by Volecia Plafcan

Created on: October 29, 2009   Last Updated: October 30, 2009

Yes, the world is getting better with each generation. It seems the children are smarter, there is more hi-tech equipment in which the children can learn on i.e. computers, etc. Learning just seems to come easier, now.

My grandson came home the other day announcing that he and thirty two other students had been chosen for the Spelling Bee on November tenth. There were around two hundred who had not qualified. To my grandson it was an every day thing. To me it was something to be celebrated. He rattles off spelling words that no one had any idea he knew how to spell. The Bee hasn't been won yet, but the biggest part was being chosen to participate. He has a twenty page list of words that some I can't even spell without looking at the word.

The younger, new-age group are Obama followers. He is well educated and so is Michelle and they make wonderful leaders for the younger group. Maybe, they are what this country needs. She seems self liberated, in that, she wore shorts to the Grand Canyon and she looked sporty in them and even though, there were remarks made about them, I don't recall her defending herself. She seems to be forever smiling and Lord knows, we need that these days. Bear in mind that the youger people will be our future.

Laura Bush, with the sweetest smile that ever graced a front page, was instrumental in the importance of knowing how to read. She had a motherly way about her and how, I know, she must be missed by Americans, even though, Michelle is with us, now.

Sex education in school has brought about another unmentionable study in the old timers way of thinking. An old timer would be me. It was always a no-no when I was in school and around my parents. My mother thought having a period was a shame, when mine arrived. Did I get an explanation when I ran to her scared to death? She told me I would do that once a month and threw a pad to me. I went about life, wondering what tha? for many years as I was a tomboy and played with my male cousin most of the time. Was I going to ask him about it and let him jeer me out of the country? I kept quiet until my older years, then understanding came to me in the form of a best girl friend.

Sex education should be learned and why not in school? It suppresses girls getting pregnant and having to tend a baby when she needs to be in school, furthering her education on how NOT to have a baby and end up on welfare.

Yes, our leaders are improving our childrens' education and how to, everyday and that is progress for America. Teachers are doing a bang up job and more and more, children are enlightened about things that were 'hush-hush' in my day. Talk is freer and no one says, "Shame on you!" if you happen to say the word 'vagina'.

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