What was Measure 66 & 67 About Again?

I recently went to a meeting to get started on a new kind of schooling. AllPrep Early College will pay for your schooling and books of up to about $1400 for school fees and books. What this means is that any student in Oregon could go to a community college and get some college done and paid for and they could also finish high school. Washington and California also do this, in Washington it is known as 'Running Start.' I went to apply as a new student at AllPrep Charter school just yesterday, when the meeting started we were sadly told by one of the councilors at Early College that AllPrep has no money to pay for new students to go to school, and no money to pay for students who are attending colleges around Oregon. I was told that this is because an inquiry was brought to ODE, or Oregon Department of Education, by Sisters School District saying that this charter school is not working and is ruining public education. Money from the state government level was frozen for the duration of the assessment of the accusations brought from this school district and a parent. Charter schools are public schools just like any other public school in Oregon. The difference is that a charter school specializes in certain areas, like AllPrep Early College specializes in 'Early College' as the name states. This charter school is for kids pursuing an education and wanting to excel and proceed in life faster than other students. Legally you can do this because you are a student and are still of the age to go to public school but the government has frozen money for this school because of 'accusations.' The sad part is that 2,000 students already attending AllPrep and students wanting to be accepted into it will not be able to for Spring term because there is no money.
What I cannot fathom is that measure 66 & 67 was voted on and put into action because education needed more money, and they are getting their tax money, but why can't a charter school be paid for students to attend 'public school?' Another thing that bothers me is that men and women at PCC who have graduated are easily able to get money to help pay for school even though they have gone through public education and have gotten what everyone else has gotten. Thinking about that, why can't students like me and many like me get the education everyone else has gotten and that we rightfully deserve?

The Idea of no Opinion

In talking to a friend earlier this day about some of my favorite political talk show hosts and political figures, it became clear to me how so many teens do not think much of politics. Many of the now 16, 17, and 18 year old teens that will vote in the next Presidential election for the first time don't think politics is that important until later in life or just go with the flow of thinking one way, which at this time leans towards the left as in liberal democrats. My guess is that many of the next voters coming of age for the next Presidential election cannot at this time name four founding fathers and what they may have believed in to become someone to stand against Britain and risk everything they had.

I say risk everything they had because all of the founding fathers had a standing in their respective community's. George Washington owned almost 30,000 acres of land by the time he was elected general of the thirteen colonies, if nothing else President Washington had his family to lose, which mattered oh so dearly to him as family does to everyone. I can say that many of the next 'electoral teens' as I would call them did not know that all of the founding fathers were God fearing men, besides Thomas Payne. And them being God fearing men they took divine direction and prayed for God's direction for where to take this country. I will also say that many of the new electoral teens would not know that none of the founding fathers actually wanted power. George Washington was almost made king but refused and gave the power back to the people.

Many politicians running for office these days just want power to make what they want happen or are showed what they get for a reward for making something happen even though that is not what our country is founded on or is even supposed to consider. If you want that go to another country that isn't a Republic, like Iran for example. Supposed rigged elections and people being thrust into power is not what our country is about and many teens don't know that. Many would say that the popular man wins, which in a sense is true, but in the end it is that man or woman who is right and that comes back to the fundamentals of our country who really wins. If not for that then we must hope for the best and plan for the worst. 'Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.'