Monday, August 21, 2006
Getting Started
I was thinking about my post about "what is worth it" and I realized that maybe most people have good intentions and they really do want to make a difference but they don't know how. Then you have the people (such as myself) who want to point fingers in outrage and say "Hey why aren't we fixing all these problems!" but most people don't say hey this is how you start to fix the problem. I know that is one of the most frustrating things for me..wanting to help or to try to make a change and not really knowing how to start. So I'd like to start by saying that when I mention problems or things that have outraged me on my drive in or something I've heard on the news, I will be imploring to each and one of you to start to make a different, but I won't just be standing on my soap box screaming and yelling I plan on trying to find out the HOW to what ever the problem is and letting everyone know. How do we fix the public school systems so that we don't have to send our kid to private school unless we want to and not out of necessity? How do we encourage our children that their education doesn't stop at high school? How do we teach or children that rapping and sports aren't the only jobs that they can get? How do we teach our children that the visuals that they see on television of iced out watches and chains that cost more than some peoples homes, isn't real and most of those rapper rent their jewelry. I don't know yet but I promise to share the answers when I find out. We can all start together.
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Well Nikki,
All I can say is this. Jesus wants us to be with 1 accord.This is a great start.I like your last sentence when you say ''WE'' can All start together.Let us just keep that in mind...it takes All of us pulling together to make the difference!!!!!!
I think so, We all need to try to make a difference. It's the only way we will all succeed.
Hi Nicole,
Nicole I was with two retired teachers (one English and one math) this weekend at church and they were discussing the issues of public education. You are right we must tackle this problem together for a solution! One of the teachers said one of the problems is that some white teachers do not know how to relate to minority children in this day and age to help them learned based on their life style at home and their surroundings. One of the teachers said she had helped out in one of our children program for the church summer program and gave them a poem to memorize. She said she couldn't believe two of the ways they learned to memorize the poem was to make it into a rap song and then the girls made it into a clap number. She said she had asked one of them to just read it from memorization and they couldn't but those two methods they did! So maybe the first step is the training of the teachers to teach maybe not from standard test that the students need to make sure they pass to keep their jobs in the system. But teach the children so they can not only learn to memorization but apply what they are learning! The retired math teacher stated that math needs specialized teachers or not one teacher teaching all different types of math. She would sit in on classes and saw errors being taught to the children and she would correct the teacher once the students were out of the room because she knew the teacher didn't know what she was teaching but was doing it to keep her job. The one teacher said there is too much learning to memorization to keep the children quite in the classroom. She actually worked in the DC area prior to retiring around the Union Station area and said most teachers wanted no part in working in that area but she loved it because she saw her greatest reward in seeing them learn when most had given up on them (another is that some are given the gift to teach from God which she is one of them and not all of them have that gift -- my on-line Bible teacher is an English teacher and I know they are the best to learn from - - I am blessed). She worked with smaller groups so she could give them attention which she felt made the difference! She also said the area spending money on education makes a big difference or always cutting from the education budget has got to stop, they are our future. They also felt that the middle school should be just seventh and eight grades because eight grade was too much of a repeat from the seventh grade therefore they were getting into trouble from being bored and with the added physical and mental changes that occur at that age in children it was a hugh problem. They felt the sixth grade should remain in the elementary school for that reason. Well just sharing what they said!
Have a blessed day!
P.S. Jewelry - - little do they know they are wearing their wealth
It was a form of currency prior to the invention of money in the Bible (Genesis 24:22) There is obviously nothing wrong with having money one can't help to do some of the will of God without it (feeding the poor, spreading the gospel etc.) . But the youth must not forget "The love of money is the root of all evil: which while some will coveted (10th Commandment) after their jewelry. Since it is a sin to covet, why would they want to entice a child to covet their wealth by wearing it for all to see? Regardless if they are renting it or not it should not be done.
Actually the two words Christian jewelry don't go together or contradict each other (see many of them wearing hugh crosses). How can jewelry be Christian when there is Bible scripture that strongly counsel us against something to be avoided or caution believers not to wear it? Yes this was an issue with me so the Holy Spirit had me guided into the truth about Jewelry including how it got into the church - - we all came from the Roman Catholic Church that was influenced by paganism (this is where wedding bands came in - - they are no where in scripture) to bring them into the Christian Faith that worship creations rather then the Creator.
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