When Dreams Can Become Real

     I write about our day dreams and ways to escape. Sometimes we dream of something that can become tangible. For instance, a person who had to drop out of school for various reasons, dreams of one day going back and getting their GED and being able to read as well or better than their children. A person's dreams can get clouded and interrupted when "life happens". Here is a question a child once asked, what are we doing to help?
     We can learn, accept, and re preserve those dreams. First, we learn how many people in our country are learning disabled, drop outs, or illiterate. We learn how many people in our state are illiterate or drop outs or learning disabled. We learn how many people in our areas or counties are ld, illiterate or drop outs.
Secondly, we must accept the raw facts that we find out. Fact: In our county, out of our 1400 students there is a 5% drop out rate and 13% of the students have IEPs or they are in special education services. Most of the 13% are between 1st and 6th grade. A few are between 8th and 12th. Another fraction of those who are currently in that 13% might drop out by 10th grade or get in trouble with the law.
     A professor once asked if we believed that we are responsible for our fellow "man". I believe that we are put on this earth for a purpose. I've always believed my purpose is to care for, protect, and teach the children that I come across in my life. It has grown to teaching those children, who are now adults, and their children, whom society and the education system "sieved out" or let fall through the cracks in our floors.
The third thing we do as teachers and writers is re-preserve those dreams that those people had as children, to complete there education and to read so they can create and hand down new dreams that become real.
Lets make dreams become real, contact your local community college and talk to the Dean of Basic Skills. Then come back and tell the rest of us about your experience.