Private schools

Today the major thing I did was go to a meeting with people from all the military services. We talked about recruiting in schools. It is very interesting to hear all the services talk about how hard it is to get into the service now. If you want to go into the army is fairly easy. If you want to go into the Air Force you must wait at least a year. If you want to go if the Navy is almost impossible because they don't meet many people, you need people to go into the seals and some nuclear engineers. The Coast Guard takes your name and they might call you. The Marines are also not in need of so many people. The funny thing is all of these people are working for recruiters. So the question is what should the recruiters do when the services don't need any people? The recruiters have a saying, make mission go fishing. But the problem right now is they have not reduced the requirement, mission, that the recruiter has to bring two people in each month. So what is the recruiter supposed to do when the services are not accepting people? This is so stupid! These days their mission is fishing. I'm glad my job is to work with schools and not to do recruiting, or I would never be able to go fishing! Oh, I want to go fishing next weekend, I hope I can find someone to go fishing with me.

Yesterday I went to a private school in Santa Rosa. I was so impressed with this private school and the kids there were polite. I think I'm supposed to say that about private school children, but the truth is that the kids were more disruptive than some public schools, and some continuation schools that I've been to recently. I think schools are starting to get a bad rap, just because kids go to public schools doesn't mean that they are any worse or better than people that go to private schools. I went to a public school, most of my friends went to public schools, so the best people I know have gone to public schools! When I go to private schools the only exception is there wearing uniforms. That's it. It's Monday and Tuesday I went to an occupational school in San Jose. The kids there, the teachers there and the staff there were great. Every one of the kids that I met at that school were very polite, and they made me feel happy to be there. The counselor I was working with worked three times as hard as any other teacher saying for a long time. You could tell that she really was concerned about the future of the kids in the school. My kids go to public school, in fact these days I work very closely with the administration school and some of the teachers and I'm very proud of the school they go to. I wish people would quit giving schools such a bad reputation, just because there are some people that don't want to be at the school doesn't mean that all of the children that go to that school don't want to be there. I think my kids are getting a great education, learning how to be good adults, and being prepared for life in their public school. I understand why some parents want their kids to go to private schools especially if they want them to go to a religious school but I don't think it's needed for everyone. When we start comparing our education system to other countries we are not taking into consideration that those other countries have different education systems. We are comparing all of our children, including the ones that don't want to be in school, with kids in other countries the only one to go to college. We don't compare our kids in school to the average kids in school and other countries. I'm not saying everything is great in our schools, but I disagree with those people that think everything in our schools is bad.

(this is the first posting I tried to do using my microphone and me speaking while the computer types what I say!)