On Oct. 18, The Bee printed an opinion piece by Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times outlining the problems with our educational system. His primary focus was teachers: removing the incompetent ones, and hiring and retaining good, effective ones.
There’s no shortage of experts who claim to have the answers to improving the educational system. What we have are a shortage of solid, loving, common sense parents who are engaged in their children’s educational experience, and for the sake of their kids’ future are willing to help where needed and discipline when necessary.
This idea that the job of the state is to educate my kids while I focus only on myself, then complain when everything goes wrong, is the recipe that has produced the broken system we have.
You brought them into this world, not the state. If you love them, forget about yourself and for12 or 13 years do everything in your power, foregoing any and all excuses, to help them become the successful, informed and contributing members that our society so desperately needs.
Henry Weststeyn
Visalia
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