Dear Parents,  

Remember as you drop off your child to their first day of school, they are not alone.  Their teacher is welcoming more than 20 students into the classroom.  

Remember to extend grace to your child’s teachers and seek to build a real connection with them.  

By supporting the teacher’s classroom guidelines, you can promote your child’s success. In addition, seeing that your child has a good night’s sleep, and gets their day started in a positive way supports a child’s learning experience.  

Staying involved with your child’s academic progress will provide a basis for continuing conversation on achievement. Maintaining good communication and demonstrating to your child that you are a team with their teacher will set the tone for your child’s accountability. 

Keep in mind, the need for accountability is an important part of human growth and development. Consistent communication with your child’s teacher, even if no problems arise, is the best start to providing an optimal education for your child.  

Dear Single Person, 

With or without children, always remember this young impressionable generation is looking for leaders who know and understand right from wrong, and who demonstrate how to live in a world with no boundaries.   

Remember, whether or not you have children of your own, you are being watched and observed each and every day. They observe us when we are in the line at Wal-Mart and we are rude to the register clerk. They observe us when we talk about our boss and the leaders placed over us. They watch how we interact with our neighbors. 

Each time you think, “The problems of education are not my responsibility,” remember this the next time you go through the drive-through and are tempted to complain about the service; how this generation is taught and raised directly affects you. The responsibility of this generation rests on us all.  

Dear Leaders and Legislators, 

Remember, long after you are gone, your laws and legislations, and policies will still be around.  It is our children who suffer when we neglect to realize their true value. Should we ever gain just a fraction of understanding of their worth, we would make our goals and laws centered on their futures, not what can be gained from those here in our lifetime.  We would make our future generations the ones who benefit from our legislation, and not ourselves. The responsibility of educating our children rests on us all. 

Dear Pastors and Church Leaders, 

We seek to build our buildings and our churches for adults who we can gain from and build with. Should we ever see who the real church is we will focus our attention on our futures, and those from whom we can gain nothing. If we truly understand that children are our future, then let’s invest our time, money and efforts there. Our buildings will decay and deteriorate one day, but our future generations will live on long after we are gone. Yes, the responsibility of educating our children rests on us all.  

Dear Homeschool Parents, 

Remember that while your children are in a safe environment which you create and control, somewhere on your street block, a child gets on a bus every day and passes your home to go to school where they might be bullied. Some of these kids come home to an environment that is not so controlled or even safe as yours.  Yes, the responsibility of educating our children rests on us all.   

Dear Readers, 

Yes, the world is a mess. Yes, our kids have real problems, problems which feel impossible to fix. Education has suffered. Yet, the responsibility of educating our children does not rest on the teacher alone.  You have a part to play, and a role to fill. It is no longer acceptable to sit back and pass the buck to another. 

If you have ever been tempted to complain about the service when you go to a store or restaurant: you have a role to play. If you have ever complained about the laws being passed; you have a role to play. If you have ever complained about the drug epidemic, and the increase of crime; you have a role to play.  If you have ever complained about the corruption in leadership and our government; you have a role to play.  If you have ever complained about why our kids aren’t learning responsibility; you have a role to play. If you have ever complained about the work ethic of young people today; you have a role to play. If you are frustrated with the lack of respect you see out of the next generation; you have a role to play.   

The circle of blame has left our children unattended. We no longer have the luxury of passing the buck to the teacher or our legislators.  We all have a role to play. 

The responsibility of educating our children rests on us all.   

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By Rachel Taylor and Jill Steele