My beloved politicians,
I am writing to you because you are a democratically elected Government Official by We, The People; and we elected you because we trust you, because we believe that you will do the right thing for the citizens that elected you as well as for those who did not vote for you, and because we believe that you are the best person for the job. But we also elected you because we think and deeply believe that you do understand our issues, needs, and concerns, and also because you swore to put your best effort forward on behalf of all of us, and to do the best you can do to help to resolve and mitigate the concerns we, the people, have.
I am writing this letter with the fantasized hope that we can get help from you, and because I am an overwhelmingly optimistic dreamer, however, you should know that it is too late for me to be helped, so I am doing this for the rest. I know that you know, and I know that and you are fully aware of the many other citizens that are getting harmed and battered by the mortgage sickness, so I am asking for your attention to this matter, and for your helping hand in our defense. We citizens really need you, and after exhausting every single possibility, we do not have any other place to turn for help but you, and this is because we still believe in public weal. So, please finish reading this letter and then, please do just what your heart and conscience dictates you.
I know this is a very long letter, but because I spent over 2 years dealing with the issue herewith explained until I was duly dishonestly and illegitimately executed by CitiMortgage with total exemption from punishment or loss or escape from fines for them; I beg for a few minutes of your valuable time and consideration, and I will truly appreciate if you read this letter in full. This document might look like a manifest, but it started as a most simple, heart-felt letter to you. I am broke due to an unwanted heart attack that put me out of commission for over a year and a half, and the economy has done the rest making me unable to find a job. Been broke, I did not have the money necessary to buy justice through a high-price ticket lawyer, so this is my effort to reach for the sky on behalf of others.
The banking industry is robbing people not only of their homes, but of their dignity, of their families, of their dreams, and of their futures. The mortgage industry does not care one bit for the people who constantly put abundant profits in their deep, unappeasable pockets. I know this is not new, but the banking greed has now turned into a virulent social mugging. There are millions of people trying to salvage their homes in a futile attempt to negotiate their mortgages with these pointless banks, but at not avail because the banks hide cowardly behind a mob with no names, no direct phones, no emails, no addresses, no faces, no responsibilities, and no concerns. I have tried everything and anything to help my case besides the obvious and standard, and I also consulted my crystal ball, I rubbed frenetically Aladdin's lamp, I went to the local mysterious old lady palm reader, I consulted with my neighborhood's strange and peculiar clairvoyant, I tried serendipity even in the shower, and I even tried to talk to "the hand", but nothing worked. No one takes responsibility for the consumer, not one at all. The banks are neither willing nor interested in negotiating anything with anyone. As matter of fact, foreclosures turned to be an excellent business for these pilfers.
Do you ever wonder why the level of foreclosures is in direct proportion to the bankruptcy filing rate? Those two are the fattest dossiers of our financial woes. Oh, say can you see, what's going on in your backyard? Perhaps because I am just one lone citizen freaking out about losing his home does not accredit your attention, and it certainly cannot compete with the intricate problems you might be handling now during your office tenure, and I am certainly not a matter of national security, but it is not just one citizen's desperate howl... we are millions of them.
What happened to the theory of Due Process? The Due Process it is supposed to be the principle by which the government must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person according to the law. Due process holds the government subservient to the law of the land, protecting individual persons from the state and domestic enemies such as banks and mortgage companies. Where on earth this right got lost for the American Citizens?
I will not bore you with the countless stories of repulsive deceitfulness about citizens being assailed by banks and mortgage companies because, I'm sure, you don't have room for more mortgage rubbish. I cannot handle the mortgage bankers anymore simply because I am not a snake handler. Yes, banks are destroying us Americans. It is a simple as you looking around and seeing what banks are doing to your constituency, the constituency that elected you for all the right reasons!
I am appalled by the display of disturbing, disheartening, mendacious, and autocratic behavior of the financial terrorists called banks and mortgage companies. Their acts reveal a total lack of intellectual dishonesty, and the unreserved disregard for the moral and professional integrity that would be expected from these institutions.
In my book, professional functions are supposed to be carried out with responsibility, education, and foremost, with honesty. Education is not luck, and to lead in business, banks have to have an earned capacity to be able to do so. Random actions such as the ones perpetrated by this industry without this primal principle are a detrimental irresponsibility, and their slothful behavior is not only unfair and unacceptable, but it is also offensive and it is a disservice to the American citizens and to our government, including you.
Banks have honored and ratified the principle of "Absurdum est ut alios regat, qui seipsum regere nescit" (it is absurd for a man who should rule others who knows not how to rule himself). It is patent that some individuals who run the banking industry still struggling with the concept of morally walking erect, and they never open their mouth without severely subtracting from the sum of human dignity. I frankly find the bank's attitude criminal and their languorous behavior of barbaric immaturity and an academic deceitfulness; providing of course that any "intellectual" value is involved in their actions and those of their posse.
I am very disappointed by the banks and mortgage companies, however not surprised. I hope there is some kind of accountability somewhere in our country and perhaps in the minds of some of our leaders (such as yourself), because if not, we have nowhere else to turn to for help. These organizations have been for years already in the public eye for evasive accountability, thoughtfulness inertia, insensible stance, despotic financial slavery and discrimination, relentless greed, persistent financial gluttony, and just flat laziness towards its moral and professional responsibilities. Citimortgage is at the bleeding edge of the American financial slavery.
Banks are not obliged to do business with anyone they do not want to do business with, based on whatever reason they might grip upon, but they have a fiduciary responsibility to treat citizens with respect, and at least to abide by the rules of civilized people. We do not appreciate or merit their undeserving, diminishing, and insulting treatment, and perhaps it is a bad idea anyway for us to be associated with such bodies of the nature which banks represent. Now that I have been (apparently) defeated by one of these dishonest institutions such as the dishonest and autocratic CitiMortgage Company, I am making my crusade to create eclectic public awareness about these institutions' actions and abuses, and about the club of henchmen of their lineup. CitiMortgage lies. I have my conversations with this mobster recorded under the same rights they recorded mine. These recordings are an unequivocal proof of their blatant lies.
In case someone could have forgotten this, the US Attorney's Office mission is to enforce vigorously the federal criminal laws of the United States, to represent effectively the interests of the United States in civil litigation, and to meet fully the public safety needs and fairness to the community through an efficient, well-coordinated law enforcement effort, and to contend with the business exocanibalistic attitude and actions perpetrated by dysfunctional inmates of the circuses in the vein of the mentally castrated institutions such as the banks and mortgage companies. I say this brandishing my sparkly clean Constitutional Right of Free Speech.
I truly believe hope that someone within the US Justice Department might have some spare time to look into these abuses. I do not expect you (or anyone really!) to agree with me on this, I am fast-holding to the illusory hope that this letter will make someone to reorganize their mind-set, and help the American Citizens that are being victimized by the banks and mortgage joints.
What saddens me the most is that we fought a horrible, bloody, and iconoclastic war, brother against brother in our own house, and all what we obtained from that sad chapter of mayhem was to change the word "slave" for the word "homeowner". Most recently, we suffered 9-11-01 at the spineless hands of international terrorists, but they were unable to bring us down, and we still stand tall and united, however, the banking system did bring us down to our knees, and we are still licking the ground with their foot firmly sited on the back of our heads. These domestic financial terrorist destroyed our stability with their selfish, irresponsible, and criminal behavior; and they continue doing so. A traitor among us can do more damage than a thousand from outside.
Perhaps I am just a voice in the wilderness, but if so, I can yell here at the top of my lungs. I have only been in this country for a mere 30 years plus, and I still don't understand some really weird things. We jail some criminals, but we bail out others. Hum... it must be that democracy/politics thingy that I still can't comprehend quite yet. It is perhaps because I lived too long in a dictatorship, and some of these concepts are still foreign to me.
As for me, I was forced by a dirty bank to file bankruptcy with absolutely no need for it (did I mentioned CitiMortgage?), I am losing my home and house, my family is getting destroyed emotionally, and after being without a job or an opportunity (courtesy of our vainglorious economy) at my old age, I am walking at a nippy pace to poverty, my future looks pretty bleak now, and my American Dream is now a dreadful and frightful nightmare. However my dear government official, I am a die-hard fighter and I never, never surrender!, and I will stand proud and tall for my family and my country no matter how deep humiliation sinks me, and I will do battle with anything and anyone, and I will fight tirelessly for my family's future against all odds (including the banking industry). So, if you have the wish or time for it, and you can help me out, please do, otherwise; please worry about the others.
One more thing, though. I might have been born somewhere else, but I am "American Made" with a copious reserve of blood as red as anyone born in this wonderful land, and yes, I am a patriotic citizen to the marrow of the bone. Patriotism does not require one to agree with everything that our country does, and by using this letter, I am attempting to promote analytical questioning and devotion to the common good in a quest to make our country the best it possibly can be.
Thank you for reading my long and idiosyncratic letter. At this point, I am just asking you to please help us, and if you can, help to prevent from disaster the next victims lined up at the bank's death row. Please do it. We were there when Uncle Sam needed us, so please Uncle Sam; be here for us now, because we really need you now. I still have faith in our government; please do not prove me wrong.
Post Scriptum: My economical demise was not caused by the banks or the mortgage companies, neither was originated from the bad economy, or by the world recession; my financial demise was solely provoked by my heart attack. However, I did not want the forcefully uncalled-for, un-deserved, and despotic blind repression from this turncoat of CitiMortgage to finish me off.
Sincerely,
A underprivileged citizen
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Showing posts with label responsibility. Show all posts
Showing posts with label responsibility. Show all posts
Can you buy responsibility?
Dear parents,
I am writing you this letter because our school, as many others in this area; is failing miserably. Mostly, I write to you out of my dismay and disconcert because I can't find any visible trace of parent’s responsibility, involvement, and accountability in their children’s education; and I want to pass on you my entrenched concerns.
We are parents of three wonderful children, and we love them with all the power of our existences. All of them are attending to different schools and preparing diligently themselves the best they can for the defying challenges of their life ahead. My wife and I have been involved actively in our children’s education and in their schools since day one as much as our busy lives permits, and this is because we faithfully believe that education with accountability is effective and beneficial; and education without this primal principle is a detrimental irresponsibility, and the best recipe for the ignominy of your unsuspecting children.
Today we have an imperative and fundamental crisis with education at our schools. This issue takes precedence to any other issue in the life of our children, however, this critical issue affects your child directly more than anyone else at our school. This letter is an appeal to you, parent, and is the only warning I can offer you for the upcoming perils in your child’s immediate and long term future.
Most school's administration vision for your children's education is very simple. The school administration, teachers, and educators are doing everything possible at their disposal to provide your child with the best, the most complete, safest, and loving education possible, and they waste no time, efforts, or resources in doing so. Some responsible parents are involved as well providing support and helping with this effort of utmost importance on behalf of your children and the outcome of their education.
When I say “some responsible parents”, I really mean that, just some responsible parents. During the past five years I have been able to see a sad and miserable average of about 5% of the parents attending important activities at school. In one of our schools, and perhaps in yours too, we have close to 500 families with children attending to their education; however, the Semper Absent parents have showed me graphically, time and again; that they don’t give a hoot about their children’s education.
This might sound harsh, inappropriate, ruthless, or even insolent to you, and that is fine with me because, frankly I don’t care! A healthy and vigorous dosage of reality will not kill you or anyone, and I hope reality captures your attention. I am not here today to praise and ignore your irresponsibility and negligent attitude towards your children’s education. I am not here to teach you how to be a parent, or to tell you that you are doing a great job with your children’s education, because you are not, because you are doing a terrible job, because you are doing it all wrong, and because you are providing the highest level of disservice to your, beloved I hope, children.
I don’t care if you like or not my lecture to you because this sermon is not directed to all parents, is directed to the ones that have dropped and ditched their parental responsibility and accountability; and you know who you are. To those few parents that have taken their parental responsibility with involvement and accountability at school, I do not need to thank you for what is our obligation and our fiduciary responsibility to our children, because you understand and embrace these basic principles as such, and because you are involved dearly in your children’s education. You also know who you are.
Yes, I am angry, aggravated, frustrated, and awfully disappointed of most of our parents at our school for their manifest lack of parental responsibility, absence of involvement, evasive accountability, intellectual dishonesty, thoughtfulness inertia, insensible stance, and just flat laziness towards the most crucial time of great consequence to the fragile lives of your children: their education. I just greatly dislike players with the wrong color shirt!
If you think you are a responsible, accountable, and a loving parent, you have to show it! Sixty percent of success resides solely in showing up! Parents must be involved at all levels in the education of their own children, and that is not negotiable. We personally, are far from being perfect parents, but we honestly strive to be the best, we spare no efforts in trying to improve, we take with lethal responsibility the future of our kids, and we show up in their education process as much as we can possibly do.
One of the schools where one of our children is attending to is now in a perilous, delicate, and perhaps terminal path. Other schools in the area are quickly spiraling their way down to failure, and many others have already reached the dark point of no return. We are not there yet, but we are closing on it as quick as hyenas close on their pray, and the gap between starting to fail and total and irreversible catastrophe is very, very narrow now. Some schools are so desperate and in such state of uncontrolled panic to avoid general educational bankruptcy, that have resorted to pay the children to improve!
I have been following the many publications made over time on the theme of rewarding students financially for improved scores, and I am appalled and saddened of what I have read so far.
I am all for incentivizing kids to do better at school and helping them to realize their dreams and ambitions, but backhanding them with deceptive, illusory, and undermining practices to procure their performance it is flat wrong. These rituals may bring tremendous debauching moral and social consequences instead of success. What happened to the old principle of the benefits of self-improving? What happened to truthfully earning your life? What happened to deserve a prominent site in the society warranted by effort, honesty, and respect?
When I was a student, my parents incentivized me to do well in school so I could become a self-sufficient, honest, and a good contributing citizen, but above all; for myself and for my own happiness. Education will help anyone to enjoy the financial and principled benefits a more educated and responsible professional could aspire to, and to be an essential mechanism of the direct cause of improving future generations and the society your children will construct.
We need to get back to basics. Respected and honest citizens do not build their careers in a jail path. Some of our kids need to become less slothful and get a hold of responsibility, they need to become less lazy and embrace their duties and obligations as well; they need to acquire a sense of reality, and we parents, have a fiduciary duty and an obligated responsibility to their future and education. Exercise it! What are you waiting for? Who is in charge in your household?
At our school, we have a great and solid educational base, a caring and prepared scholastic team, a responsible and responsive administration, and a few preoccupied and contributing parents. We need to do more for our kids, however, not all the responsibility of your children's education rests on the shoulders of the school. The school is an important, but a mere instrument to aid you with your children’s education. It is not the responsibility, nor the obligation of the school to raise and educate your children. Education is 100% parent’s obligation... for those responsible parents that is.
A change in the governance of your responsibilities will provide accountability and progress. What that has to do with the performance of your children in school? Well, accountability is about everything, and about each and every single aspect in life. If you are not accountable, you will not have a good outcome at the end of the journey. If we parents do not provide accountability for the education of our children, their lives will not come out right, or they will not be competent in our gung ho society.
The administrative and docent team at our school along with providing accountability, they try really hard to engage parents and the community to support the educational system, and your children's education. We parents ought to be more responsive. We have to be.
How can I help to put the challenge of the education of our children back into the parent’s conscience? Well I am trying this way now! I hear and see a lot of debate about teachers, principals, resources, tests, evaluations, and efforts of the school on behalf of our children, but I really think that it is time to put an equal or greater amount of debate around the parent’s responsibility, involvement, and accountability in their children's education.
Parents have to play a major and a more responsible role in here, and be the unconditional advocates of their children! The Principal and the team of our school are always looking at ways to maximize parental involvement because this is important in order to engage progressively our children in a more meaningful way; but unfortunately the parents don't care, they do not want to be involved.
You do not have to be always there, you do not have to attend all the meetings, you do not have to volunteer all the time, and you do not have to contribute permanently. You just need to try a little harder than you are doing now.
Ask yourselves, how many times have I sat with my children to do homework? How many times I have reviewed their homework? How many times I have talked to my children’s teacher about their performance? How many times I have offered to my children help with the school work? How many times I have attended to an important meeting at school? How many times I have volunteered time to help with their school activities? How many times I have questioned their performance? How many times I have offered help instead complaints? How many times I have questioned my contribution to their education? How many times I have been too unconcern and lazy to do something responsible about my children education? How many times I have offered advise instead of empty whining? How many times I have failed them? I hope you are counting… This is why I am in such wrath.
What education really is? Education encompasses both the teaching and learning of knowledge, proper conduct, and technical competency. It thus focuses on the cultivation of skills, trades or professions, as well as mental, moral, and aesthetic development. Formal education consists of systematic instruction, teaching, and training by professional teachers. This consists of the application of pedagogy and the development of curricula. In a liberal education tradition, teachers draw on many different disciplines for their lessons, including psychology, philosophy, linguistics, biology, and sociology. Teachers in specialized professions such as astrophysics, law, or zoology may teach only in a narrow area, usually as professors at institutions of higher learning. There is much specialist instruction in fields of trade for those who want specific skills, such as required to be a pilot, for example. Finally, there is an array of educational opportunities in the informal sphere; and for this reason society subsidizes institutions such as museums and libraries. Informal education also includes knowledge and skills learned and refined during the course of life, including education that comes from experience in practicing a profession.
The right to education has been described as a fundamental human right: since 1952, Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education. At world level, the United Nations' International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966 guarantees this right under its Article 13, and blah, blah, blah, and more blah!…. And if you do not believe me, look it up in Wikipedia! You don't need this crap to understand that education is of nuclear importance to your children!
What your children’s education it really comes down to is all of the above, and to parent’s responsibility, involvement, and accountability.
Parent’s responsibility, involvement and accountability in their children’s education it is not an easy task, and as a matter of fact, it is so difficult, that many of our children are failing today in school, and the saddest fact it is that failure will affect only them, and in a more direct way than you think it could. Education is “our” job, parents with the support of the school. Most children are not guilty of failing; we are a great quota in the cause of their collapse.
I also acknowledge that people has complicated and busy lives. There are plenty of reasons and excuses: single parents, too many jobs to make ends meet, too many obligations, too many activities, too many responsibilities, to many worries, too many family members, too many problems, too many distressed homes, too many sicknesses, too many demanding jobs, too many economic blues, too many tears, too many tired people, too many preoccupations, too many endless days, and too many of everything all of the time, and there is just so much you can take in.
If you are already making an effort to participate, and you are doing what you can to aid your children’s education by getting involved in it, I thank you sincerely from the bottom of my heart which is deep, solid, and tremendously wide. Believe me, I am with you on this, however, we are talking about our kids here. They trust us and love us, and they blindly believe in their young hearts and pristine souls that we are doing the absolute best we can for them. Let’s not deceive them. Although deception is an intrinsic part of our lives, been deceived by an enemy can never compare to been deceived by someone who is supposed to loved us. That, dear parents, is high treason.
I promise you that the journey will be long, strenuous, and bitter many times. It will be full of impossible moments, with plenty of sacrifices, plagued with frustrating interludes, and paved with disenchantments, but at the sweet end, the rewards will be infinite! In the future (which is coming real fast at you!) you will be able to feel and say that you were part master crafter of those bright and successful lives of your children, or you not have other remedy that to concede that you contributed largely to their demise, and you have perpetuated mediocrity within mediocrity in their lives due to your parental inertia. It is your responsibility and duty to choose the outcome of this simple riddle.
As for my wife and I, we will continue to support and do whatever we can to help with our children’s education in all levels, in the schools, at home, and within the family and the community. I could talk to you for at least three days uninterruptedly about parent’s responsibility, involvement, and accountability in their children’s education, but I wanted to give you just a glance of what is in my scorching mind today.
If you got enraged and mad at me because of what you have read in my letter, perhaps is just because you have inadvertently, but consciously admitted guiltiness, otherwise you will agree with me. I hope you think about this and join in helping the school, the administration, the teachers, and most important of all, your beloved children. If you don't do it now, you will never have another chance.
And one more thing... I certainly did take the time to write this to you, and to pour my frustration in this pamphlet because I do care about my children and I do care about yours too; after all, they are all citizens under the same flag. As for my children, they are doing wonderful in spite of their surroundings, because education is nothing but what you make of it. I am not worried at all for my children, and I beg you pardon for my impudent and perhaps insolent nosiness, but I am tremendously worried about yours.
Thank you.
I am writing you this letter because our school, as many others in this area; is failing miserably. Mostly, I write to you out of my dismay and disconcert because I can't find any visible trace of parent’s responsibility, involvement, and accountability in their children’s education; and I want to pass on you my entrenched concerns.
We are parents of three wonderful children, and we love them with all the power of our existences. All of them are attending to different schools and preparing diligently themselves the best they can for the defying challenges of their life ahead. My wife and I have been involved actively in our children’s education and in their schools since day one as much as our busy lives permits, and this is because we faithfully believe that education with accountability is effective and beneficial; and education without this primal principle is a detrimental irresponsibility, and the best recipe for the ignominy of your unsuspecting children.
Today we have an imperative and fundamental crisis with education at our schools. This issue takes precedence to any other issue in the life of our children, however, this critical issue affects your child directly more than anyone else at our school. This letter is an appeal to you, parent, and is the only warning I can offer you for the upcoming perils in your child’s immediate and long term future.
Most school's administration vision for your children's education is very simple. The school administration, teachers, and educators are doing everything possible at their disposal to provide your child with the best, the most complete, safest, and loving education possible, and they waste no time, efforts, or resources in doing so. Some responsible parents are involved as well providing support and helping with this effort of utmost importance on behalf of your children and the outcome of their education.
When I say “some responsible parents”, I really mean that, just some responsible parents. During the past five years I have been able to see a sad and miserable average of about 5% of the parents attending important activities at school. In one of our schools, and perhaps in yours too, we have close to 500 families with children attending to their education; however, the Semper Absent parents have showed me graphically, time and again; that they don’t give a hoot about their children’s education.
This might sound harsh, inappropriate, ruthless, or even insolent to you, and that is fine with me because, frankly I don’t care! A healthy and vigorous dosage of reality will not kill you or anyone, and I hope reality captures your attention. I am not here today to praise and ignore your irresponsibility and negligent attitude towards your children’s education. I am not here to teach you how to be a parent, or to tell you that you are doing a great job with your children’s education, because you are not, because you are doing a terrible job, because you are doing it all wrong, and because you are providing the highest level of disservice to your, beloved I hope, children.
I don’t care if you like or not my lecture to you because this sermon is not directed to all parents, is directed to the ones that have dropped and ditched their parental responsibility and accountability; and you know who you are. To those few parents that have taken their parental responsibility with involvement and accountability at school, I do not need to thank you for what is our obligation and our fiduciary responsibility to our children, because you understand and embrace these basic principles as such, and because you are involved dearly in your children’s education. You also know who you are.
Yes, I am angry, aggravated, frustrated, and awfully disappointed of most of our parents at our school for their manifest lack of parental responsibility, absence of involvement, evasive accountability, intellectual dishonesty, thoughtfulness inertia, insensible stance, and just flat laziness towards the most crucial time of great consequence to the fragile lives of your children: their education. I just greatly dislike players with the wrong color shirt!
If you think you are a responsible, accountable, and a loving parent, you have to show it! Sixty percent of success resides solely in showing up! Parents must be involved at all levels in the education of their own children, and that is not negotiable. We personally, are far from being perfect parents, but we honestly strive to be the best, we spare no efforts in trying to improve, we take with lethal responsibility the future of our kids, and we show up in their education process as much as we can possibly do.
One of the schools where one of our children is attending to is now in a perilous, delicate, and perhaps terminal path. Other schools in the area are quickly spiraling their way down to failure, and many others have already reached the dark point of no return. We are not there yet, but we are closing on it as quick as hyenas close on their pray, and the gap between starting to fail and total and irreversible catastrophe is very, very narrow now. Some schools are so desperate and in such state of uncontrolled panic to avoid general educational bankruptcy, that have resorted to pay the children to improve!
I have been following the many publications made over time on the theme of rewarding students financially for improved scores, and I am appalled and saddened of what I have read so far.
I am all for incentivizing kids to do better at school and helping them to realize their dreams and ambitions, but backhanding them with deceptive, illusory, and undermining practices to procure their performance it is flat wrong. These rituals may bring tremendous debauching moral and social consequences instead of success. What happened to the old principle of the benefits of self-improving? What happened to truthfully earning your life? What happened to deserve a prominent site in the society warranted by effort, honesty, and respect?
When I was a student, my parents incentivized me to do well in school so I could become a self-sufficient, honest, and a good contributing citizen, but above all; for myself and for my own happiness. Education will help anyone to enjoy the financial and principled benefits a more educated and responsible professional could aspire to, and to be an essential mechanism of the direct cause of improving future generations and the society your children will construct.
We need to get back to basics. Respected and honest citizens do not build their careers in a jail path. Some of our kids need to become less slothful and get a hold of responsibility, they need to become less lazy and embrace their duties and obligations as well; they need to acquire a sense of reality, and we parents, have a fiduciary duty and an obligated responsibility to their future and education. Exercise it! What are you waiting for? Who is in charge in your household?
At our school, we have a great and solid educational base, a caring and prepared scholastic team, a responsible and responsive administration, and a few preoccupied and contributing parents. We need to do more for our kids, however, not all the responsibility of your children's education rests on the shoulders of the school. The school is an important, but a mere instrument to aid you with your children’s education. It is not the responsibility, nor the obligation of the school to raise and educate your children. Education is 100% parent’s obligation... for those responsible parents that is.
A change in the governance of your responsibilities will provide accountability and progress. What that has to do with the performance of your children in school? Well, accountability is about everything, and about each and every single aspect in life. If you are not accountable, you will not have a good outcome at the end of the journey. If we parents do not provide accountability for the education of our children, their lives will not come out right, or they will not be competent in our gung ho society.
The administrative and docent team at our school along with providing accountability, they try really hard to engage parents and the community to support the educational system, and your children's education. We parents ought to be more responsive. We have to be.
How can I help to put the challenge of the education of our children back into the parent’s conscience? Well I am trying this way now! I hear and see a lot of debate about teachers, principals, resources, tests, evaluations, and efforts of the school on behalf of our children, but I really think that it is time to put an equal or greater amount of debate around the parent’s responsibility, involvement, and accountability in their children's education.
Parents have to play a major and a more responsible role in here, and be the unconditional advocates of their children! The Principal and the team of our school are always looking at ways to maximize parental involvement because this is important in order to engage progressively our children in a more meaningful way; but unfortunately the parents don't care, they do not want to be involved.
You do not have to be always there, you do not have to attend all the meetings, you do not have to volunteer all the time, and you do not have to contribute permanently. You just need to try a little harder than you are doing now.
Ask yourselves, how many times have I sat with my children to do homework? How many times I have reviewed their homework? How many times I have talked to my children’s teacher about their performance? How many times I have offered to my children help with the school work? How many times I have attended to an important meeting at school? How many times I have volunteered time to help with their school activities? How many times I have questioned their performance? How many times I have offered help instead complaints? How many times I have questioned my contribution to their education? How many times I have been too unconcern and lazy to do something responsible about my children education? How many times I have offered advise instead of empty whining? How many times I have failed them? I hope you are counting… This is why I am in such wrath.
What education really is? Education encompasses both the teaching and learning of knowledge, proper conduct, and technical competency. It thus focuses on the cultivation of skills, trades or professions, as well as mental, moral, and aesthetic development. Formal education consists of systematic instruction, teaching, and training by professional teachers. This consists of the application of pedagogy and the development of curricula. In a liberal education tradition, teachers draw on many different disciplines for their lessons, including psychology, philosophy, linguistics, biology, and sociology. Teachers in specialized professions such as astrophysics, law, or zoology may teach only in a narrow area, usually as professors at institutions of higher learning. There is much specialist instruction in fields of trade for those who want specific skills, such as required to be a pilot, for example. Finally, there is an array of educational opportunities in the informal sphere; and for this reason society subsidizes institutions such as museums and libraries. Informal education also includes knowledge and skills learned and refined during the course of life, including education that comes from experience in practicing a profession.
The right to education has been described as a fundamental human right: since 1952, Article 2 of the first Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights obliges all signatory parties to guarantee the right to education. At world level, the United Nations' International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966 guarantees this right under its Article 13, and blah, blah, blah, and more blah!…. And if you do not believe me, look it up in Wikipedia! You don't need this crap to understand that education is of nuclear importance to your children!
What your children’s education it really comes down to is all of the above, and to parent’s responsibility, involvement, and accountability.
Parent’s responsibility, involvement and accountability in their children’s education it is not an easy task, and as a matter of fact, it is so difficult, that many of our children are failing today in school, and the saddest fact it is that failure will affect only them, and in a more direct way than you think it could. Education is “our” job, parents with the support of the school. Most children are not guilty of failing; we are a great quota in the cause of their collapse.
I also acknowledge that people has complicated and busy lives. There are plenty of reasons and excuses: single parents, too many jobs to make ends meet, too many obligations, too many activities, too many responsibilities, to many worries, too many family members, too many problems, too many distressed homes, too many sicknesses, too many demanding jobs, too many economic blues, too many tears, too many tired people, too many preoccupations, too many endless days, and too many of everything all of the time, and there is just so much you can take in.
If you are already making an effort to participate, and you are doing what you can to aid your children’s education by getting involved in it, I thank you sincerely from the bottom of my heart which is deep, solid, and tremendously wide. Believe me, I am with you on this, however, we are talking about our kids here. They trust us and love us, and they blindly believe in their young hearts and pristine souls that we are doing the absolute best we can for them. Let’s not deceive them. Although deception is an intrinsic part of our lives, been deceived by an enemy can never compare to been deceived by someone who is supposed to loved us. That, dear parents, is high treason.
I promise you that the journey will be long, strenuous, and bitter many times. It will be full of impossible moments, with plenty of sacrifices, plagued with frustrating interludes, and paved with disenchantments, but at the sweet end, the rewards will be infinite! In the future (which is coming real fast at you!) you will be able to feel and say that you were part master crafter of those bright and successful lives of your children, or you not have other remedy that to concede that you contributed largely to their demise, and you have perpetuated mediocrity within mediocrity in their lives due to your parental inertia. It is your responsibility and duty to choose the outcome of this simple riddle.
As for my wife and I, we will continue to support and do whatever we can to help with our children’s education in all levels, in the schools, at home, and within the family and the community. I could talk to you for at least three days uninterruptedly about parent’s responsibility, involvement, and accountability in their children’s education, but I wanted to give you just a glance of what is in my scorching mind today.
If you got enraged and mad at me because of what you have read in my letter, perhaps is just because you have inadvertently, but consciously admitted guiltiness, otherwise you will agree with me. I hope you think about this and join in helping the school, the administration, the teachers, and most important of all, your beloved children. If you don't do it now, you will never have another chance.
And one more thing... I certainly did take the time to write this to you, and to pour my frustration in this pamphlet because I do care about my children and I do care about yours too; after all, they are all citizens under the same flag. As for my children, they are doing wonderful in spite of their surroundings, because education is nothing but what you make of it. I am not worried at all for my children, and I beg you pardon for my impudent and perhaps insolent nosiness, but I am tremendously worried about yours.
Thank you.
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