I am the least political person I know…..but..

I mean that, I am slowly learning where my natural gifts are. I won’t bore you here with what I think some of them are, but I will absolutely tell you where they are not. I am not a politician. I am not going to tell you what you want to hear. I am not going to tell you something just to get you to commit to something regardless of your own thoughts. I am pretty straight forward. If not, the blog would have “uncensored” in the title. So, let’s be sure you all understand that this is not a political discussion.

As I chatted with the various people at the conference, I was drawn to one man in particular. He is the man mentioned in the previous post who has an MBA in International Tax Law. Who knew? Chances are he is very politically opinionated but again, that’s not where I am going with this, I’m just telling you I was talking with

So, I said to him, I would move to any state in the United States for my husband to have a better job except Mississippi. He asked why of course and my answer is simple, there are just simply a chain of order. And, many people would never live in Alabama for various reasons. The order that I am speaking of here in particular is that of education.

If you live in a state that has a better education system than the one in Alabama and you have children, then you probably wouldn’t be willing to move him. And, Mississippi is one of the places where the state of education is worse than in Alabama. And, I won’t move there.

Now, that led to a conversation about how to “fix” education. And, in my opinion, we first have to have people who are wiling to admit that it is broken. But, as politicians, and that’s essentially who is running our educational system is politicians, are not going to ever do this. Politicians are going to continue to tell you what you want to hear and even if they can’t deliver on what they told you, they are still going to tell you the same thing.

So, as we set about as a nation, complaining about the idea of a national health care plan, can we think about what that would mean on an educational level. If someone, preferably our government, stepped in and said, “ok, this is broken, this is a fix and we are going to take on and carry out this plan. I will re-visit this with you in 3 or 5 or 10 years”. It’s difficult to say when you would revisit it because it’s relative to the changes being made.

But, we did not get in this position over night, therefore, you can expect someone to fix it over night. What you can and should expect is for someone to step up and say, “I have a plan……..”

And your thoughts are….