What is happening to education in this country?

I am becoming very angry with the education system. We as a country should invest so much in education because they are our future. The education in this country was once the best in the world and now we are lagging behind and soon everything else will too. We will not be able to compete in the business world, people are relocating to the United States and taking the jobs that we are not even educated enough to qualify for.

I have a two year old that I am already stressing over when I think of sending him to public school. I have always had faith in the public school system, but lately I have lost respect even for the schools. There are to many  children in the rooms for the teacher to teach with any quality instruction even if there were no behavior issues and all the students were at grade level. But there are 36 five and six year olds in a kindergarten classroom, some have never held a pencil/crayon, others never get breakfast, some have never been away from their parents; and in this classroom a teacher is supposed to give all equal time. Well guess what? That is impossible, and my boy who, at 2, loves to look at books and color and sing and count will be forgotten in the class because he isn't causing problems and can follow directions. This is only one of many, many issues that bother me.

What about the teachers who bring in Cosmo magazine for the fourth graders to read and she doesn't even get written up for it. Or the teacher who hates teaching? Or the principal that doesn't know her staff and is harassing the ones she does?

I don't have the answers. But I do have one suggestion. Lets stop giving criminals in prison warm breakfast everyday, and soda to drink or any other luxury. They are prisoners and should be treated that way. I am not saying that they need to be abused but I don't even get to eat breakfast everyday let alone a nice warm one. Give them the basics of life and spend the money educating our children instead. It costs something like $35,000 a year to keep someone locked up in prison and it only costs $8500 a year to teach a child. Doesn't it seem like a better way to spend our tax dollars? Educate them so they don't end up in prison.

I sure there will be more of this to come.

Needing Some Time

I love my husband dearly. But once again I am here alone with the kids and he is off having fun at a basketball game. He asked if he could go and I said it was totally fine. I still think it is fine but I would like some time to have fun without the kids too. My time to myself is usually the two minute commute to work or when the kids are asleep finally and he is at work (but then I am so tired I just go to bed). I just don't think he understands what it feels like to not have that time to yourself. I don't want to take away his time cause he needs to have it too.

I would really love some time to be artistic and crafty. I took a class this week where we were able to experiment with different art mediums and I loved it. On my way home I bought some things and have not had any time to even unwrap the products. I want to have some time to create my own "masterpieces". I would even enjoy some time without the kids here to do some productive housework.

I suppose what I really need to do is talk with my husband and find a babysitter.

Summer is Here!!!

So today was the last day of school. I feel free but I don't know if I really like it or not. I have not been free for . . . never. I have always been in school, for twenty years.