Stand Up for America!

American society must acknowledge that maximizing children's educational potential is key to solving current and future global crises. Without brain-based educational techniques and increased government funding, we, as a society, will suffer the ill effects of lost opportunities to maintain and increase our culture's freedoms, democracy, and power.

Losing sight of our only renewable resource, our children, their values, morales, and faith in American ideals, will only cost us in the long run. Look at how we are raising them. In daycare centers, in front of televisions, computers, and without respect for authority. We tolerate what is offered on television for children to watch; disrespectful, satirical shows where children talk back to adults and get laughs, and children wonder why that is not accepted when they talk that way in society.

The Writer's Guild strike should probably go on. The written material they produce is harming our society and its perceptions of right and wrong. Human life is not viewed as sacred anymore. Drug dealing is viewed as a career. There is no respect for obtaining an education. The value of an education is lost on children who expect to reach for the golden ring and get it every time. Every child expects that he or she is the next American Idol, reality contestant, or football star.

The work ethic is put aside in favor of easy money, fame or fortune. The value, morality, and effort of obtaining a great education through hard work and effort needs to be highly valued and recognized.