your child 7-8 hours a day? Have you looked at what they are taught?
1 response
@airnavigator (369)
• United States
18 Jan 07
Insteadof becoming politically active and trying to influence public schools, why not just privatize the schools and let the parents choose the school they want? With privitization, schools would either provide the education the parents want or they would go out of business as parents moved the children to another school and paid them, rather than the previous school.
The problem with public schools is not so much the teachers as the special interest groups that lobby for what they want taught. Since most people who are politically active in a big way are usually childless they have the time and resources to concentrate on political lobbying while parents are too busy trying to raise their children and earn a living. Privitization would put parents back in control and get the government and special interests out of the picture.
