A TALE OF TWO EDUCATION CANDIDATES -- Just a Minute for Tuesday 7-29-08

Howdy Folks…

 

            Things movin’ kinda slow and hot for you?  ‘Tis for me. From about the middle of July ‘til about Labor Day I seem to get the hot and stickies. (Praise the Lord for A/C.) When I was a kid most of the time we had already made the after school trip to the grandparents in South Carolina and on alternate years to Alabama. Those I just remember as HOT days *except* when we could go swimmin’ in the creek or eat ice-cream out of the freezer – some called ‘em churns.

 

            My Uncle Clarence sticks in my memory as the Watermelon man. In mid to late August he had a smokehouse floor full of those green beauties. It’s still a little early in the season here in the upstate of SC for good, ripe watermelons. But I’ve had a taste of one or two recently that brought back memories of those days. Again with a few exceptions. The one I participated in yesterday had almost no seeds at all – and that was one of the grandest times with the South Carolina cousins to see who could spit watermelon seeds the farthest. Then to get to wash the sticky off with water pumped up from the well… it wasn’t ice-cold – just right to be refreshin’.  However, even watermelon, as near perfect as it is – you eventually got tired of – at least I did. Maybe not having a spittin’ contest takes some of the fun out of it.

 

            But I didn’t get tired soon enough of black walnuts. They were good mixed in with the ice cream.  But that’s for another day.

 

            I do remember my Aunt Lucy telling about teaching school in a one room school house adjacent to Grandpa’s farm. Boy… I thought that would be fun. But I never got to go to one. And another thing I never got… My feet never got as tough as my cousins’ who had been without shoes since the weather got warm enough in the Spring. I could never catch up with them getting over tender feet… or getting a sun tan. I always got a burn.

 

            What does that have to do with today’s program? Nothin’ much… just it’s the time of year for peaches and watermelons… and one should never let those times go unanswered.

 

            Today we deal with educating children… and how we’re seemingly locked into a losing system.  Listen and think what you can do about it.

 

Cordially, IN HIM

 

Jack

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

A TALE OF TWO EDUCATION CANDIDATES

Just A Minute – When it comes to solving educational problems in America we could not have two candidates who take such diametrically different approaches.

John McCain calls for alternatives to the government monopoly system; Barack Obama wants to keep the kids within that system that has proven to be America’s greatest scandal.  Speaking before the NAACP McCain says parents just want safe schools, competent teachers opening doors of opportunity for kids. (quote) “When a public system fails repeatedly to meet these minimal objectives … parents want a choice in the education of their children. (unquote)

California, Philadelphia and Washington DC have temporary programs offering limited but successful choices.

Obama has accepted  teacher union – NEA – endorsement denying children any kind of choice other than government schools; meanwhile his two daughters attend the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where annual tuition ranges from fifteen thousand plus to twenty thousand plus per child.

Do you think we’ll hear a debate about children’s education?

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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