Comments on: Suspects Sought After Stone Marker Destroyed

By: gary chamberlain

gary chamberlain — Mon, 16 Sep 2013 00:41:09 +0000

Here’s a link to a Adopt-A-Highway group that deserves a huge “shout-out” for their efforts to restore the beauty to “America the Beautiful”!

http://adotblog.blogspot.com/2013/07/adopt-highway-is-part-of-curtis-family.html

With more folks like this, ADOT can claim to have a deserving, taxpayer funded Adopt-A-Highway Program.

Eighty-five bags of trash in 5 hours ……. how can the ADOT Adopt-A-Highway Program claim that, awareness, education and participation is changing the litter culture?

We need more stories about parents, teachers and businesses that are aggressively and regularly teaching the anti-litter lesson. Maybe field trips for students should include picking up trash?

ADOT, could you share some education stories in the home, schools and businesses with us? ADOT, without these stories, groups like this will “forever” be picking up others messes!

This is a truly good group of folks!

Gary Chamberlain
Cornville AZ – USA
Vietnam veteran

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:17:22 +0000

weird neighbors in arizona, weirder people in rimrock

By: Donna

Donna — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:13:37 +0000

Who pays for this? After the people are caught that did it will they pay for it?

By: gary chamberlain

gary chamberlain — Sun, 15 Sep 2013 19:22:50 +0000

Quality education starts at home. All of this and other bad behavior is a result of the parents that either haven’t taught children or children who haven’t been willing to learn how to respect themselves or others.

When parents teach children lessons about the consequences of their behavior then quality teachers will be able to teach these children.

A quality student isn’t the result of expensive schools, funded teachers unions, over-paid and under performing school administrators, school boards, teachers and expensive sports programs.

When businesses aren’t able to find adequate employees that are punctual, dependable, drug-free, reliable, trustworthy with a genuine work ethic who has the ability to communicate, read, write and do simple math problems, someone has failed to provide the basics required for survival. Add in proper dress code, personal appearance and the picture gets far more complicated.

If you have a conversation with businesses owners in your community they may be willing to share their hiring frustration with you.

I don’t say this to be mean spirited, I say it because it’s the message I hear from businesses I work with across the country.

It’s time for parents to get back to being parents and to quit being your child’s best friend, our nation’s future depends on it.

It would be a good first step for parents and their children to have dinner with each other: Though I’m not LDS, I will tell you that many years ago my wife and I adopted a LDS program that our children told us made a difference to them and it’s called “Family Home Evening” as I recall.

Gary Chamberlain
Cornville AZ-USA
Vietnam veteran