Volunteers will either sell raffle tickets or drink tickets, or stock restaurant napkins and plates. It is a wonderful evening. He blames society s shortcomings on public education. Too many people are looking for heroes in all the wrong places. Movie stars and rock musicians, athletes and models aren t heroes, they re celebrities.
Heroes abound in public schools, a fact that doesn t make the news.
There is no precedent for the level of violence, drugs, broken homes, child abuse and crime in today s America. Public education didn t create these problems but deals with them every day. Consider Dave Sanders , the school teacher shot to death while trying to shield his students from two Neo-Nazi youth on a bombing and shooting rampage at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Sanders gave his life, along with 12 students, but other less heralded heroes survived the Colorado blood bath. Jane Smith , a Fayetteville, North Carolina, teacher was moved by the plight of one of her students, a boy dying for want of a kidney transplant.