01-07-2012, 11:48 PM
Schools teach whoever shows up, clad. That is the problem. If the community sends decent kids to school, they get a decent education. The latter is also true. Back in my time, kids had to behave. After so many times in trouble, they were sent to an alternative school. They don't do that now unless kids get caught dealing drugs. Other than that, everything is allowed. You would be shocked if you knew what goes on and what teachers have to deal with every single day. Freedom Writers was a good movie, but it was just a movie. Same with Stand And Deliver. If there is no discipline, there is no educating kids who don't know how to behave.
Even if you do get kids to sit down, you CANNOT close gaps in learning past late elementary school (5th grade). The kids who are behind stay behind. If you want to find the problem, you can't look at high schools. You need to look at elementary schools who send kids on that can't read or write or add or subtract or multiply or divide. Those are the big skills. Without those, everything else is in vain.
Even if you do get kids to sit down, you CANNOT close gaps in learning past late elementary school (5th grade). The kids who are behind stay behind. If you want to find the problem, you can't look at high schools. You need to look at elementary schools who send kids on that can't read or write or add or subtract or multiply or divide. Those are the big skills. Without those, everything else is in vain.