Student Loan Forgiveness

The government needs to consider forgiving student loan debt.  The government bailed out companies who knowing lost millions if not billions of dollars.  The outcome was decline of many jobs from able bodied citizens.  Those citizens who lost jobs went through rough times.  Some lost their homes, marriages, confidence and more.  Students take the loans to increase their education to enter the job market with credible skills and start their lives as productive citizens.  The government will gladly loan the money.  After graduation the economy has few jobs to make a living and pay back the loaned amount.  The graduate, too much of the time, moves back in with their parents.  They get meager jobs which only pay back the loan with a mere pittance left over for them to enjoy.  If the government would partially or fully forgive the loans, the graduate could start life.  The graduate would become economically active and start spending while setting up their life.  The taxes paid to the government in doing this would most probably offset the paying back of the loans.  Student loan repayment only create interest on the loan going to the government.  More economically active people will create taxes, increase demand for more job creation and maybe contribute to the social security system.  Seems closer to the win-win situation the government likes.  There has been the long time adage we all know,  ‘Leave a better planet for our children.’  I now say, ‘Leave better children for our planet.’

DAILY GOAL FOR STUDENTS - 2012 PLEDGE

It is almost 2012.  Time for the schools to change from a teacher focus to a student focus.   High school administrations like to voice they are preparing the student for college or work after high school.  This is too far of a goal for a student.  Every day in school IS the life of the student.  Every day in school IS when a student should listen, learn and do what assignment is given to them.  Every day in school IS the sole goal a student should strive to achieve.  While administration is measuring a daily teacher goal per the lesson plan preparation and diversity of content.  The student has the one goal - graduate.  What a wrong scenario.  The administration must stand with the teacher, not in evaluation only, and be sure each student comprehends and completes each daily assignment.  Each day is a lesson for the student to learn as each day is the life of the student.  My plea for 2012 is for every administrator to stand beside with the teacher and look at the students as a team to get the student on the path of daily focus and completion of assignment.   Each parent and teacher should join as a team to ensure the goal for the student is daily.

No More Waiting for Superman - Be Superadults Today

There is no time for the educational system of our students to be ’Waiting for Superman.’  Each adult must be a superadult (superman) for each student.  Superman was faster than a speeding bullet, stronger than a locomotive and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.  Each adult could do the same, if portraying the correct character traits.

Each adult can be straightforward (faster than a speeding bullet).  Too many times the adults are reactive not proactive.  Teachers by sending reports or making telephone calls home to parents are to inform the parent of issues, after the fact, in a reactive trait.  Superadults will be straightforward and proactive.  Super teachers and the school district will observe the student and report matters to the home before inappropriate action escalates.  The adult in the life of a youth must be faster than a speeding bullet.

Each superadult must behave with restriction and with resolve when enforcing rules to a youth (stronger than a locomotive).  The adult and teacher are the enforcers of established rules.  All involved must be consistent in the enforcement of each rule.  Superadults are restrictive and of strong resolve like the power of a locomotive.

Each superadult is a grown-up (able to leap tall buildings in a single bound).  Adults must dress the part of being a grown-up, make an appearance in their child’s (student’s) life and live so as to be witnessed by the youth.  Youth observe each grown-up more than listen to each grown-up.  It is paramount for the superadult to be grown-up and acting in a mature manner, standing tall enough to leap a tall building.

Time is here for all superadults to take the charge of raising the youth and to be superman in their traits which they shall put on display.  The educational system is waiting for superadults, let's give them what they desire. 

An African saying is,  ‘A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which his mother puts into his palm.’  It is time for all adults to become the superadults for their children, now, so our educational system will improve and our students will find educational success.