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What makes a good student? A good lawmaker?
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Posted on Mar 31 2009
As parents we send our kids off to school with the hope that they will excel in their studies. We have one expectation and that is to see that they have good report cards! They go to school on time, volunteer for all extra-curricular activities like Junior Police Officers or stay after school to clean up in the classrooms. They help in the office whenever they can and they even become messengers on campus. They may have done everything under the sun on campus but when they fail to pass their tests, are they still good students? No! They may have demonstrated what is morally right but, being students, failure to pass tests proves that they are academically behind. Academic failure is unacceptable and then they are retained in the same level until they show improvement. It will be great if my kids can excel academically and simultaneously swim with the flow!
What about our lawmakers? We have one expectation of our elected lawmakers and that is to pass significant bills. What makes a good lawmaker? Is it the one who is a good JPO, always cleans the chamber, runs around as messengers but can never muster enough camaraderie to pass a bill on behalf of the precinct from which he/she has been elected to represent and pass bills for? The one who always barks but fails to get an approval on a bill? As a student is to pass their tests, so are you as lawmakers—to pass bills and learn to swim with the flow. If you couldn’t pass bills, then you cannot make laws, therefore you don’t have any business being a lawmaker. Same with students—if you can’t pass tests, you are better off being a farmer. Boy, it will be great to see a former lawmaker wannabe become a productive farmer, if he/she couldn’t be a productive (bill passer) lawmaker.
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Alexandro Sablan[/B]
[I]Dandan, Saipan[/I]
