Letter+To+The+PresidentA1S69

Dear Mr. President Hello President Obama. How are you? Congratulations on winning the election. It must be exhilarating knowing all your hard work has finally paid off; even though it must be frustrating that you can't actually be the President until inauguration day, which is about two and a half months after you were voted to be the next big cheese. Anyway, back to the real reason I am writing. I am writing to ask you to look into resolving one specific issue before we begin trying to solve anything else in our long list of crisis. I would first like you to try to refine our educational system throughout the country. I believe that if we edit and solve the first major issue, the next one should reveal itself, and the next one, and so on and so forth. Like a domino effect. I just think that if we start with our educational system, it would be easier to find the next crisis to target. The first problem with our educational system is that in a lot of elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools, the wrong people are being hired and we can change who we hire without paying more than we already are. A fair amount of teachers who work in those types of schools aren't preparing their students for the next level and if they are, they might not necessarily be inspiring kids to be interested in a certain topic. If the countries next few generations aren't willing to make changes and aren't willing to help other people make changes (in a positive way) then from here on out, our country will continue on a downhill spiral to nowhere. Not to mention, the upcoming generations (in my opinion) will have a gigantic contribution to the history of our nation. However, all of this starts with poor decision making by the people who hire our teachers. We pay some people who don't even teach anything, they just go on and on ranting off topic. We just need to be smarter with the choosing process of our teachers. Maybe not even teachers maybe people higher up on the food chain like principals or super intendents. This can all be done without paying one cent more than we already are. Just make smarter decisions and hire people who have the potential to inspire and help them to bring out their potential. I also think that what we learn in our primary classes (math, language arts, science, and social studies) needs to be a good balance between modern facts (things that can help us in the present and future) and historic facts. If we don't make advances in what we learn today, this only cuts back on the time we have to make faster advances for tomorrow. And maybe not everyone is all for making advances and making new discoveries to get ourselves out of situations, maybe you think we need to perfect our use of older methods, which is why we should also learn a good portion of historic things. This just gives everyone a wider variety of career choices in the future. Now I know the Revolutionary War was important and without it, our society today would probably be very different, but really, we all get that and there is no reason to study it a million times. I also don't think that Magellan being the first person to sail around the world was really that great either, sure it was important, but I doubt it will greatly alter the life of the average fifth grader anytime soon. We should also be giving everyone the same kind of education at an early age. Every elementary school should be teaching the same type of things to every student in our country. Don't completely take out the creativity from classes, just to give everyone a fair chance to start out, that's how we should do it. It isn't the child's fault that maybe they have a disability or their parents don't make enough money to send them to a better school. At an early age, they just can't control that. In middle school it should be the same way. In high school, again, the kid just can't control how much money his/her parents make which again is why each high school I believe should have high standards like higher ranked preparatory schools. College is the only time where people should have a major choice in whether they want to learn more about a career they want to pursue or if they want to begin to work right out of high school. By now, they should have the knowledge to be able to think like an individual but have team playing skills. They can make their own choice whether to go on with school or not and now is the time where they can pay a certain amount for whatever education they want (again ignoring disabilities the person might have). Kids these days just aren't given fair opportunities and at times they have to slow down the rate at which they learn because a parent can't afford it. They should have the comfort to know that the right people are there that can help them make that advance and the same thing if a person is having trouble. They can fall back to someone that can help them perfect a skill if they are still skeptical about it. I just feel that with kids, we need to get them better prepared for the future especially with other nations making various advances. If we work out our education system right (and I'm sure you will do a fine job with ideas from this letter or not) we can also work out other major issues like our economy, then tackle gas prices, etc. With education, it just gives us more to knowledge to work out problems like these which is why I think we should solve this issue first. Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. I hope you enjoy your time in office.