Don't Mind The Haters

During a April 27th press conference the President of the United States appeared in front of the White House and the rest of the world to release his birth certificate, to prove that he was born in America. You may be asking why this has been brought into the spotlight instead of all the major problems our government has been having to deal with. It was brought to attention due to a conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in America. It has been a conspiracy for a while but ever since multi-million dollar hoss, big-time celebrity (and possible 2012 Presidential candidate) Donald Trump started promoting the conspiracy did it muster up the need for President Obama to squelch it. Honestly, I think this is so wrong to be using a precious White House press conference to simply disprove a conspiracy, instead of discussing major problems that need to be sorted out. Budget cuts? New national security? The economy is having some problems not to mention, you think those would need to be discussed? 

Conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories, they have and will always exist, people are always going to question things, and I honestly think President Obama has much bigger things to worry about than trying to disprove them. It might have been important because of Donald Trump’s interest to run for presidency in 2012, but i honestly think that Trump’s just using this whole thing as a promotional tool. Obama should know better than that to go along with that, especially in such a problematic time like this were press conferences are precious. This whole “questioning the President’s legitimacy” ruse is only trying to cause a stir, and should be ignored, and it disappoints me that our President will fall for that. This is a time where President Obama really needs to focus on the problems at hand, for the country’s sake.

America, You Have No Discipline When it Comes to Education: Response

In response to Tran's past post "After reading your post about the educational system I couldn't agree more with you about the whole inexperienced teacher problem, and I would like to vent to you. Throughout my middle school and high school career I have had many coaches as teachers, and I've realized that most of them should just be coaches. Most of my classes with coaches were "blow-off" classes where the teacher did not really care about the class he just wanted to pass so he/she wouldn't get in trouble. In some cases such as electives I can see that as almost acceptable but when it comes to core subjects (english, math, science, etc.) it is inexcusable. The duties of teaching such important classes should not be put into the hands of coaches, who it is not their expertise.
When such subjects that are tested on every year are not taken seriously then scores on these tests will drop, sometimes it is not the students fault but the teacher. I agree that the coaches should stick to sports and we should hire people that we truly find qualified to teach our students such valuable subjects. After all they are going to need all the preparation they can get for the tough college professors."

We Need to Try Harder

As far as political issues, our beloved country can often have too many to count, but one issue that must be addressed is of course our public educational system. I believe our educational system is going to need some changes if America wants to stay on top of the food chain. As it seems how we are the unofficial "head honcho" of the world we need an public education system that is the best in the world as well. I honestly think its pretty messed up right now.

For example, when I graduated in 2010 I walked the graduation stage with a lot of kids I honestly believe did not deserve to graduate. Most of these kids had horrible attendance and no respect for our public school system, but I think it is a hard system to respect though. Kids with two many absences were scheduled "make-up hours" in which they would have to come to the school and make up the hours they missed that were over the limit. The thing that makes this half-assed is that most kids did not even attend these things, or had so many it would be impossible to make up for it, but our school still passes the kids because the school receives money for each student graduated, they do not care about the students. They do not care about teaching kids responsibility and discipline as they want is the money, so I believe that should be more strict. 

I also believe that teaching should a more elite profession, I have had countless teachers who have had no idea what they are doing, and when they are responsible for preparing our students for the real world, it is real important that they leave the right impression. We need more qualified individuals, I do not care if Ms. Apple has been working at the school for 30+ years if she is a bad teacher she needs to be replaced. If we want to get rid of our "dumb american" stereotype we are going to need to make some changes in our public educational system. Not enough of our kids are prepared and more likely to fail than succeed in the gram scheme of things, and the children are the future of our great country.