We need someone who will say HOW they plan to fix NCLB!

How do you plan to fix something as complex as the state of our public education system and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)? That is what journalists need to be asking the current presidential candidates! I am sick and tired of hearing people in our society, especially politicians, make statements on how things need to be different and that change is necessary, but then never offer a solution. I can tell you about thousands of things that need to be changed in modern society, but that doesn't mean I know how to do anything about them. I have yet to hear any of the current presidential candidates explain how they plan to help improve our public school system, as well as remedy the problems with NCLB.

The American public has to make it clear that we are not going to elect a president that can't explain how they are going to fix one of the most important, if not the most important issue in our country today. Yes the war in the Middle East is very important, but the future of our country depends on the children and young adults who are currently in schools across our country. In my opinion our country has let millions of students down by allowing our school system to decline to the state that it is currently in. We can only make things better if we as a society demand more discussion from the candidates about education in America and NCLB. We can't allow this issue to be swept under the rug! We must make it clear that our future president has to make his or her plans to fix the U.S. education system clear, including their solutions. Again I ask for your help to make this possible. Please post comments on my blog site, post on as many other sites that talk about our education system, and possibly create your own blog, it's free.

Everyone can make a difference!

Education in the U.S., especially public education, needs to receive much more attention from the media, the general public, and our government than it is currently being given. Students are dropping out of schools at a staggering pace, school districts have to sacrifice the health of their students to stay open, and activities like music class, recess, and after school sports are being removed from budgets. Why is it necessary for our country to force a generation of children and young adults to go through a schooling process that doesn’t in any way resemble the one that their parents and grandparents have such fond memories of? The answer is it’s not necessary! That is exactly why the topic of education has to get much more attention in this country.

The current presidential race would be a great platform for the topic of education to be addressed, and in all reality it must be addressed. Topics like the No Child Left Behind Act and funding for the public school system within the U.S. are far too important to the future of this country to be left out of the race for our next president. Our next president should want potential voters to understand how he or she plans to improve the state of our current education system, because let’s be honest, it needs improvement. Times change and so must our education system. However, I can’t understand how anyone, especially the future president of our country can be satisfied with the changes that have occurred within the U.S. education system over the last decade.

What gets me is that our news papers and nightly news programs aren’t filled with story after story addressing different aspects concerning the current state of education, because they should be. There are many reasons why close to one third of U.S. students drop out of school before graduating and very few of those reasons are the students’ fault. We can’t blame students for the way they are educated, that is up to the U.S Department of Education. And the manner in which the U.S. education system is managed is the responsibility of adults across our nation, because we have the opportunity to vote for our president. Help me make sure the topic of education is addressed by the current candidates for president by discussing the topic of education and raising awareness across our nation about it.