Comments on: Texas Blog Sequel

By: Austin dwi

Austin dwi — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:51:30 +0000

I am really pleasedto see that you are putting so much of effort for encouraging the readers with valueable posts like this, I have sent this post to my twitter account.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:13:53 +0000

Time to have a reality check. It’s not just Texas that has forgotten about its youngest American citizens, it is the US as a whole. Countries like China and France are putting more monies into Education and development of their most valued “assets”, their children! Technology is the future, the 21st Century is driven by it and will continue to be and w/out the proper learning of said Technology and Math, Science, etc, our country may no longer lead the world in positive growth for the future.

By: Theresa

Theresa — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:31:30 +0000

If putting this informaiton out there generates controversy, so be it. Hopefully is will generate action. Americans are very good about helping others in a time of crisis, but what is forgotten is our own crisis, caring for our children.

By: Mike Tikkanen

Mike Tikkanen — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:13:29 +0000

If we agree that Texas needs to “pay more attention to the needs of poor children”, how is it we end up not agreeing that it takes an investment in children’s education, healthcare, and community?

It is stunning to me that people who most loudly proclaim their religious beliefs are the same people most unwilling to part with anything to help poor children.

Texas is one of the states that fought hardest to get sex education out of its schools. It now has more teen pregnancies than any other state in the nation.

Dan is right about addressing the overall health of the society; and it starts with supporting education and lifting children out of poverty (then there would be fewer preteen moms and adolescent felons in Texas).

By: Dan Arnold

Dan Arnold — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:32:52 +0000

I agree that Texas needs to pay more attention to the needs of children, especially impoverished children. I feel that the attrition rate in the education systom needs to be addressed as it is directly related to the early years in the classroom. However I will not be politically correct. There are far too many children born into situations where they receive very little nurturing and instruction in appropriate behaviour at home, so they are unprepared to be students in a classroom. This is especially true in impoverished areas. These children enter the school system because the law requires it. They get NO support of their education at home. This feeds into the cycle where the student does not value education because it is not or was not valued at home. Young girls become prgnant because our society and their particular subculture do not value moral teaching, preferring to stress the importnace of “safe” sex. These girls become the mothers of multiple children by various young men who also dropped out of school to persue “other interests” that land them on the welfare line or in jail. We have to consider the social implications and expense of the decline of morality in our country. We took the bibles out of the classrooms and let the drugs, sex and violence in. Certainly poverty breeds poverty, but to expect any state to solve the problem without addressing the overall health of the social norms of the society, the culture and the subcultures is unrealistic. Simply throwing money at it will not substantively change anything.