What we need is “separation of school and state”. Government schools promote government, just as Catholic schools promote Catholicism, Jewish schools promote Judaism, etc.

An increasingly centralized bureaucratic government monopoly is doomed to failure, as is obvious from US experience. When you force s.o. to attend school, tell them the one school they have to go to, tell them what they have to study, and don’t require any direct payments, then what do you expect?

US colleges, on the other hand, are considered to be good overall. They do the opposite: they don’t force you to go there; they don’t tell you which school you have to attend; they don’t tell you what you have to major in, and you have to pay directly for some of the costs. Get it?

When I began my AmeriCorps Service year, the above statement was my motivation. I wanted to “be the change”. During my service year I tutored 35 GED students, watched the first male in an immigrant household graduate highschool, Mentored 100′s of kids battling with addiction, walked with two girls as they forgave their rapist, planted 450 native plants along a salmon habitat, restored a historical site, built a single mom a house, raised $13,000 for a skate park, Built a community dog park, helped foster and home 250 unwanted pets and fulfilled my desire to SERVE!

Those of you who have served with AmeriCorps, and have disliked your term of service. The BLAME lies on your own head. If you were sitting around doing nothing, why didn’t you go OUT THERE and Find some one who needed help?

Your service year is what YOU make it. You can choose to use your hands for service or for blogging to the world about how you failed the rest of us by NOT making this experience all that it can be.

Meanwhile, I will serve my community and enjoy every minute!

I really do HOPE he finds out something really soon.

Kids need to learn that money isn’t water, it’s not air – and while there is an abundance of it, it should be and MUST be carefully budgeted and tracked. Sure every kid needs to have fun. That’s part of being a kid right? But in schools we teach drug education, sex education and even driver’s education but not a single class on financial education.

Over 75% of kid’s graduate high school without the basic understanding of how to use a checkbook or how credit cards work – even worse these same kids often graduate college with at least $10,000.00 of credit card debt.

Our schools aren’t going to teach our kids about money, our country isn’t going to teach our kids about money – if our children are going to learn about how to use money and be good at it, we , the parents are going to have to do it.

Monetary responsibility is a sure sign of mental maturity. Plain and simple – if a kid careful and smart with his money, no matter how much he or she has, that same kid is much less likely to be a problem in society.

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