Rose Colored Glasses

As I read the first chapter and then began the second, I realized that I was angry and uptight. I know that there is unequal distribution in large inner cities, but how does it relate to Idaho? By the time I was finished reading chapter four, I was beginning to understand the answer. Everything is connected in the universe, isn’t it? We have a responsibility to not only ourselves, family, friends, but also the general population? At what point do we stop caring about our fellow human beings and suddenly treat them as if they are just statistics that don’t matter? My school building has sealed off asbestos, black mold, brown water, a leaky roof, poor air quality and the list goes on. We don’t have rats where my class is located but I’ve heard they are rampant in another building. This is beginning to sound like one of those inner city schools. Nope, we are just another school, like so many in Idaho, that repeatedly can’t get a bond passed. Some comments made by the public are “If it was good enough for me and my dad, it is good enough for my kids.” Seriously? When do we as the public stop looking at the problems in society through those rose colored glasses? Isn’t it time we say these are the real issues in education and we need to come up with real solutions to solve them? We don’t need to mold and skew the research data to conform to what we “wish” the educational world was like. We need to take those rose glasses off and put on our tri focal spectacles to analyze the real problems as we push an educational “revolution” in the U.S. today. At least as I turn on the fan in my room, expunging it of the bad air, I can put on my yellow lens glasses to look on the “bright” side of the education reform issues. The human beings really do count…

Merry Christmas