Week 1 Blog 4 - "Save the Economy"

This blog is a response to the article "Save the economy: bail out our kids" by Rick Dalton from the December 26th, 2008 edition of The Christian Science Monitor.

I was going to write my blog and then write the summary, but I decided that in order for me to write a non- bias summary, I should probably write the summary first and then talk about my feeling of the summary.  Plus now I feel better educated on the article after writing a summary on it.  I feel that my view has changed slightly after I wrote the summary.

Before I wrote my summary I understood the problem Rick Dalton was trying to educate me on, and I agree that something needs to be done to help our educational system.  I was upset because I wanted him to discuss more about some of the solutions to helping the education system.  When I wrote the summary I realized some little helpful things he suggest about how I can help the Educational system, but I still do with he would have talked about more some of the strategies the government could take for helping out with this ongoing crisis.

Some of the facts in his article were startling, like how much money it cost the community to have a dropout student.  It is amazing on how much of a difference one person can make.  We do not realize how much of an impact the choices we make are choices that effect the world and people around us.  Such as the choice to deal with the educational system.  Some people who are out of school would say it does not affect me because I no longer need to attend a university because I have already been there done that, but it does matter because the kids who are attending schools right now are going to be the future leaders of our country and they are going to be the leaders when the current leaders are old and need tons of money from medicare.

I know this article talks about the growing problems in the educational system, but it also makes you realize how connected our country is, and how we need to support each other in order to survive.