In a Seattle, Washington college classroom, they were discussing the qualifications to be President of the United States.
It was pretty simple. The candidate must be a natural born citizen of at least 35 years of age.
However, one girl in the class became visibly upset and immediately started in on how unfair that was–the requirement to be a natural born citizen. In short, her opinion was that this requirement prevented many capable individuals from becoming president.
The class was taking it in and letting her rant, but some jaws hit the floor when she wrapped up her argument by stating, ‘What makes a natural born citizen any more qualified to lead this country than one born by C-section?’
Yep, there are 18 year olds admitted to our colleges, yet, that are eligible to vote for the President of the United States, but are totally unprepared for voting, with no thanks to our own U.S. educational system. Students do fall between the cracks, too often.
These poorly taught and often mis-educated, deprived student citizens, hopefully will not be our future leaders unless they get mentored and moulded somewhere other than the Seattle school curriculum.
Education is important! We must provide a viable education that teaches America’s foundations and prepares students to keep building on these foundations. Then we can expect a hope-filled future.
Let’s hear it for home schoolers. They’re known to be well prepared, know how to research, and they can study a topic for more than 20 minutes at a time! Home schooled students are notably talented and intensively inquisitive, going deeper educationally as well as wider and higher–and they reach for the stars right from home!
God bless our U.S. parents who decide to take time to supervise the learning of their own children as these homeschooled kids learn about life from the home on up to the white house–sort of like Washington and Lincoln, don’t cha know?! ###