The Afroconservative is Moving, Education/Welfare Reform, and more of why I can't stand Nancy Pelosi
In case you are wondering...
Yes, I am anticipating the leftists trying to indoctrinate me-and I'll blog about each incident-don't worry!
I will definitely miss my coworkers. Surprisingly, I was the only Republican in my school. I was surrounded by Liberal Democrats every day. Politics aside, I did work with some amazing people. It does take lots of love, patience, courage, and tenacity to work in an urban school. I get really angry when politicians malign public school teachers because working in an urban school system is very difficult. It is my experience that most of the "issues" in the inner city schools have very little to do with the teachers, but has lots to do with the value systems of the parents. Regardless of where one might be on the socioeconomic spectrum, I have found that when parents are invested in the education of their children-the children fare better. The issues that I've seen have very little to do with "funding" but have everything to do with parental involvement.
Don't misunderstand. I am not negating the importance of adequate funding. What I am saying is that no amount of money can compensate for lackluster parental involvement in the educational process. Aside from Liberals negating the value of a mother and a father in the home, the issues that plague some low income families’ stem from the fact that they are told by their politicians that they don't have to work-government is here to take care of everything. Sometimes, they unknowingly pass those same values onto their children. This is probably why we see the same issues such as low motivation in low income urban schools. One solution that I've pondered is some type of connection between children's performance and welfare payments. In other words, if you are on government assistance, your children have to make certain grades and benchmarks or else you might be in jeopardy of losing your benefits. Now, it's not that I'm being harsh or cruel, it's just a program like that would do a lot to curtail generational dependency. It would force parents to be accountable for their children's educational outcomes. If the child makes the grade level benchmarks, the chances of them being on welfare later on in life greatly diminishes.
Anyways, I walked into the office of the new administrator to tender my resignation as Guidance Counselor. I was shocked to see that he had pictures of Obama ALL OVER THE WALLS! I thought to myself, "I wonder who he supported on November 4, 2008?".
*sigh* I'm used to it. I will be taking a position as a Family Therapist in another inner city school when I relocate back to my home state. I am excited about the new position but I'm even more excited that I'll finally be able to begin pursuing a second master's degree!
Be patient with me. I'm going to write about Nancy Pelosi likening concerned Americans to Nazis soon. Nancy Pelosi has some nerve, especially because she's the one who advocated birth control to "help" with the economy. Something HITLER AND THE REAL NAZIS SUPPORTED.
My blood pressure started going up just thinking about such a statement. Post coming soon!
Thanks for the supportive emails and thank you for reading.
ON POINT!!! But you need to come to Mich. Detroit could use some GOOD COMMON SENSE!!! We've got Keith Butler & Akindele Akinyemi to name a VERY few ,but we could use more help
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