My wife and I brought our one year old son to one of his lectures. Maybe thirteen years ago Bob Keeshan was traveling around speaking about public education. You helped raise a generation of children - a generation that's profoundly grateful to you. And his work on behalf of children makes him all the cooler. All you hungry children, now eat it up." going "up to the barn" with Mister Greenjeans and seeing the animals he'd brought to show us. ping-pong balls Bunny Rabbit communicating by banging his face on the desk "There are two little magic words that can open any door with ease/One little word is 'thanks' and the other little word is 'please.'" ". Remember: The jingling keys to the Treasure House. I still have two albums he made when I was a kid - with Dancing Bear and Mister Moose and the Captain on the cover. I wrote him a letter when I was in college about what an influence he'd had on me, and his assistant wrote me back the nicest letter on Mister Moose/Bunny Rabbit stationery.
He taught me so much about being polite and kind to other people. Many of the complex answers sought to those tragedies lies in the attitude of this nation that is ready to throw away one out of every five of our children." We need more advocates for children, rather than advocates for children's products.Ĭaptain Kangaroo was my favorite show when I was little. Are we nuts? Are we ready to take such a resource and toss away one in every five kids, are they our throw-aways? And we wonder about Littleton and Oregon and Kentucky. " "Over twenty percent, almost a quarter of our kids live in this land of plenty, the land of thriving business and industry, the land of booming stock markets, the land of consumer confidence, the land of plenty and promise, over twenty per cent of our kids live in poverty. If we have challenges in our schools, and most of us believe we do, the solution lies in directly addressing those challenges, the solution is not in depriving public schools of the resources to do so and shunting public funds to private, selective institutions. Public schools are, arguably, the most democratic of this nations democratic institutions we serve everybody, that’s everybody. Imagine your school turning away a child because, for whatever reason, you wished to reject him. These private schools are, by nature, selective we will take this student but we will not take that student, picking and choosing, with taxpayer money, money that is taken from, directly from the public school system. We have floating around the spurious notion that the remedy for public school improvement lies in the abandoning of the system, giving taxpayer money to private, selective institutions to educate our children, children who should be educated in the public school system. "More ominous threats can be seen in other states and in the platforms of some national candidates. This will add an additional tear to your eye.
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