Restoring Faith in Dallas Schools

The Dallas community had, for good reason, lost a certain amount of trust in the Dallas School System to give them the tools and agenda to turn around an enormous amount of failing students and a failing system. The answer always seems to be throw more money or pay the teachers more. Same answers that never seem to work. This is why I decided to write the following:

In order to examine the question of what is needed "to restore the community's faith in the Dallas schools," it would help to search for a time when the community had faith in more than just the schools. Doing so, one might discover that the entire social environment was far different than it is today. Thinking that we can just throw money at the problem is like expecting an old tarnished penny to shine like new by throwing water on it. Granted, it may sparkle, however, the dirt will still be there. The only real way to make the Dallas school system shine again is to clean away the old dirt that has been allowed to build up. This will demand a little pressure, here and there. The only way to make sure it continues to shine is to apply a protective coating. So, what does this mean? Before the dirt started tarnishing the our school system, a single book called the Bible, along with its principles served as both a guide to education and morality among both students and teachers. Statistics revealed that, after the Bible and school prayer were removed from the classrooms, in 1962-63, this was the beginning of a dynamic downturn in SAT scores across this nation. In addition, statistics showed a marked increase in teenage pregnancy and juvenile crime from that point on. Without this moral coating, and with the decline of teaching in the areas of standards, authority, and character, the dirt began to build on the coin of education. It may seem like small change to some, but a penny saved can be plenty learned. Today, with the help of some pioneers in the field of public education, teaching character has started to coin a significant improvement in several school systems in our nation. This is change for the better.