RAISE EDUCATION STANDARDS; DON'T LOWER QUALIFICATION STANDARDS

It came to my attention that some police forces and other public works, like firefighters and other jobs which require fast thinking and creative responses, are lowering their test standards so more African Americans can pass them.  That is as effective as getting someone to hold their finger in the leaking dam.

When is someone going to listen to Obama about our need to do better education?  Think, "don't raise the bridge, lower the river".  We must stop thinking about accepting problems rather than finding solutions.  I see the move to lower standards when hiring police as an insult to all law enforcement.  I would very much like to know by whom those decisions are made.  Are they departmental,.out of desperation?  Does no one any longer want the job from hose qualified, or are we making a negative racial statement again? 

There is no differential of intelligence potential in the brains of any of our races.  The opportunity for good education is by dedicated teachers who can instill the love of learning in the students they teach.  Schools must all accept that we have many hungry children who cannot learn while they suffer hanger pangs,  We cannot teach in a one-size-fits-all format.  Not everyone is capable of learning from similar sources; some learn through auditory inputs, others visual.. 

Don't let the greedy legislators take any more from education.  Take equal taxes from the richest 1% and give it to the schools to be spent on specific advances for education...not just tenure and raises for the incompetent because the union says to.  I support unions but not when they get as greedy as the legislators.  Protests will arise, not just 'against' but' for ' needs to be met, as well.