If you could change one thing about education in schools, what would it be?

Question

How would you go about doing it? (high school only)

Please answer seriously

Answer 1

Make smaller class sizes. This is easy to fix. Just Add More teachers. And only qualified teachers. What we call the cream of the crop.

Answer 2

They put 13 years into teaching you and spend about one day discussing careers. Kinda of ironic dont ya think. They should explain that if you dont wanna be living in a van down by the river and working in a warehouse lifting boxes over 100 lbs all day then you need to get busy planning. And they should keep on you and make your family draw up a career plan so as soon as you leave high school you have a good idea of what will be your purpose and have the full backing of your family.

Answer 3

I would make the teachers crack down harder on learning and getting home work done. Even though when i was in high school i hated the teachers for making me do extra work and all that, BUT i learned that i wish my teachers would have been harder on m with learning and not sleeping in class. Now i am in the military and i've learned how important school is. So, my answer is that i wish the teachers in my high school would have made us be more descipline and make us do more work and not let us turn in late work and make up work and re-do tests unless we really came in after or before school and show the incentive

Answer 4

High schools would teach the History of Popular Music. I think it would provide alot of cultural background knowledge. And give kids alot of insight into how and why society and pop couture are the way they are. And it would display a broader view on how musical styles combined with fashion, etc, tie in to what's going on in society.
I beleive it is important for people to be aware of what they are exposing themselves to. I believe that alot of young adults don't realize what sort of an effect they are having on society by the apathetic way in which they act/dress, etc., based on styles that are influenced by some of the popular musical artists of today.
I would suggest that either music teachers would be trained to do it, or history teachers, or both.

Answer 5

For high school. the curriculum is more advanced now then it ever was in America, or at least when I attended.

I might suggest not putting such a large focus on sports, and more pre-college level studies or classes which can be credited to a degree.

Answer 6

I would take 1 billion dollars from the Defense Budget and give it to public school nation wide, by dividing 1 billion by number of high schools (public) and give an equal ammount to all schools regardless of size and population of the school

Answer 7

I'd change the time of entrance, yeah THey should let us in by 10:00 and let us go out by 3:00, we don't really need to spend all that time at school!!!!

Answer 8

Mandatory parent involvement. I know people are way to busy in their hectic lives for this but it is the best solution. Our schools aren't failing because we aren't funding them enough or because it is a poorly run government agency, they are failing because parents are failing their kids. The involvement could be as simple as a parent signature page on homework or as elaborate as weekly confrences.

Answer 9

I wish they would revoke No Child left Behind, before every child really is left behind. It unfairly targets urban schools, and bases and educational success on ONE standardize test, not even grades.

Answer 10

Music and Art would be required credits for graduation

They are just as important as the others. It gives appreciation and you never know what talent you will pull out.

It would not be the first budget I would cut.