what do you suggest americans could do to help out the failing school systems. should it not be our responsibility to make sure this is done, without counting on the rich to see that its done.
2007-01-05 06:45:09 · 6 answers · asked by wisdom 3 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Privitization. If the school system were handled on a voucher system with school's competing to get students, there would be an increase in quality education. The schools would need to be regulated, but the way our government approaches it now, with a focus on test results instead of REAL results, is what is tearing our kids down.
2007-01-05 06:54:47 · answer #1 · answered by loggrad98 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kids are lazy now-a-days. Im not sure it can be helped. If kids were taught, not told, than I think that might help. Also, I think parents are a key part here. Instead of getting your kids into video games, get them into books. I am a senior in HS right now, and I see a lot of sad things. A few days ago, a guy was reading in class and pronounced herb with the "H" at the beginning and than couldn't read sweat... shesh...
P.S. Basing scores on tests is wrong. In Arizona, we have an exit test called the AIMS. Sophomores take it when seniors are the ones that are supposed to take it. Sophomores don't even know half of whats in the test...
2007-01-05 14:55:36 · answer #2 · answered by Will Bleed For Kicks 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Every year School Boards and system Administrators develop some new and innovative plan to do something. They always fail and the next school year you get a new plan. Its only Bullshrit to maintain their bureaucracies and their mundane simple little power spheres . The only innovative approach that I've read about is to pay students to go to school and to give them monetary rewards for achieving. The whole capitalist economy functions on monetary reward and we are supposed to believe that kids have learned from their parents that attendance and grades are supposed to have some higher intrinsic value. If you want improvement PAY THE KIDS.
2007-01-05 15:44:58 · answer #3 · answered by Rja 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Choice is the best thing that can happen to U.S. government schools. Choice brings standards. Legal guardians should be able to shop for a school that works hard.
p.s. Herb can be correctly pronounced with an "h" sound, dear.
2007-01-05 14:55:50 · answer #4 · answered by lookingforinfo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think that every year they should have a class to have the children think more about
thinking about what its like to have to try to understans each other
like where someone gets up in front of the whole class when everyones talking about how we are all doing things for each other by remembering what we learned in school
kinda like talking about how someone from another country we cant understand and what we know we have in common
the way it feels to have the same languauge
how good was that?!$%
2007-01-05 15:00:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Enforcement of the no child left behind act.
2007-01-05 14:58:33 · answer #6 · answered by Leon Clemens 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋