211 Elm St NW
Washington, DC 20001
November 23, 2010
Barack Obama
President
United States of America
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20006
Dear Mr. President:
I am a freshman at Howard University. My recent move from Texas to Washington, DC, has assimilated me into current politics. I feel it’s now my duty to know what is going on in the capital of my country since I stay here now. I have been delighted with your recent efforts while you have been in office. I even commend you of your effort to bring bipartisan policies into effect. However, I still have a problem with the education system that Americans face, and I feel that we are going the completely wrong way with trying to fix it.
During your campaign run, and also while you have been in office, you have clearly stated your opinion on education in America. You even gave reasonable solutions, but I still feel as if you’re not addressing the real problem. The greatest area of concern to me is that America focuses too much on trying to compete with other nation’s education system that we are not realizing were not reaching our full potential.
Your ideas of creating head-start programs and strengthening the core of K-12 schooling are excellent idea, but if the main goal is to try to catch up to other countries, then everything you are trying to do is pointless. I know from personal experience that other countries to reaching their full potential either. Through the diversity of Howard University, I am blessed to see many ethnicities. They have a very strong sense of education, but I feel that other ethnicities as well as we could be working a lot harder than we currently are.
President Barack Obama
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I attended one of our town hall meetings, and I know hearing other students ideas will bring new ideas to the table. I would like to request that you hold another town hall meeting soon to discuss different aspects of education reform can be presented.
Thank you for your consideration. I hope to hear from you soon, and I will be writing again within the next 3 weeks to follow up on your consideration.
Sincerely,
Derrick Simmons
I really like this letter that you wrote to president Barrack Obama. For so long I have been thinking about writing a letter to him telling him how good it feels to know that someone of the same race as myself is representing for all African Americans around the United States. But I really respect you for this later.
ReplyDeleteThis letter is really good. I think you should send it because a lot of what you are saying is true and needs to be heard.
ReplyDeleteThe letter brings up some great points, but are you trying to focus on America's diversity in schooling or just education reform as it is? You do talk about trying to catch up with other nations and I agree, but as a country what do you think we should do to focus more? The ideas are there, but it seems you are criticizing rather than promoting a solution. I personally believe as a country we need to focus on promoting a certain curriculum for math and science and more teacher incentives. There is so much inequality when it comes to public education and private institutions that whoever has more money essentially wins. Thanks to that more teachers feel unmotivated, making students unmotivated and creating a set back with education. Our country needs to focus more about the general body of America rather than focusing on the those that are able to attain private education.
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