http://www.one.org/blog/2009/05/15/the-big-read-why-them/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.one.org/blog/2009/05/15/the-big-read-why-them/#comment-562845 Charles Henry Atkinson Sat, 16 May 2009 02:39:43 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=5588#comment-562845 When will the USA reform its antiquated public educational system and adopt something that can compete with 3rd world countries? What we have now is a funnel to the juvenile justice system, which feed the criminal justice system and bolsters the fastest growing industry in America..., prisons. First we need to correct the 13th Amendment (please read it, don't take my word for this) reform this travesty of justice that makes more criminals perpetual loop and end this self serving for its own existance business. Reform the way our police, judges, prisons and public schools produce criminals instead of true reforms. And finally, lets end slavery in America. Why have the public defenders budgets all but disappeared everywhere? If the system were truly working we should need less police, judges, courts, lawyers and prisons... When will the USA reform its antiquated public educational system and adopt something that can compete with 3rd world countries? What we have now is a funnel to the juvenile justice system, which feed the criminal justice system and bolsters the fastest growing industry in America…, prisons. First we need to correct the 13th Amendment (please read it, don’t take my word for this) reform this travesty of justice that makes more criminals perpetual loop and end this self serving for its own existance business. Reform the way our police, judges, prisons and public schools produce criminals instead of true reforms. And finally, lets end slavery in America. Why have the public defenders budgets all but disappeared everywhere? If the system were truly working we should need less police, judges, courts, lawyers and prisons…

]]> http://www.one.org/blog/2009/05/15/the-big-read-why-them/#comment-562840 Darlene Fri, 15 May 2009 23:03:33 +0000 http://www.one.org/blog/?p=5588#comment-562840 I like that the author of this piece recognizes the importance of looking beyond borders to the global arena. In essence, we truly are our brothers keeper. If all individuals in human communities everywhere on earth felt a commitment to the kind of justice and equality the author spoke of, that justice and equality that most assuredly belongs to every single human and not just the richest among us, this world would see a profound change. THAT is the change we globally need, have needed and will need. For a world to change, those of us who call ourselves adults must provide all children - of the entire planet - the role modeling for this dire change we need. The American Indians, collectively, believe children must be thought in terms of the future of humanity and therefore, thought in terms of thousands of years ahead in their care-taking of children. They understood the many faceted human impact upon the earth in the present and for futures. We could emulate them no less in caring for a future humanity and a planet to sustain them. There's so much to be done and as the old saying went, so few hands to do it. Change is good. Lets do it. We have no other choices as the world is now so imperiled on so many levels. We have to think ahead and we have to change so much. It won't be done in even one or two generations, but our generation is at the most drastic point for imperative changes. Education of all children (the future) is one of the most important of our imperatives. We must not wait around for someone else to do what we each must do individually as well as collectively. Although not a teacher, some child (maybe more) will remember something I did or said that he/she will never forget and may use in their adulthood. May that remembrance be something that helped them and their world. I like that the author of this piece recognizes the importance of looking beyond borders to the global arena. In essence, we truly are our brothers keeper. If all individuals in human communities everywhere on earth felt a commitment to the kind of justice and equality the author spoke of, that justice and equality that most assuredly belongs to every single human and not just the richest among us, this world would see a profound change. THAT is the change we globally need, have needed and will need. For a world to change, those of us who call ourselves adults must provide all children – of the entire planet – the role modeling for this dire change we need. The American Indians, collectively, believe children must be thought in terms of the future of humanity and therefore, thought in terms of thousands of years ahead in their care-taking of children. They understood the many faceted human impact upon the earth in the present and for futures. We could emulate them no less in caring for a future humanity and a planet to sustain them. There’s so much to be done and as the old saying went, so few hands to do it. Change is good. Lets do it. We have no other choices as the world is now so imperiled on so many levels. We have to think ahead and we have to change so much. It won’t be done in even one or two generations, but our generation is at the most drastic point for imperative changes. Education of all children (the future) is one of the most important of our imperatives. We must not wait around for someone else to do what we each must do individually as well as collectively. Although not a teacher, some child (maybe more) will remember something I did or said that he/she will never forget and may use in their adulthood. May that remembrance be something that helped them and their world.

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