What I learned this week: The more I read about self righteous people, the more I realize they like pointing fingers at others so they don't have to look at themselves and their own inner demons.
What I am grateful for: This week the sun came out after a few cold and grey days. I am grateful I live in a city which sees more sun than clouds!
We began to work on Education Reform. We will be hosting a town forum on Education Reform and the Educational Crisis on April 20th at 7pm. To me education is one of the most powerful solutions to so many social problems we face. The statistics for our local public school system are alarming. Whether the statistics are wrong or not. We will probably never really know, but if the drop out rate ranges from 20 to 60 percent, officially it may be less than that, it should concern us. What we do know is this. In the most industrilized nation in the world, and one of the richest cities in the world, we shouldn't have a drop out rate higher than 5 to 10 percent. This is not the time to point fingers. It is a time for our nation to tackle the fact that we are not educating the work force for this century. That we have to hire people from all over the world because we can't access our own pool of unprepared students right here. Too many of our kids are dropping out and what impact will that have in a few years in our society, our economy and our culture?
Please comment and give us feedback on this blog and let us know your thoughts. We want to focus on solutions. As always we hope our town forums move us out of complacency and into action for a better system. What would you do to fix the system? What works? What Does not?
Please also put on your calendar, in october this year, I will be performing a musical concert of Latin American Music (tribute to Mercedes Sosa) with my former band Barandua to raise funds for Breast Cancer. As soon as I can I will let you know.
On Living Smart, a former Iraq War Veteran, a young woman who recently received her Masters in business from the University of Houston will share why she thinks microfinance is one of the many ways to tackle poverty. She will air on February 9th at 11:30pm and February 12th at 10pm.
Please write on your calendar April 20th for our town forum on Education Reform. We will need your feedback now and then.
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