Our Communities are the Backbone of our Country

As we enter the month of May, with warmer weather and backyard BBQ’s it’s a good time to invite a few friends and neighbors over and use this time to talk about some important issues that we all face today. What better way than around a relaxing campfire with some good friends, food and drinks. This is an awesome way to also meet new people in your community as well as make new friends and address the many issue that we are facing today.

Our communities are the backbone of our great country and I feel with social media and internet it is the one thing that they have tried to make us over look. From making so we don’t have to leave the house because we can order everything and have it delivered to where most people would rather use facebook and twitter or even text your significant other in the next room instead of getting up and asking him/her the question. When was the last time you invited your neighbor over for a BBQ or attended a local get together? This seems to be the norm today and it also what we are teaching our kids as well so they think that the only social meeting place is the social media platforms.

This is some of the reason we are seeing all the problems and divisions in this country we have gotten away from being a part of our communities and this is what they want so it is easier to divide us and miss lead us. Lets just look at what is happening in our schools. How many of us know what the schools are teaching our kids, do you know if they are being taught common core or if our kids even really know what the constitution means and why it is so important. How many of you knew your kids was doing a walk out to protest the 2nd amendment but because they were not supposed to leave school grounds so they didn’t have to get your permissions.
All of us pay school taxes and should have the right to know what our kids are being taught as well demand the removal of common core teaching that doesn’t teach our kids the real history of our country, where they have removed anything that they deem leaves a blemish on what they say our country is today.
How many people in our community even know that this is happening?
I do get it, most families both parents are working and in some families at least one of them is working a second job which in turn we are tired by the end of the day and trust that our schools are doing their job and teaching our kids right. In some schools the kids aren’t even aloud to bring the textbooks home so we don’t get to see what's in the textbooks. Most schools now require our kids to have Ipads as part of their school supplies do we even know how those are being used in our schools to teach our kids.

As a community we do have a say in matters like this, but only if we are talking to each other and aware that these things are going on. This starts by reaching out to people in our community and socializing. There is so many ways to go about this and it doesn’t have to be a huge event. It can be as simple as a backyard BBQ with a few neighbors and friends and the following weekend invite another set of neighbors and friends and encourage them to start doing the same thing.