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Education.
8 hours a day, five days a week. Add homework, add friends and our education system does more parenting than parents do.
So what do we do?
We spend more money on computers and all this other junk to get kids to learn.
In india they dont use computers or calculators and it gets them farther than kids in the US.
The solution?
Boot camp.
First grade is boot camp.
You will reply yes sir and yes mam. You will not speak unless spoken to. You will respect your elders. You will suffer consequences for bad behavior. Thankyou is the correct reply to receiving a gift. Your Welcome is the correct reply to receiving a thankyou. When you bump into someone you will say sorry. You will not speak slang in school. You will not speak another language in school.
Kids who repeatedly mis behave, cause classroom disturbances that are deterimental to the learning of other kids will be sent to a real boot camp. Their parents are obviousely unable to control them and they need discipline in their lives.
We could enhance the education ten fold by teaching discipline. Class can be fun and learning can be fun. You can have fun in school. But you will respect your teachers.
The next thing? With students who are better mannered good teachers will come back to the education system. We can raise the salary for teachers allowing them to live a better life.
The actual curriculum can be advanced from touchy feely ignorant lessons, and be more direct.
We need redesign our education system to allow for learning and not allow for numbing teaching.
There are so many teachers out there which give retarded assignments to kids. They idiotically create assignments to find out whether kids read the book, such as placing sticky notes in the books where main ideas and relationships between characters are instead of actually spending time with the kids in a classroom discussion. If you can't tell that a student has read a book after a 15 minute discussion I'd be amazed at the ability of the students who did not read the book. I am not sure if the teachers actually get kick backs from 3M from getting their kids to waste so many sticky notes. One very good english teacher made everyone read their book reports or speaches in front of the class. First it promoted good public speaking habits, lowered stage fright and easily found people who had copied each other.
The next thing is that we should not allow for standardized testing in our schools. They make teachers teach for the test instead of teaching for the foundation of young lives. I believe I have spent more time on teachers telling me how to correctly bubble in an answer and how to decipher questions that are purposely meant to confuse the student into giving the wrong answer than actual teaching.
Our education system = our crime rate, our job oppurtunities, our economy and the fate of America.
We used to be a country that allowed innovation and bright minds to grow and do great things. Now all we do is hopelessly stuff piles of worthless homework on them and they have no time for self exploration. I can honestly said that I have learned more by my self than from school. More homework and more tests has never been a good solution to the problem of kids not understanding math. A teacher should be able to solve hundreds of problems in front of kids in order to teach them the correct way to solve a math problem.
There are many kids who are able to grasp it with only one example being shown. But more kids need repetition to understand concepts.
Who else thinks our education system needs to be radically re-designed?
8 hours a day, five days a week. Add homework, add friends and our education system does more parenting than parents do.
So what do we do?
We spend more money on computers and all this other junk to get kids to learn.
In india they dont use computers or calculators and it gets them farther than kids in the US.
The solution?
Boot camp.
First grade is boot camp.
You will reply yes sir and yes mam. You will not speak unless spoken to. You will respect your elders. You will suffer consequences for bad behavior. Thankyou is the correct reply to receiving a gift. Your Welcome is the correct reply to receiving a thankyou. When you bump into someone you will say sorry. You will not speak slang in school. You will not speak another language in school.
Kids who repeatedly mis behave, cause classroom disturbances that are deterimental to the learning of other kids will be sent to a real boot camp. Their parents are obviousely unable to control them and they need discipline in their lives.
We could enhance the education ten fold by teaching discipline. Class can be fun and learning can be fun. You can have fun in school. But you will respect your teachers.
The next thing? With students who are better mannered good teachers will come back to the education system. We can raise the salary for teachers allowing them to live a better life.
The actual curriculum can be advanced from touchy feely ignorant lessons, and be more direct.
We need redesign our education system to allow for learning and not allow for numbing teaching.
There are so many teachers out there which give retarded assignments to kids. They idiotically create assignments to find out whether kids read the book, such as placing sticky notes in the books where main ideas and relationships between characters are instead of actually spending time with the kids in a classroom discussion. If you can't tell that a student has read a book after a 15 minute discussion I'd be amazed at the ability of the students who did not read the book. I am not sure if the teachers actually get kick backs from 3M from getting their kids to waste so many sticky notes. One very good english teacher made everyone read their book reports or speaches in front of the class. First it promoted good public speaking habits, lowered stage fright and easily found people who had copied each other.
The next thing is that we should not allow for standardized testing in our schools. They make teachers teach for the test instead of teaching for the foundation of young lives. I believe I have spent more time on teachers telling me how to correctly bubble in an answer and how to decipher questions that are purposely meant to confuse the student into giving the wrong answer than actual teaching.
Our education system = our crime rate, our job oppurtunities, our economy and the fate of America.
We used to be a country that allowed innovation and bright minds to grow and do great things. Now all we do is hopelessly stuff piles of worthless homework on them and they have no time for self exploration. I can honestly said that I have learned more by my self than from school. More homework and more tests has never been a good solution to the problem of kids not understanding math. A teacher should be able to solve hundreds of problems in front of kids in order to teach them the correct way to solve a math problem.
There are many kids who are able to grasp it with only one example being shown. But more kids need repetition to understand concepts.
Who else thinks our education system needs to be radically re-designed?