Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
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We should not have our children going to school to learn how to become obese.
The success of our economy shouldn't determine the success of our schools.
You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.
If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or even higher test scores. And yet we somehow refuse to accept this reality.
We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.
We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.
We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.
What we have done with No Child Left Behind is squeeze the creativity out of the classroom because teachers have begun to just teaching to the test.
What good is telling America's children that they will have equal opportunity for education if they don't have the skills that will even get them to the point of benefiting from education, because they didn't have the child care, the health care that would enable them to grow as strong and constructive human beings?
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