Imagine...

I was just reading minivanmom´s (www.morethanaminivanmom.blogspot.com) post about her son getting an "action plan" in school for daydreaming and it not only made me mad, but actually sad too. Have we really come to the point where we are going to punish children for having a lively imagination? Are we going to discourage them from having dreams? Do we, as a society, really think that these children will just imagine and dream during "after school hours"? We do not need our children to learn everything by the book. These kids are great at Googling and there is a wealth of information out there, accessible for them almost at any time, any place. We need to give them the tools to use this knowledge, filter out what is "nice to know" and "need to know" information. We should be helping them reach their goals and pursue their dreams. NOT telling them it´s wrong to dream! Didn´t Martin Luther King Day, followed by Inauguration Day teach us anything about the importance of dreams?