Bad economic times have even brought this issue into the public arena for debate. At issue is the apparent lack of funds for tuition at the Northern Marianas College for all those who wish to acquire or hone their skills through courses at the local college.<\/p>\n
The irony seem to be sticking its tongue out from more than two decades of towering speeches about the importance of educating our people. We’ve heard these speeches in graduation exercises, various school events, including simple ceremonies proclaiming “education week”.<\/p>\n
Yet, when it really comes down to putting our mouths where our money is, so to speak, we buckle under the new close-of-the-century grand excuse of “no more funds”, therefore, even tuition fees must go. How ironic the apparent grand contradiction after years of bully pulpitting about the importance and essence of education.
\nBureaucrats and politicians are long on promises, though awfully short when tasked to take their place on the firing line.<\/p>\n
Sadly, we know that they just don’t know what to make of the need to get our education and training programs organized, prioritized, defined and refined. No wonder there’s greater focus on saving money for more wasteful government spending over the difficult task of downsizing expenditure to ensure that pronouncements about educating our people are met forthwith.<\/p>\n
That these isles and its people are going through the most difficult period in its reconstruction history since World War II, logically, it stands to reason for bureaucrats and politicians to buckle down to the real task of leadership to ensure that we don’t lose sight of our commitment to educate our people. This task includes educating the young, career employees and retirees who wish to make good by working in the private sector.<\/p>\n
For instance, while we’ve caught up with making computer literacy an integral part of instructions, we leave behind those who fell through the cracks–high school or college drop-outs–to fend for themselves. We’ve treated this drawback with more speeches as though the people listening to our apparently superficial messages are zombies and deadwood who haven’t a mind of their own.<\/p>\n
It’s time to redefine our goals in providing windows of opportunities for all indigenous people who wish to acquire lifetime skills. Through local resolve we can actually slam the brakes on wasteful spending so we can reduce tuition fees in these difficult times when every penny in the family pocketbook counts by leaps and bounds. Si Yuus Maase`!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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