Tuesday, May 02, 2006

The Plan:

I have recently become quite passionnate about the lack of current events education in public schools. It bothers me that global emergencies like HIV/AIDS, the war in Northern Uganda, hospital conditions in Moldova, orphanages in Romania can go completely undetected by the younger generation because there is no education system in place for that information. If it is up to the children to tackle the problems of our future they need to know what those problems are. They need to be concerned about life on a global scale. That needs to start at an early age.
Ask me more about this. I will gladly tell you how I feel.
In the meantime, this is the plan I have developed to conquer this issue (because I can't take care of it myself):

kagemusha911 (1:09:25 AM): theres been a lot of news converage on the conflict in darfur
kagemusha911 (1:09:28 AM): on the genocide there
kagemusha911 (1:09:36 AM): a little late though
audioangel2 (1:10:04 AM): well,
audioangel2 (1:10:09 AM): that's how the media works
audioangel2 (1:10:29 AM): it doesn't cover problems for which there are no solution or end in sight
audioangel2 (1:11:08 AM): if you decide to become a teacher instead,
audioangel2 (1:11:19 AM): please campaign for a better current events curriculum
audioangel2 (1:11:23 AM): it's so important.
kagemusha911 (1:11:30 AM): thats why im gonna be a cop
audioangel2 (1:11:52 AM): yeah
audioangel2 (1:12:08 AM): i would like to follow through on all of my convictions but that would take more than one lifetime
kagemusha911 (1:12:27 AM): i believe it
audioangel2 (1:12:50 AM): i guess i will have to leave the current events curriculum to somebody else
audioangel2 (1:13:00 AM): i wrote a strongly worded letter to senator smith about it
kagemusha911 (1:13:12 AM): oh really?
kagemusha911 (1:13:22 AM): that would have been fun to read
kagemusha911 (1:13:28 AM): havbe you gotten a response?
audioangel2 (1:13:34 AM): no
audioangel2 (1:13:43 AM): i just mailed it
kagemusha911 (1:13:46 AM): whend you send it?
kagemusha911 (1:13:48 AM): i see
audioangel2 (1:14:01 AM): on sat.
audioangel2 (1:14:06 AM): i bet he doesn't read it
audioangel2 (1:14:15 AM): i'm going to keep writing until i get a response.
kagemusha911 (1:14:19 AM): good
audioangel2 (1:14:39 AM): a letter a week
kagemusha911 (1:14:54 AM): atta girl

1 comment:

Unknown said...

part of our ignorance is the fact that we dont even know where any other countries even ARE, so why would we care what happens there? i posted something about that on my blog. american teenagers dont even know where afghanistan or iraq are! youre right about schools needed to improve current events curriculum, but i somehow think even the teachers arent always up to date.