Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006 | 7:19 a.m.
On Tuesday, Nov. 21, I participated in the Sun Youth Forum at the Las Vegas Convention Center. As a teacher, I am deeply disturbed by the amount of negativity that our society casts upon the educational system we have in place and the paranoid demand for its accountability. I am also overwhelmed by the lack of respect professional teachers receive from everywhere they turn.
Having made this statement, I can also say that what I saw this day from our kids in Clark County gives me some degree of gratification. For all the parents who had a child attend this forum, you can be extremely proud of what I saw. The hundreds of young men and women who shared their opinions at this forum definitely proved there is good happening in our schools. The individuals who want to criticize our system of education would have found nothing negative to say about what happened at the Sun Youth Forum.
Jim Hayes, Las Vegas
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