Are schools the best way to educate and prepare our children?

Question

I am a substitute teacher, and I see so many kids just turn their brains off in the classroom. I know kids have a lot to offer, but I wonder if schools are serving them well enough. How could schools be improved?

Answer 1

I am a sophmore in high school and i mean i doubt that your looking for an answer from a kid and all but i figure if you want to know about a student might as well hear from one right? Anyway, i used to tune out of my classes and just dose off, i used to do it a lot too when i was in eigth grade and all, but as my years progressed i found my classes a lot more interesting. Now each year is different in regards to the fact that high school students will have a different mentality then elementary or middle school kids but i can tell you from a sophmore/high school student stand point classes seem a lot better when the teacher is an actual person. Let me explain, if the teacher talks to the student as if there a friend and not just someone there teaching the student is most likely going to be like "oh well this guys pretty cool...." and they listen more as well as respect that teacher, as for the actual learning part, you cannot force a studnet to partake in an activity but i find that when my teachers use demonstrations using the students themselves or use goofy examples i tend to not only tune in more but remember the stuff a bit more.

hope thats an answer that your looking for

Answer 2

The schools will improve when the kids get better parents, and when the judicial system decides to leave the schools alone. This may sound a little harsh, but in many instances teafchers and administrators are so worried about not doing the PROPER job (thanks to the courts and parents looking to make a quick buck), they do little or nothing. Kids see this as a non-caring attitude by the teacher, so if the techer doesn't care, why should the student? Kids aren't stupid... they are usually VERY accurate judges of human nature. They will figure out how to get the most by doing the least (which has ALWAYS been the case...even when I was a student many years ago).

Improving schools is also equated to reducing the number of government programs in place, and allowing Christianity to again be a portion of how students learn. These things will probably never happen, but I have been in the game long enough to know what rules need to be changed.

Answer 3

I'm sorry about you're school but if we fail and our school. They will make you bring up you're grade. I feel that teachers need to be payed a million dollars for what they do. If there were no teachers we wouldn't have doctors, scientists, writers, etc. As for teaching, I think teachers need to become more down to earth and be more cooler with the student. It may be a little crazy but by dressing in style, changing you're language in a more smootha nd cool way may just make the students like you. also by making the lesson plans a little more exciting and fun can help. Even though it may not teach the students everything it will make it more interesting. I knowthis may be hard fro a substitute but I'm just saying for permanent teachers that this should drive the kids from sleeping mode to actual all ears on the teacher.

Answer 4

Wait wait... you asked two different questions there.
Are schools the best way to educate our children?
Are schools the best way to prepare our children?

Schools prepare children for social interactions. In that regard, they are doing their job. Schools are necessary to ensure people are properly prepared to enter society as functioning adults.

Education on the other hand would be an individual concept. Students learn in different ways (auditory, k-tactual, and visual)... often using multiple learning channels helps commit the lessons to memory. The students that are intelligent and motivated will educate themselves. The ones that don't find something they love need to be directed into a variety of experiences.... they'll find their own path.

I think that LIFE is the best way to educate a child while schools are the best way to prepare a child for society.

As for improving schools?... Improve the quality of teachers... a good teacher doesn't try to teach..... they try to motivate the students to love what they are learning. If you can do that... then the students will educate themselves.

Answer 5

The schools here are terrible. I mean there is so much peer pressure and bullying. This has happened to my son and I have gone to the teachers and school board . They do not listen. I think this is why they turn their brains off. Because they are worrying so much about other kids and how they treat them. But I fixed that problem. I homeschool him now. And he does alot better. He learns alot more then he ever did in school.

Answer 6

Of course it's not "dumping your responsibilities" if you educate a child to become self-sufficient. Isn't that the whole point of parenting? We want them to be able to fend for themselves by the time they turn 18 or 21 or 25. Everything we do, such as teaching them to cook a meal, helping them manage their time and money, modeling good values and behavior, or planning their future, is supposed to contribute in some way toward that goal. It starts the day they are born and continues until they leave home (at least).

Answer 7

First of all, the teachers need to be motivated. The problem often stems from poor upper management causing teachers to waste a lot of time or feel apathetic. The rhetoric and upper management B.S. and bureaucracy often makes good teachers go bad. A motivated and excited teacher will motivate and excite their students. Period.

Answer 8

Pay the teachers more, but also raise the standards to become a teacher. I ve had some really good teachers but some pretty bad ones too that make kids not want to learn.

Answer 9

Making Learning Fun Besides Lecture After Lecture.... Different kids learn different!

Answer 10

i completly agree. Im in 11th grade and i always have a hard time focusing and learning in school. Im eiather too tired cause its early in the morning, cant focus cause im bored, or sick of working. i think school should be 2 hours later and also there would need to be longer breaks between classes.