1,000 children sleep homeless every night. Children hook on the streets to escape abusive families. Drug dealers continue to operate selling to children in our neighborhoods. Latch key children spend countless hours roaming the streets after school or late at night. Parents work more and more and spend less and less time with their children. Gangs of kids roam vandalizing our city and threatening people. We pay teachers and early childcare givers poorly failing to attract the best people into the profession. Parents who never learned parenting skills scream in disrespect to their children in public or worse.......
These and other profound issues are the core of our education problem. We can talk about 5 less kids in class, block scheduling of classes, what time we start school or whether training is in our out of the classroom until we are blue in the face, but until we get our arms around these bigger issues we are wasting money and time, beating each other up for absolutely no reason, and watching thousands of children slip through our fingers. Russell W. Peterson Saint Michael _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
