Ramnath Subramanian (Ram for short) is a retired public-school teacher who writes for the El Paso Times on educational topics. His recent above titled article provides insight as to why children, who live in the richest country in the world, are being short-changed by our government in not providing nutritional food that children enjoy or a well-rounded education.
As Ram points out in his good article, the well-being of our country's children should be our number one priority — the priority before building bridges, airports, or going to Mars. Above all other priorities, "every child should receive three balanced and nutritious meals a day" (which they are not receiving).
In his article, Ram points out that "bad education, however, has been good for wealth creation." Sadly, no wealth creation for teachers or students, however, but for highly over-paid bureaucrats, as well as textbook manufacturers and test makers. Another sad reality, is that violence is on the main menu for many school-age children in our country, through the sale of drugs by gangs.
Ram concludes his good article with the following conclusions:
"Yet, there is a conspiracy of silence about this problem. The cries of these children are yet to penetrate the conscience of our nation, and politics parades around in its usual garb ignoring the plight of poor people trapped in crime-torn communities. Ours is a government of millionaires, impervious to common peoples' realities. "He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent," says the Book of Proverbs [Proverbs 28:20]. Hence our children suffer."
As the richest nation in the world, perhaps our present society should read and heed what the Psalmist wrote in Psalm 78:1-8 who believed in a society that strongly believed that [quoting Ram] "a child is at the heart of everything."
—Mike Riley, Gospel Snippets
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