Remember Michael Nutter, the candidate?
I remember the "candidate" for mayor with a vision to clean-up city government corruption, make Philadelphia's streets safe, be a friend and supporter to city unions, create jobs for Philadelphians, and provide social service programs that would build character and integrity in youth and adolescents that are embracing the "darker angels" of their souls.
Unfortunately, Mr. Nutter is more like Houdini, where as a candidate; he bedazzled the voters with the type of rhetoric Philadelphians needed to hear as we endured 8 years of "open corruption" and a host of other mismanagement policies and projects by the Street Administration. But as mayor, Mr. Nutter is nothing more than a noun, a verb and according him, "America is in the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression."
What a sad state of leadership our great city is enduring.
Anthony P. Johnson
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Monday, May 3, 2010
"Forgotten Heroes?"
They provide invaluable information so that the next generation of Americans and the country's future will be brighter. Every day they enter a hostile environment where injuries--both verbally and physically--are constant, and in some instances, could very well lead to murder. Some work for administrations that are so draconian, incompetent, and apathetic to the resources that they need to be effective that one could believe without question that the administrators want them to fail.
Who are those forgotten heroes? Soldiers in our military, C.I.A., FBI or NSA agents?
No, they are "Teachers."
Some teachers in this country are walking into schools that resemble war-torn Europe during WWII and still they do everything humanly possible and beyond to provide youth and adolescents with the best education possible through their own devices.
The dedicated teachers for example continue to deal with the “political chicanery” of the public school administration that provides them with little or no support at all, and yet expects the educators to produce the best and brightest students. Additionally, the teachers face parents that could care less about what their children are doing in the home, let alone how they are progressing or regressing in the classroom.
Despite all of these road blocks they do produce! Some teachers throughout America are providing the youth and adolescents with much needed guidance by teaching them that there is a world beyond the barricade, and if they are willing to seek this venture, the forgotten heroes we call teachers provide the road map and effective leadership.
Over the last two years, we have witnessed an increase in unemployed Americans resulting in thousands of individuals requiring educational credentials. In fact, some individuals that were employed are losing their jobs because they do not possess a high school diploma or a GED. According to the U.S. Department of Education, some 40 million adults, 16 years and older, do not have a high school diploma, and many of the GED programs in America have not produced a significant amount of individuals earning a general equivalency diploma.
Not Bonnie Kaye, M.Ed.
Ms. Kaye has tirelessly worked 23 years in the field of Education, Training, and Employment. Combined with those skills, she owns and operates a GED Center where she teaches an accelerated version of GED preparation that students have excelled in, and in the process, has a very successful student completion and test pass rate.
Ms. Kaye brings an “academic holistic approach” to her program that students have embraced emphatically. She is an educator that is producing effective leaders for communities that are in short supply.
Dedicated educators and Bonnie Kaye are heroes, but they would chaff at such plaudits, sonnets, and poems lauded on their personage. They believe they are doing what anyone of us would be willing to do.
Would we?
Sure, there are hundreds of thousands of educators in the Republic, but how many have been effective in getting children and adults to learn under the “worst” circumstances and conditions? No. They're heroes. Unfortunately, we take them for granted only acknowledging their works after they left the room.
I will not. Many thanks to those teachers that give a damn about the youth and adolescents that could possibly someday be tomorrow’s leader for our country. Thank you, Ms. Kaye. Heroes? Yes. Forgotten heroes? Never.
Anthony P. Johnson
Who are those forgotten heroes? Soldiers in our military, C.I.A., FBI or NSA agents?
No, they are "Teachers."
Some teachers in this country are walking into schools that resemble war-torn Europe during WWII and still they do everything humanly possible and beyond to provide youth and adolescents with the best education possible through their own devices.
The dedicated teachers for example continue to deal with the “political chicanery” of the public school administration that provides them with little or no support at all, and yet expects the educators to produce the best and brightest students. Additionally, the teachers face parents that could care less about what their children are doing in the home, let alone how they are progressing or regressing in the classroom.
Despite all of these road blocks they do produce! Some teachers throughout America are providing the youth and adolescents with much needed guidance by teaching them that there is a world beyond the barricade, and if they are willing to seek this venture, the forgotten heroes we call teachers provide the road map and effective leadership.
Over the last two years, we have witnessed an increase in unemployed Americans resulting in thousands of individuals requiring educational credentials. In fact, some individuals that were employed are losing their jobs because they do not possess a high school diploma or a GED. According to the U.S. Department of Education, some 40 million adults, 16 years and older, do not have a high school diploma, and many of the GED programs in America have not produced a significant amount of individuals earning a general equivalency diploma.
Not Bonnie Kaye, M.Ed.
Ms. Kaye has tirelessly worked 23 years in the field of Education, Training, and Employment. Combined with those skills, she owns and operates a GED Center where she teaches an accelerated version of GED preparation that students have excelled in, and in the process, has a very successful student completion and test pass rate.
Ms. Kaye brings an “academic holistic approach” to her program that students have embraced emphatically. She is an educator that is producing effective leaders for communities that are in short supply.
Dedicated educators and Bonnie Kaye are heroes, but they would chaff at such plaudits, sonnets, and poems lauded on their personage. They believe they are doing what anyone of us would be willing to do.
Would we?
Sure, there are hundreds of thousands of educators in the Republic, but how many have been effective in getting children and adults to learn under the “worst” circumstances and conditions? No. They're heroes. Unfortunately, we take them for granted only acknowledging their works after they left the room.
I will not. Many thanks to those teachers that give a damn about the youth and adolescents that could possibly someday be tomorrow’s leader for our country. Thank you, Ms. Kaye. Heroes? Yes. Forgotten heroes? Never.
Anthony P. Johnson
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