They are only children, not small adults!

What ever happen to giving the new kids on the block some leeway, I have seen over the years that I have worked in the field of education less tolerance for allowing children and young people to learn by making mistakes. It is like we want everybody to be born with all the knowledge and skills they will ever need to achieve their goals in life. I hear myself telling students over and over that if they were born with the knowledge then they would not need to be in college in the first place. If the children at Jefferson Middle School are having a hard time expressing themselves in writing why not help them. The Albuquerque Journal wants these children to be small adults not children. I don’t know about the rest of the world but I started learning how to write in middle school. I still feel that I have a great deal to learn when it comes to the field of writing.

I think it would be a great idea if the writers at the Journal paid that middle school a visit and volunteered to help them write some great articles on their views of how to make school a better learning environment when it comes to the skills of writing articles for newspapers and journals. The process would help them to see why they need to know how to write and what better people to help them then people who write for a living. Our public schools should be partnering with skilled people from the business world in order to produce the best possible results for our children. It is only too easy to criticize and put children down but it is a whole different animal to help them achieve and learn the skills they will need in life. If teaching was an easy job then everyone would be doing it. After all what does the Albuquerque Journal want future employees and customers or to drive more people away from ever wanting to read a newspaper or for that matter any other type of written material. I get the feeling that right about now those children and their families are problem not too thrilled with that newspaper.