Today, the Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education Subcommittee continues the series of hearings devoted to strengthening early childhood education with a hearing on “Improving Early Childhood Development Policies and Practices”. The hearing will further examine the early learning and child care needs of children and families, as well as collaborative state efforts and other initiatives to deliver high quality care and education to children from birth through age five.
This effort comes a week after President Barack Obama delivered his first major speech on education, in which he discussed early education as a critical part of his agenda.
This effort comes a week after President Barack Obama delivered his first major speech on education, in which he discussed early education as a critical part of his agenda.
Hello:
I’ve been involved in what is now over a 30-year search for higher education. All I’ve found is walls of complicity. Among the complications I’ve encountered are scholarships and grant searches, lack of qualified and knowledgeable counseling, lack of encouragement and intuitive programs and of course, government red tape, bureaucracy and accountability; all resulting in denial.
Being an adopted person has always presented extra “challenges” to this endeavor. For example, most ethnic groups provide grants and scholarships for high school graduates –there’re none available if you can’t provide ethnicity. One can’t reversibly or retroactively adopt the lineage of one’s adoptive parents nor easily be provided with such documentation concerning even medical and carrier predisposition, without spending vast sums of money in court pursuits for such matters; resulting in lost time and possible emotional consequences to the contractual parties thereof. Laws concerning the adoption process and consequences of this agreement pertain to the varying participants entering into the contract with the state and fail to address the adopted child’s inalienable rites. In other words, the state therefore acts as arbitrator of the contract between families, monitoring and selecting the eventual placement of a child while assuming no responsibility after the process other than to sequester doccumentation and protect information concerning contractual parties as supplied by law. However, in assuming the placement of a child, the state must also bear responsibility of that child. There’s neither representation for the child’s rights in any matter, nor any intermediary assignee/oversight to preclude possible future informational concerns at the time of adoption resulting in discrimination from birth. Furthermore, was information concerning the matters of ethnic, social background, medical and history even ascertained? These facts compound when an adopted person has a child and the matter passes to recurring generations, especially in areas of medical and ancestral history. This is clearly government-sponsored discrimination directed solely toward a segment of the population, which through no fault of their own had the misfortune of being processed through a government procurement system at birth. One therefore concludes one’s self as less than a commodity, for there’s more information available in an automobile history report than on one’s self and realization of discrimination was formulated and instituted from birth by a government sub-organization that is supposed to work for the people –not against them.
In summation, one’s views of parental involvement is determined by perspective. I personally have no care as to the circumstances and persons that caused my conception, it matters not, and furthermore I hold the decision made by them to be totally arbitrary to my concerns and wellbeing. My personal view is those that cared for myself is the deserving factor and wherein devotion lies. However the lack of transparency in a government system has promoted discrimination that demands attention and resolution. Far too much time has been lost in realization of a process that for all others appears to be second nature. Every adopted person has the same right to education, history and government services, just as any ethnic group or individual. Without a path or aligned slot in which to fall, there’s no avenue available to proceed and no justification, only discrimination.
I look forward to your response.
Mike W. Cannon
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