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Margaret Chase Smith Essay David Richards Margaret Chase Smith Library, Davidr@Mcslibrary.Org Maine Policy Review Volume 19 | Issue 1 2010 Margaret Chase Smith Essay David Richards Margaret Chase Smith Library, [email protected] Chelsea Bernard Terrance H. Walsh Stacy Sullivan Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr Part of the American Politics Commons Recommended Citation Richards, David, Chelsea Bernard, Terrance H. Walsh, and Stacy Sullivan. "Margaret Chase Smith Essay." Maine Policy Review 19.1 (2010) : 8 -15, https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/vol19/iss1/3. This Essay is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. THE MARGARET CHASE SMITH ESSAY TheThe MargaretMargaret ChaseChase SmithSmith EssayEssay on terror, leadership, civic engagement, competition well after the election. Introduction foreign affairs, civil rights, energy, and This was not intended as a student refer- women in politics. For the 200–2009 endum on the Obama administration, contest, the presidential election and but for some essayists that was what it by David Richards incessant talk of change served as the became. Others approached the topic inspiration for the essay prompt. Tying more broadly, considering what reforms to a 195 quote from Senator Smith not American society required, irrespective of very year since 1996, the Margaret to fear the inevitability of change, the who became president. Recently rereading EChase Smith Library has sponsored prompt asked: “What changes do you the essays a year after judging the contest an essay contest. The program started think the new administration will need and a year and a half after the election, in the wake of Senator Smith’s death in to make, and we the people embrace, to I am struck by how dated they already 1995, when donations in her honor began reform American society?” The question, sound. It seems as though the enthusiasm to arrive. The library decided to dedicate or more likely the enthusiasm generated of the historic moment has largely a portion of these gifts to establish an by the campaigns, produced the greatest waned and the idealism greatly dissipated. essay competition for graduating Maine number of entries to date. Soaring talk of hope and change has high school seniors. Today, cash prizes The three top entries in the 13th already metastasized into partisanship range from $25 for honorable mentions annual Margaret Chase Smith Essay and degenerated into gridlock. to $500 for first prize. contest follow. Interestingly, they represent In closing, the Margaret Chase Smith Initially, the contest asked partici- the continuum of responses. One essay Library thanks the editors of the Maine pants to address “issues relating to public advocates change through more govern- Policy Review for once again sharing the service and responsibilities of citizenship.” ment intervention. Once calls for greater views of Maine’s newest young voters with For the first three competitions, the theme individual responsibility. The third is a its readers. It is our hope that by valuing remained unchanged. Eventually tiring of blend of the two perspectives. their voices, we are affirming the rewards the sameness of the essays and with an The first prize winner is Chelsea of active citizenship for a rising generation important anniversary approaching, a new Bernard, a recent graduate of Dirigo High of future leaders. That is a legacy of which topic was selected in 1999. Because 2000 School in Dixfield. Placing second was Senator Smith would be pleased. marked 50 years since Senator Smith’s Terrence Walsh of Acadia Christian famous “Declaration of Conscience” School in Trenton. Third place went to denouncing the excesses of McCarthyism, Stacy Sullivan of Bonny Eagle High David Richards is the assistant director of the students were invited to write their own School in Standish. Margaret Chase Smith Library in Skowhegan, reflections on conscience.T he topic struck Before reading the essays, a note Maine. a chord and submissions soared. on the contest timeline is necessary. Since then, themes have continued to Although the essay prompt was formu- change, with the library staff picking a lated in the run up to the November new, timely topic annually. They have 200 presidential vote, most students included science and technology, the war probably only became aware of the · MAINE POLICY REVIEW · Winter/Spring 2010 View current & previous issues of MPR at: mcspolicycenter.umaine.edu/?q=MPR THE MARGARET CHASE SMITH ESSAY F IRST P LACE E SSAY necessity for change grounded itself in an subjects—math and reading. Focusing on abundance of examples. I began to draw only two areas drains funding and energy parallels between the turbulent 1960s from worthy study of the humanities, What Needs and the current state of our country, a the sciences, and the arts—areas that country poised for new direction in the enrich humanity and society. Also, the midst of an approaching chaos. Just as punishments inflicted on school districts to Change, the 1960s uprooted the complacency that fail to meet their progress goals inherent in the era of poodle skirts and merely encourage schools with lower- and What jukeboxes, America now faces the chal- income and lower-performing students lenge of renewing promise after a period to set low standards for achievement of counterfeit ease. Curled up on my (www.nochildleftbehind.com/education- Will It Take? couch, I anticipated the changes that the articles/:(-Claims-Made-in-Opposition- new presidential administration would to-NCLB). By Chelsea Bernard need to initiate in matters of education, A more holistic approach would the economy, and the environment. encompass students of all incomes, abili- A common adage claims that “educa- ties, and interests. The severe need for ense with anticipation, I spent election tion is the great equalizer.” But does this competent educators can be remedied Tnight shirking homework in favor of assertion ring true when education itself by implementing performance-based pay, snagging a front-row seat to the unfolding isn’t equal? In theory, every American creating a national scholarship fund for of history. After spending more than child receives an education; that is, each aspiring teachers, and rewarding those a year closely monitoring the election is granted the opportunity to attend a who choose to tackle the most disadvan- process, faithfully following the months state-funded public school. Unfortunately, taged schools in need of quality instruction of speeches and scandals, America was many of these schools fail to provide (Leigh and Mead 2005). Alternative educa- about to announce its decision. adequate teaching and resources in order tion programs for students whose interests In these final moments, my thoughts for students to flourish, especially in the and abilities lie outside of the traditional skipped over decades past. I considered the depths of the inner cities, where income academic spectrum should be provided. history of reform: sweeping changes that and teacher performance tend to be low. This would give these students the oppor- revolutionized the rights of women and And every year, more than one million tunity to learn a trade or at a decelerated, minorities, implemented the public educa- students abandon their education. High hands-on pace. Education should not be tional system, prevented private business school drop-outs are twice as likely to approached as if “one size-fits-all.” from swallowing millions of average workers, fall below the poverty line (thereby However, school districts can only do and much more. I remembered Andrew stressing welfare resources) than high so much. Where the public school system Jackson’s crusade for the “common man,” school graduates and eight times as likely fails, parents need to rise to the occasion. expanding voting rights while protecting to be incarcerated as high school gradu- Parents must take an active role in their popular democracy and individual liberties. ates (AYPF n.d.; Bridgeland, Dilulio and children’s education. Enforcing home- I imagined Abraham Lincoln’s furrowed Morison 2006). work and resisting the technological lures brow as he signed the Emancipation These alarming statistics mandate ranging from video games to the Internet Proclamation, blazing the path to freedom government action. Though No Child are important for student success. And not for an oppressed people. I contemplated Left Behind attempted to remedy the a single government policy can replace the Theodore Roosevelt’s commitment to trust problem by enacting nationwide education love and support of a parental figure. busting, his dedication to dissolving standards, the program needs to be reeval- The education of today directly influ- monopolistic corporations after the perva- uated and reformed. As of now, the legisla- ences the economy of tomorrow. Our sive corruption of the “Gilded Age.” tion ignores individual needs of students, minds are our capital. But before educa- As 200 years worth of American basing the definition of success on the tion can affect the economy, our current history flooded my brain, the overarching results of standardized testing in only two crisis needs to be resolved. Although no View current & previous issues of MPR at: mcspolicycenter.umaine.edu/?q=MPR Volume 19, Number 1 · MAINE POLICY REVIEW · 9 THE MARGARET CHASE SMITH ESSAY easy solution exists, a number of political employment. One way to increase job On an individual level Americans steps can be taken in order to decrease availability lies in national, government- need to increase their eco-consciousness. subsequent damage. subsidized projects (such as repair of the We all have a civic duty to investigate the The deregulation enacted by the Interstate Highway System). Another wealth of information available online (or Bush administration must be reversed. involves rewarding businesses that employ elsewhere), and incorporate that informa- The wanton actions of business executives Americans with lower taxes rates than tion into our everyday lives, striving to exploited the economy in order to fill their those that outsource job opportunities to negatively affect the environment as little coffers: facilitating the mortgage/lending foreign countries.
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