2006-10-22 04:17:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
Computers! there is so much more availanle information these days. Kids are expected to know things at much earlier ages these days. All the other stuff: sports, sex, cars,drugs, teasing that's still the same. It's just new kids coming in each year doin the same kid stuff.
2006-10-24 21:07:04 · answer #1 · answered by Speed Of Thought 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I agree with most of what "Norman" has to say but I'm not sure if the answer is for everyone who cares to leave the profession. I admit that there have been times when I have thought and still do, that this is not what I ever expected when I went into teaching. But the times change and we have to accept those changes since especially in the case of school attitude I don't think it will ever return to that of the past. I get really frustrated and irritated when I am told "we have to make school fun and entertaining for todays youth." Well, fun and entertaining is not working because the rest of the world is passing us by and no one seems to see the connection. Until parents expecially and society in general begin to place a higher value on education, it will continue it's decline.
All that said, How far in the past were you talking about?
A lot is different from 25, 50, 100 years.
2006-10-22 11:34:33 · answer #2 · answered by wolfmusic 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And you expect me to give an answer in a few words.. you "gotta" be kiddin'.. In the past, school life was somewhat difficult but we studied and we learned.. It was part of our life then and we accepted it.. sometimes begrudgingly but we knew it was necessary... TODAY, however, that feeling is gone and school life is FUN. One does not really have to put a lot of worry about grades because it is almost automatic that we will get an A or at minimum, a B in our grades. The teachers know that we have THEM over the barrel. If they give too many students below a B grade and "heaven forbid" an F, they themselves would be fired so now.. in school. LIVE and let live.. The output of our education system today is now one of the worst in the world and no signs of getting better.
2006-10-22 11:24:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well let me see...when I was a young'un back in the 70's, we used to meet after school to have fist fights, now when kids are pissed off they just show up and blow everyone away with automatic weapons.
Nobody in an authoritative position in school gave a crap that kids were being picked on and bullied, they just waited for the fights to end then drug out and punished the looser.
They actually taught sh-t that mattered, like American History, instead of "social studies". In my history books, there were hundreds of references to George Washington and only a few if any about Martin Luther King, now it is completely the opposite.
You actually had to know how to read, write, and spell to graduate high school.
Half the female population of my school wasn't running around pregnant.
Holidays were celebrated and nobody gave a sh-t if the only Jewish or Muslim kid in the school was offended by it.
You didn't need to have a $300.00 pair of tennis shoes to fit in and make friends.
School buses picked kids up at "bus stops" that they actually had to walk their azzes to in the morning instead of being picked up at the front door like they are today where I live and I'm sure everywhere else as well.
Damn...I could go on forever but I gotta go!!!
2006-10-22 11:34:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
school life in the past did have armed guards at the entrances, and it didnt have metal deceters
2006-10-22 11:26:50 · answer #5 · answered by shortyonwheelz2005 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
past: students were there to learn, were physically punished for bad behavior, teachers taught material, students did their work or else
present: teachers there to babysit, kids their to see friends, not beaten-only get suspended so they get sent home where they wanted to be anyway
2006-10-22 15:33:23 · answer #6 · answered by hambone1985 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋