What is wrong with school these days?
By cheryl07
@cheryl07 (54)
United States
January 31, 2007 9:09pm CST
I was at school tonight to pick my son up from wrestling practice. I overheard a group of parents discussing all the problems with our school district. Now, one says they are pushing too much on the kids on a daily basis. They are trying to cram too much into their minds at a time. In the same breath, says they aren't challenging her child. (What?) And I also hear about how the teachers don't get paid squat, so they don't feel the need to do squat? How is this? If you are a teacher, and you decided you wanted to be a teacher, then teach. If you don't like it, and you feel the need to take it out our children, then you should not be teaching. You are doing nothing good for our children in your position and would be better off out of the district! Let someone with some passion help develop our kids' minds. So, is you child actually learning at school? Or does it seem like they are just cramming and not really 'learning'?
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3 responses
@HighPriestess (739)
• Melbourne, Florida
1 Feb 07
Everyone agrees that children today are far more advanced than kids where in the past. However, school has not changed for hundreds of years. On one hand they are shoving way too much information early on. It's not that I think the kids can't handle it, in fact kids get bored. I do not understand why we use a cookie cutter form of education for 12 years. By the 8th grade, it's very evident what kids are going to be scientists, and which ones are going to be laborers. I think that by the time kids are in high school, they should be focusing on what they enjoy most instead of being forced to learn things that they won't retain anyway. I don't think it's the teachers fault. They are very limited by rules and regulations, and bombarded with absurd corriculims. I feel that the entire public school system needs to be revamped.
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@cheryl07 (54)
• United States
1 Feb 07
Good response. I agree. You know, my daughter is in kindergarten, and right now, she reads. The teacher said by the end of the year, she will be able to read, well, by now, she reads smaller words, and if it is a word she doesn't know, she can sound it out! And when they get older, I really think that would be a good idea. Start them out with more interesting stuff than having them take classes that really don't matter. It seems like those grades are just to fill some kind of 'void'.
@wenkinnoc (482)
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4 Feb 07
I think there should also be agrater emphasis on learning and the value of it. Kids study, and learn and become for the most part bored, effectively only working becuase they are coerced itno it either by the fear of not getting a good job, through discipline, high family expectations etc.
Kids today should be taught the value of knowledge and self-improvement for their own benefit. Also there should be a greater range of choices of practical skills, more apprenticeships etc, and hands on experience in chosen careers.
@XxAngelxX (2830)
• Canada
1 Feb 07
I feel my children are definitely learning at school although there seems to be more cramming than when I was in school. They have a lot more homework, especially in the elementary grades. They seem to be learning things at an earlier age as well.
