The Dallas Morning News has a new feature where they send out a "Question of the Week" and ask for email feedback .... Two or three sentences at most is what they want ... here is this week's question .... see if you can answer it in 2 or 3 sentences!!
Do public schools in your community give students what they need to be successful? Is public education headed in the right direction?
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No, but public schools should provide a foundation to build upon. Success is determined by how ones uses that foundation to realize their own success. Lastly, public education does need a face lift and some good non-partisan input to refocus on educating our children instead of being day care facilities.
Here is how I responded ...
Yes Lewisville Public schools offer everything that a student needs to be successful in life. It is up to the students (and their parents) to take full advantage of what is offered.
No! Standardized testing is focusing way too much money and effort on the lowest, slowest and weakest (and in a very negative way) and in the long run public education is suffering overall because of that.
I agree with patr - get back to teaching readin', writin', & rithmetic. Or something like that.
Schools - especially High Schools - seem to have become warehouses for kids with parents abdicating responsibility for everything. No Child Left Behind is great in concept (educate all the kids), but completely un workable in practice (ALL kids must be at grade level with a few years - even the drooling idiots who cannot learn but have to be included.
Anyone ever hear of vocational education?
ABSOLUTLY NO IDEA.. WHERE IS THE
SCHOOL HOUSE??????
GUMDROP AGAIN: BACK TO SCHOOL WITH
A COUPLE OF YOU!!!!! 2 PARAGRAPHS
AND TWO SENTENCES.
I think that public schools have lost sight of their purpose: to educate the general population to a standard of literacy and numeracy. Not everyone is college material. I think they do educate for the vast majority. I think there are pockets of excellence, just as there are pockets of loss. I think with any large population there is a variety of needs, and public schools are just now starting to address those needs.
In my community the answer would be simple: "NO!"
But that's just my community....
The public school curriculum and for that matter even most of the college curriculum in this nation exists to produce workers for the job market, not free thinking citizens and entrepenueurs as was the case when this country was founded. Want evidence of this? White collar jobs of today are the blue collar jobs of yesterday.
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