Public Schools?

Question

how can we make them better

Answer 1

Make getting into them a challenge and a privilege.
Clear out the clutter, human, curricular, and administrative, and buildings and furniture and junk.

Dramatically change the curriculum to teach thinking skills of the trivium and the quadrivium first and foremost. Focus on English competence at a much higher level, reading at a much higher level. Make the schools longer days, longer years, and really serious about education. quit wasting the year teaching the tests.

One test at the end of the year to determine what the next step is. Make it really serious. Only those who are talented, study hard and work hard move up to the highest levels. Quit teaching to the lowest common denominator. Feed all kids a healthy appealing fresh meal ala "the naked chef" and his work in England, for breakfast, lunch and maybe even dinner each day. Quality food and nutrition pays huge dividends in increased learning and fewer behavior problems. Feeding all children well eliminates the embarrassment of the poor children which often makes them skip eating the free meals when their classmates do not.

Ah, speaking of behavior problems, immediately remove them from the classroom, take them out on work crews and make them clean their community. Hard labor can help change attitudes and perspectives.

Eliminiate busing. Return to neighborhood schools. The parents and children can be more of a community and participate together far better this way, and you cut out huge expenses of bus purchases, maintenance, and all the employees and benefits and retirements that go with it. and cut out the enviro pollution of school buses, and the kids do not have to be on school buses for hours each day, so they can get more needed sleep, and not breathe the fumes.

There is much more to be done. Come back when you have completed this part of the assignment.

Answer 2

I think that the administration if going as far as the political head of education should stop letting society (parents, media, other schools in other areas) influence the desicion of doing what is normal and right for all the students and staff. Another factor i think has to do with pay. If the teachers get paid more or at a reasonable amount, there would be more teachers whom enjoy teaching and helping students rather that doing the average duties just to get by. There needs to be more organization in certain schools because, yes, there are good schools but the majoriyt has many issues.

Answer 3

1. Teachers/staff need to open their eyes and see what the hell is going on with their students around them and how much greif all of the 'non conformists' get from all of 'the in croud' and get it through their thick skulls that the media and peer pressure is taking over the world.
2. Teachers/staff need to pay more attention to teaching, not their own personal life. They are here to teach, not be social with their students. (Yes, I've actulay had a teacher that is in her early twentys that hangs out with a few people in my grade...)
3. Teachers/staff need to get out of peoples lives out of school unless they ask for help. Say some kid is having trouble at home and doesn't want even more trouble at school, yet the school is attacking him with twenty questions every day? I've bene in a similar situation, and it is os hard...
4. Teachers/staff need to explain the material taught in class better and think about individual students. Some kids don't understand things as well as everyone else, and need extra help. Sometimes kids don't get that chance to get the help they need, and it cna drag their grades down.
5. Janitors need to clean the bathrooms better. Seriously, its gross.
Well, thats all I can think of, sorry

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6./// I just thought about the most important one: freedom.
Students need ot be able to be free, and not be told what they should have to belive in their school. Religious, political, sexuality, racial, cultureal, and any other type of diverse standard does NOT interfear with education.

Answer 4

Sadly I dont think we should be trying to make them better. I believe that it is not in the role of goverment does not extend over education. Sadly America is way to dependent on public schools for us to just get rid of them.

Answer 5

What's wrong with public schools? I went to public schools, even got a scholarship becuase of it. I like public school as is.

Answer 6

Lose the "teach to the test" mentality. I've been scoring tests from various states for the past couple of years and many schools are just trying to get their test scores up. The "no child left behind" BS is causing more kids to fall between the cracks, and we just need to get rid of it. Teach kids to solve problems (math, life, and otherwise) and be creative thinkers. That's what they're going to need to make it in society!

Answer 7

Schools are better than they were years ago due to accountability from the state and federal govt. ....that being said doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement...but society must value education before it will improve. You don't see many top officials or executives thanking their teachers....ironic isn't it?

Answer 8

i think one thing that is very important is for the school officials to know that there are children of different cutlers in their school,to learn a little about these cultures and stop assuming that all children are the same,think and do the same thing,its ludicrous to me that this is over looked.

Answer 9

Public executions of people who say things like "we be fine"

Answer 10

The schools aren't the problem... the parents who send their atrocious offspring to inhabit the school are.