Blog #6 

The Lies We Tell Our Children!

Our parents have always told their children that, if you go to school and work hard that upon graduation, you would be able to find a way to make a living. By “make a living” they meant to find a job.

This was true in the forties, fifties—but the truth of this statement has begun to fade.

Now it is a lie that we tell our children.

For our small middle class families this statement remains true.

For the large low income families it is a lie that their parents tell their children.

Our public schools teach mostly low income children.

Eighty four percent of CPS pupils are from low income families.

When our low income pupil graduates, there will be no good jobs waiting for them.

What will be available to low income pupils at graduation are:

(a) Low income positions

(b) High income in drugs

(c) Criminal activities

Many choose (b) some choose ©.  This is when they enter the “Criminal Justus System of America”.

We must change this.

If we teach our children in the elementary schools of America what they need to be taught so that they can be employed upon graduation, is a goal every educator should strive to achieve.

We, “The public schools of America” must produce curriculums that will bring back the middle class.

To do this we must:

(a) Create a typing program in the first grade.

(b) Introduce the computer in the first grade.

(c) Teach windows programs to our children.

(d) Use learning programs to teach mathematic and science.

STEP UP!