I am all for your cause and everything.But here is my problem.For whatever the reason maybe a lot of people seem to be going abroad to assist in that fight when we have the same problems here.I graduated high school in 1992 and now my children are in school.The schools in the polite way to say it urban areas are not made to educate the students.There are just mere day camps to say we are providing education.Most teachers don't care anymore.But yet they so-call wonder why school tragedies are on the rise.I will give you a prime example I now have a 20yr old high school drop out student and when I tell you the reason it is not an isolated incident.My daughter was supposed to graduate in 2006.At least so I thought until May of 2006 the school counselor had called and ask to see me.I was thinking it was no big deal so when I got there I did not expect to hear what I actually heard.She starts out with how my daughter is a bright girl in all the regular blah blah blah.Then she states the real reason she had summoned for me.She said your daughter will not be graduating this year.Okay with some concern and just a little alarm because I feel maybe the situation can be fixed.Oh no here is where I basically want to kill or blow up the whole school system.Your daughter has not pass an SOL test since the 9Th grade.Alright I know what you are thinking.How could you have not known?Well the answer is real simple no one informed me.Yes she has failed classes but she went to summer school and passed.Even when the report cards would come she was passing.No she was not an A B student but she had average grades for the most part.It gets better I am not one of those uninvolved parents so all the teachers knew me and we communicated frequently so I thought.I used to do pop up visits to the school sit in her class room etc.Stuff like that but yet no one had informed me of the bad SOL Tests.I can't even say it was one person because it was not.She went to Menchville High School in Newport News,Va. for 9Th-part of 10th grade then she transferred to Hampton High in Hampton,Va.Believe it or not even though in two different cities the schools were only like 15 miles apart.So neither school had informed me of such thing until a month before the child is suppose to graduate.So no I don't blame one person I blame the whole 757 area code school system of Virginia because they all work together.(They call it that because it is 7cities that are within the same little area so they worked together.)Then to all insult to injury the counselor says with a smile.They offer free GED courses at the Y.H.Thomas community center.I mean she is so far behind that it would take her 1 1/2 to 2years to graduate and I see hear she just turned 18years old.Well all in a nutshell everybody got paid for supposedly doing a job but the urban children are the ones who seem to be missing out on what they are suppose to be doing.All that talking to teachers staying in contact with the school and nobody thought to tell me the things that really counted before it got to bad to fix.I mean they would call me at home or work if she missed an assignment or if she was acting up.But no calls from these same teachers about the miss test or failed ones.So I ask you who is trying to fix the problem here?

Almost forgot,Who is going to educate the invisable children here?Who will speak out for them? 

Amen to that!

Peace & God Bless! 

"No Ordinary Jane!"