Your children’s education at risk!
In no greater time have we seen such a need for education and those who provide it; as we step into a future full of technology and struggle to further close the educational gap abroad, we must not put undue pressure and lacking resolve in our public educators.
John Adams wrote in April of 1776,
“Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant”
It was this placed importance that Adams would ensure his own education and the effect it would have on his life; which impart played a major role in founding this nation. There is no greater cause that ensuring the safety and plentifullness of the mind and the role that it plays in creating the freedoms we so much cherish.
I am reminded of Adams due diligence with regards to the current state of our education system and the people who dedicate their lives to help further the concepts and freedoms of our founding fathers, whom which fought so hard to ensure that their children could impart the knowledge of mathematics, writing, reading and so forth to a new era of young people; it for this reason that we must not place blame of those who like us all, give up so much of their own lives to help remind us why we are all here. The public educators of this great nation are people whom we should help champion the youth of tomorrow and in doing so it is our responsibility not as political foes, nor as combatants of right or left but to put our differences aside and not put our children’s education at risk and punish those whom occupy such a rare space by removing what is crucially required for them to uphold their profession.
I call upon all citizens of this country to give back and help the education system where they can; to provide not only what was given to you but what is required to survive in this world as a free nation. We could argue left and right about how the money could or should be spent and we could spend days, months and years on every penny but while doing so we are putting an undue burden on what is important, our children. Call your local Congressman and let them know that you expect better of them and that by cutting funding to our public educators and education you are not only hurting our nation but you are hurting the millions of young people who ought to have the right to learn.
I am forced to close with a quote from whom which I opened with,
“The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our son may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture in order to give their children the right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain”
We mustn’t forget the liberties we are endowed and the rights we have in using them. So make the humane choice and support your public educators and put the political differences aside and support your children’s right to learn.
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