Comments on: How About a $700 Billion Bail Out For Our Schools?! http://blog.strengthsmovement.com/?p=139 Parenting tips, education reform, positive psychology Thu, 09 Sep 2010 12:37:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Ashley Hall http://blog.strengthsmovement.com/?p=139#comment-2132 Ashley Hall Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:16:01 +0000 http://blog.strengthsmovement.com/?p=139#comment-2132 I wholeheartedly agree with you, Jennifer!!! We educators and parents must stand up for what we know to be true about our current education system and the changes that need to take place. It is time to stop sitting back, complaining, and thinking about what could be different, and actually take ACTION! I am in the midst of reading your book and absolutely love it! I support what you are doing and am in the process of taking action myself. I am filled with a wondrous passion for this cause and for students across our nation to know who they are, what they are here to do, and then fulfilling that purpose! Ashley E. Hall 3rd grade ELL teacher Nashville, TN I wholeheartedly agree with you, Jennifer!!! We educators and parents must stand up for what we know to be true about our current education system and the changes that need to take place. It is time to stop sitting back, complaining, and thinking about what could be different, and actually take ACTION! I am in the midst of reading your book and absolutely love it! I support what you are doing and am in the process of taking action myself. I am filled with a wondrous passion for this cause and for students across our nation to know who they are, what they are here to do, and then fulfilling that purpose!

Ashley E. Hall
3rd grade ELL teacher
Nashville, TN

]]> By: Aurelio Montemayor http://blog.strengthsmovement.com/?p=139#comment-2181 Aurelio Montemayor Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:53:57 +0000 http://blog.strengthsmovement.com/?p=139#comment-2181 YES. We must create the public will to support the resources $$$ our children merit, deserve and need. I'm glad for you and the rest out there with the vision, the charisma and the writing chops to keep the vision focused on children's assets. The taxpayer relief movement focuses on physical property assets as if those are the ultimately most important and tangible...and most in need of defense from 'bad govmint'. California used to have a fairly good educational system until Prop. 13 and the 'taxpayer relief' brand of common (as in lowest common denominator) sense took hold and now that educational system is pretty much going down the toilet. Money and resources for public education make a huge difference for our economic future. (I'm personally more interested in justice, compassion and the furtherance of the democratic dream, but I don't think that sells these days.) The harsh truth for the long haul: you can't have a secure economic future without equity and excellence in public education. More than the Department of Defense budget, more than the bailout of our private sector big-betting gamblers that are sinking the economies of the whole world, we must, as a nation, decide that our children are our future. We must act and vote accordingly. And again, thanks for your blog, your book and you. YES. We must create the public will to support the resources $$$ our children merit, deserve and need. I’m glad for you and the rest out there with the vision, the charisma and the writing chops to keep the vision focused on children’s assets. The taxpayer relief movement focuses on physical property assets as if those are the ultimately most important and tangible…and most in need of defense from ‘bad govmint’.
California used to have a fairly good educational system until Prop. 13 and the ‘taxpayer relief’ brand of common (as in lowest common denominator) sense took hold and now that educational system is pretty much going down the toilet.
Money and resources for public education make a huge difference for our economic future. (I’m personally more interested in justice, compassion and the furtherance of the democratic dream, but I don’t think that sells these days.)
The harsh truth for the long haul: you can’t have a secure economic future without equity and excellence in public education.
More than the Department of Defense budget, more than the bailout of our private sector big-betting gamblers that are sinking the economies of the whole world, we must, as a nation, decide that our children are our future.
We must act and vote accordingly.
And again, thanks for your blog, your book and you.

]]> By: Kate http://blog.strengthsmovement.com/?p=139#comment-2225 Kate Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:11:44 +0000 http://blog.strengthsmovement.com/?p=139#comment-2225 I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often. Kate http://educationonline-101.com I recently came accross your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Kate

http://educationonline-101.com

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