I don't like to beat a dead horse, but in order for this country to have any kind of sustainability, we must put education at the top of our list. Education is the foundation for life and without it, we will be lost and continue to lag behind other countries.
I believe many people in America have bought into the fallacy that the educational system is working, but it isn't. Most of the schools are not truly educating our children, they are just pushing them out into the world unprepared for life. If we want our country to be one that functions, we need to focus on the future generations. We can not begin to talk about sustainability, until the educational system is corrected.
I believe there are many children in America who have the answers to most if not all of our problems as a nation but they will never be discovered because these children aren't being challenged to rise to the occassion. If America would put our energy into the children, we won't have to figure out how we can have sustainable mobility, the children would do it for us.


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@suede: you are absolutely correct about parents placating their children with material things. I often look around the school at this time of year (income tax) and notice the number of students who come to school with new clothes and shoes and fancy cell phones. The sad part to all of this is many of my students don't think anything is wrong with behavior (goes back to the parents) and they don't think they are a part of the lower class because they have designer duds. I hope and pray America wakes up and smells the cocoa beans before it's too late.