Learning is a wonderful thing, it's a shame we have to go to school to get it. In the hopes of improving schools, a bad student tries to figure out why he became a teacher.
What’s happening in our elementary and middle schools right now will affect our national security in the next 15 to 20 years. We’ve got to get junk food out of our schools, and physical education back into our schools.
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James Barnett, Rear Admiral of the US Navy, on how obesity is becoming a national security issue. Don’t look now, but schools are taking a large portion of blame for the obesity epidemic in America. As teachers and administrators we can either cry foul play, or use this as an opportunity to leverage the resources our leaders will share to make schools a better place for all of us.
Watch the entire interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe here. Go to minute 4 for this discussion on education.
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