I just sent off a letter to the editor at the KC Star. Sometimes I just have enough. Even though I already posted once this morning, I turned to the electronic of the KC Star and could not stop thinking about what has happened in Florida. I can’t let this slide. I can’t say enough about how change is needed. Therefore, here is one of my entries I am calling Enough is Enough. Please share if you agree.
Seeing Florida mom Lori Alhadeff’s outrage pains me and justifiably so. The raw emotion should trigger the entire country’s sense of enough is enough. She rightfully screamed into the camera and asked that our country fix a problem that cannot be ignored another day, another week, another month.
As a retired teacher, I hear the news and cringe. I know the faces of the students, and I know them personally. I may have taught in the Midwest, but that does not lessen the outrage I feel as the long litany of school shootings continues.
Young people carrying guns in backpacks is simply unacceptable. Young people in school must focus on preparing for the adult world being educated how to learn, how to question, how to create, how to dream. Schools must be filled with teachers and administrators focused on teaching the individual to the best of that student’s ability.
Our society is out of time.
Stop reacting and start shifting the paradigm now.
Education has become a numbers game: educating all students as a mass, not as indviduals.
Education must value the students each as an individual at all cost. And yes, it will cost; but we must not allow the cost to slam the door shut on the country’s future.
Enough is enough!
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