Thoughts on Parenting by a Black Mother: TIME TO GET SERIOUS

Thoughts on Parenting by a Black Mother: TIME TO GET SERIOUS: "Hello to the blogosphere! I had to take a time out from blogging to attend to a few personal issues but I am back!! In the interim my baby ..."

TIME TO GET SERIOUS

Hello to the blogosphere! I had to take a time out from blogging to attend to a few personal issues but I am back!!

In the interim my baby graduated from High School and is on her way to college in New York in the fall!. I am so happy for her and so relieved that she was able to navigate the public school system here in Georgia and get into College. Let me tell you it was not easy as it seems to me that the school system here is geared towards putting roadblocks in the way of our children's success. It is crazy but I think the schools are so bogged down with bureaucracy and so afraid of being sued/investigated that they have forgotten that the main purpose of a school is to educate. It is not to provide jobs for teachers and administrators or to prop up a system. Our children should be the main focus and sadly based on my experience with the public school system in this state, our children are very low on the list of priorities.

So I say it is time to get serious, serious about the state of our Public Schools, serious about our role as Parents and realizing  that we cannot sit back and wait for the government to do something,these are our children who are leaving school as ignorant as they went in. These are our children who are being passed through a system and graduated, but who cannot write a whole paragraph in English that is well constructed and grammatically correct. We have to get serious, our children's future depends on it.