Be content with my lot in life, yes. But not with everything.
For example, not content with our inner city schools. In this Detroit High School, 90% of incoming freshmen read below the 5th grade level.
That’s simply not good enough.
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Why?Almost half of American adults read below high school level. God looks at your heart, not your reading skills. Big faith can be built on simple words.
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it isn’t good enough, but we have to be very careful not to blame the teachers, who are doing the best they can with overcrowded classrooms and little support, or the admin pukes who are hamstrung by unworkable policies.
This goes back a long way; it’s not simply a Gordian knot. We the electorate have to elect those who are willing to undo decades of failed policy and programme.
I agree. Blame doesn’t solve the problem. One of our boys struggled with reading, and he wound up in a first-grade classroom with six kids and two teachers. Intensive intervention early on broke through the barriers. His brother told that story in his teaching interview, saying, “I believe that every kid in America should have that kind of opportunity.”