Schools: The World

 School is where the minds of tomorrow reside. Not enough attention is paid to them, their workers and their impact. Most parents gratefully send their kids off every morning for someone else to mind. There are a few who place political worth on what is presented there but the majority take for granted something hugely more important. Here in Canada, with our open doors to all other nations in welcoming them and their offspring to partake in our tax based instutions, along with those who are also immigrants of long standing to this country founded by ancient peoples, we become a country of the world. Our children, all of them, absorb what happens in  schools. Good parents make sure that they stay invoved with what is being shown and spoken of and allowed with that knowledge given, however minute, and participate in the place where their children spend most of their waking day. They want something personal for their kids but they also want their kids to be open to the world. Others see it only as a babysitting service so that they can go to work for the whole family to survive. The latter kind of parent is not a bad parent, it is a tired one but their presence is needed, too. The crux of all education begins at home no matter what the outside influences are. Love is where it begins, not laws or rules or "we do it this way- period". Love extends to all humans because we are all one creature and we must fit together to survive. Schools are precious places, as precious as churches and court houses and hospitals. For here is our future. It isn't a philosophical idea, it's a fact. One finds in school, a social placement that helps form a life. Our leaders in all fields were molded in part in some way, in schools: home schools, boarding schools or other naturally formed schools. Family influences are not the only child's future mantra. Most schools try to offer a broad outlook that includes all peoples and their ways. It should be the most open and democratic venue there is to avoid confusion in the child. Young minds will find their way and make their choices no matter what outside forces think they are applying. Schools try to keep the fields broad enough and hopefully unbiased enough to allow minds to think freely. For their futures.