With the Nov. elections coming up in 8 months, the candidates, and Republican Nominee John McCain, are splurring out the issues that the American people "want to hear". But with topics like the Iraq War, failing economy, and health care, it seems that our next president, meaning that no candidate has spoken about this issue that much, has forgot about our youth and their education.
Our Education System is in shambles. We have spent so much for a war, but have spent too little on our youth education. We are behind many developed countries in education and it seems that the government has been too distracted to notice this. Education is one of the most important need to our youth. What makes them to be doctors, astronauts, politicians, and other careers is what they learn during school. But it seems that this issue is a "lost dog".
In Florida, we are experiencing teacher shortages, I would like to hear something positive to change that, but I haven't. More students our droppping out, I would like to hear somethign positive happen about this, but I haven't. Many seniors in high school have decent GPA's, but have diffecult getting into a university because they seek for students with 3.7 or 3.8. What does the government have planned for our youth? What can the American people do to help save our education system? Will I not be able to help my children go to college when it comes to that time?
Mr. President, Save us before it's too late!
Unfortunately, Iraq is McCain's selling point and Health Care is Hillary's selling point. And Obama is spending his time distancing himself from these two. I'm sure each candidate has unique ideas about how to handle education, but we don't get to hear them. Also, I found it interesting is the 3.7 and 3.8 desired GPA. I think it would be interesting to compare high school GPAS now to high school GPAS say 5, 10, 15 years ago.
Well yeah, the candidates have other issues on their mind, but it can't be said they don't have time when they repeat theirselves every debate or media time to talk about the Iraq War. We know where you stand, get onto something new please!
It has grown very hard to get into a university now. I visited University of South Florida a couple months ago and was told that it would be very hard to get in with anything less than a 3.6 GPA. And that was just USF! It's the fact that the population is growing that most colleges raise their standards. I admit, my GPA isn't anywhere near a 3.6, but if I knew I could get into USF with a 3.3, I would had tried harder.