Posted by
All Americans on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:58:12 AM
Public Schools
I know that each state in this great Union has rights as an independent State. I also know that the Federal government can trump State laws. I do not understand way at this time in this government’s history, that we are still using archaic rules for the Public school system.
The one that gets me the most is if you move one state to another state you can gain or lose credits for graduation. I know in my life, my dad’s job moved us to three different states and four different school districts. We as children, could not say we are not moving. The job told my dad to go we packed up and went. Yes, my dad could have changed jobs, why? The job was good and he moved though the ranks. As kids we got to learn about the country not just in textbooks or visiting a state, we lived there and got to know the history first hand.
I now have to nephews that now are in the same problem I was in. Moving while in high school. One moved from Pennsylvania to Minnesota for a year and now he is going back to Pennsylvania for his senior year. If he could stay in Minnesota all he would need to graduate is three classes. Going back to Pennsylvania he will not have the credits to graduate. My other nephew moved to Texas from Washington in his jr. year and he will be short on credits also.
This country is smaller now then it was when the Public school system was established. Family’s no longer grow up in the same city or the same state for generations and a family could move at lest once in a child’s school life. The federal government needs to make each school distract and state use the same credit structure for graduation and the same books, except for state history. Now this is the true beginning of no child left behind.