YAY for school!

It's November folks!  A month when schools are busy.  Halloween is over, Thanksgiving is coming, and TESTING is here.  For those with school-aged children, you know what I'm talking about.  Between October 24th and November 25th, all Wisconsin public schools are required by law to test all students in grades 3-8 and 10.  Needless to say, students dread this yearly event. 

However, when it's easy to think of what we don't like about school, children and families in Haiti struggle to receive an education.  In a recent report, Haiti's president has vowed to put free public education as a top priority!  Something that in America, we often take for granted.    But until change happens in Haiti, parents struggle to educate their children. 

Click to read this article from the Voice of America

Picture from lipmantimes.com

Did you know:
Half of all Haitians are illiterate. 
Annual income is $400usd

How lucky we are to educate our children.  Even if they have to go through testing! 

Lord, thank you for the education I have received, thank you that my children are able to receive an education.  Please give the new Haitian goverment the desire, resources, and ambition to provide an education to their people.  Amen

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

~Robert Maynard Hutchins