I can't believe the poor quality of answers the last time I asked, so...?

Question

... I'm going to ask again, What would you do to improve our Ecuation system?

I added comments saying why I disagreed with most of the answers, feel free to browse and respond.

Oops. Hey I never said that I was perfect. Typos happen to all of us. Errors don't detract from critical thinking do they? Maybe thats the key to my question after all.... Hmmmm...

OK I bare my chest, throw your daggers in and see where it gets you.

Quality is not about perfection. Sorry, but I think I'm starting to get the answer on my own. You can throw your two cents in, if you're quick.

Answer 1

Honestly, I read through the other answers, and they didn't seem all bad. You may not have agreed with them - that's your prerogative - but they weren't poor quality. Actually, with the answers I've seen elsewhere, they were approaching stellar quality.

My number one suggestion - let the teachers teach. The administration should be doing just that - administrating - and letting the teachers teach their students. For crying out loud, why should teachers have to go through so much training if they're not going to be allowed to use it?

This is one of my main complaints about the schools in our area, and one of the reasons that my son doesn't attend them. (There are other reasons as well, including health related reasons.) He has had incredible teachers in a fabulous school, and he has had teachers that were so restricted on what they could do that he begged to be taken out of the school - he was that bored.

There are other things too...but that would be my number one recommendation. In charter and private schools all over the country, teachers are allowed to do what they do best, and their students and schools are thriving. In the schools that I know of that are suffering, the poor results are due mainly to teachers being restricted and to parents not caring a lick about their children's education.

My parents are teachers - national board certified - and these are the two things that they bring up the most as well. They've actually given me curriculum that they either no longer have time to use or aren't allowed to use...and they are some of my son's favorite activities.

Well, based on your previous question and comments, I'm suire there's something in here you'll be able to rip apart...but that's my answer.

Answer 2

I have 3 children 1 that is going into k-5 this year in a private Christian school, 1 that has been home schooled up until this year and she will start the private school in the fall also. the other is in the public schools because has a mental disability and so he is in what is called the FMD unit. My main #1 problem with the school is lack of parental involvement, on a scale from 1-10 it is a 2 and the only reason that it is that high is because I got a flier for every single fund-raiser that the school did but had to call the last week to find out when the last day was.

Answer 3

Yikes...Ecuation?

Sorry, I couldn't ignore that. I can't stand poor spelling. I used to be a teacher in the very system that you are asking about.
I believe that the biggest problem we have in the American education system is that it is a right instead of a privilege. Kids/parents who are not prepared each day, who waste instructional time with discipline problems, and who in general don't give a crap should get kicked out of school. Somebody has to flip burgers at McDonalds. Let them do that while those that give a rip get a better education in their absence! If parents were faced with having to figure out "What do I do now that Beavis is home instead of at daycare...I mean school?" they might be a little more inclined to get their kids into the right frame of mind for school.

Answer 4

I think that classrooms are way too overcrowded.

Teachers don't get paid enough.
There's not enough money for new
books, computers, etc.

Put it this way, I went to an L.A. school.
45 kids in every one of my classes.
It was way too easy to ditch school.
When I had a problem, the teacher was
too busy telling kids to keep quiet instead
of helping me understand my work.

I was transferred to a "better" school eventually.

25 kids or less in every class.
When I had a problem, the teacher
gave me her undivided attention.
When I tried to ditch a class, the teacher called my house!

Schools should REQUIRE tutoring to
students that get bad grades, only
because the parents don't know the
new studies that kids are learning now.

I think teachers should be paid as well as doctors and lawyers.
They wouldn't be doctors and lawyers without the teachers they had!

Answer 5

Difficult question. No simplistic answer. Allow me to meditate on it. Although, I must forewarn my response will probably be more linked to the ideal. Reality creates its own paradoxes. Saying you'd do one thing does not necessairly mean it would come to pass due to the stringent nature of the law. Still there are possibilities... I'll edit my comments as I have more time to ruminate upon this idea.

Answer 6

Let us begin with teaching our children to spell and speak correctly. I am not going to make a point of your mis-spelling(though maybe I just did..sorry). Education begins and ends at home with the great help of the educators. Without encouragement from parents and friends, school can seem useless and a "waste of time". Trust me, I was one of them.

So in short, educate the parents and their encouragement should help the child to focus more in class. Otherwise, the lessons will fall on deaf ears.

Answer 7

enforce the law about children and their rights

Make more parents accountable for the absenteeism of their children from school.

Provide an adequate safe school program to lesson the chance of children getting hurt at school.

improve infrastructures and nutritional practices

Have grooming programs to help students adjust to their gender roles.

Include religious programs ;specifically those that teaches respect for others.

have appreciation activities for teachers

Have continuous home visit programs to monitor the children and their overall health development.

Stress grammar programs

continuous upgrading of teachers with cost sharing and loan opportunities.

These are just a few of my thoughts

Answer 8

Improved parenting would definitely help ALL educational systems.

Answer 9

God can confer with us in a extensive variety of concepts if we are in music with Him. There are biblical situations of God conversing via way of aims. easily bear in mind Joseph (he who had a coat of many colorings). truly countless factors of his existence in touch messages sent to him via way of God via way of his aims.

Answer 10

Are you really serious if you will ask about "ecuation?"