The step begins with vision. Our children imitate what they see. If we expose our children to negative images and dysfunctional role models, they will grow into those images. The home is a far more important place of learning than school. Unfortunately, at home too many parents abandon their children to television.
Television can cripple a child's self worth.
The library must be one of your child's best friends. Within the context of educational excellence, it is the parents' responsibility to ensure that their children are receiving an education that celebrates their ancestral brilliance every day, not just one month out of the year. Community empowerment is step four. To affect real change in this area requires a change in perspective. We must begin to view ourselves as the customers of our local, state, and federal government.