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Unfortunate they have to use this story as a way to insult teachers. Find the best teacher at Stuyvesant or TJ and tell me they’re going to make these kids shine.
We as a society have started to believe our own euphemism: “bad school” when we really mean to say “collection of underperforming students”.
The whole reason we call them illegal aliens is because they’re subject to our laws.
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Let's make some hard choices and fix it.
What you are dealing with, is a multi-generational set of losers. The parents could care less if their children succeed or do better than they are doing. They have accepted life as it is, no matter that their life could be much better and their children fall into the same pit.
Want to change this for the better? At the beginning of first grade, take every child away from their parent(s) and place them in a boarding school, with excellent teachers and rigid discipline. It should be in a rural setting, where students are responsible for much of the grounds maintenance and a lot of the food production. The school should contain three academic pathways, to be determined by the end of 8th grade. An academic, college prepatory track, a business track and a vocational track.
The college track should be selective, based on grades, test scores and interviews. The college track should feature a senior year with college courses and the student should graduate with 24 hours of college credit. That credit should be transferable to any state funded university in the state.
The vocational and business track students should take aptitude tests, much as those given in the military. Students should be taught auto mechanics, nurses aid (CRNA), vocational nursing, construction trades ( carpentry, plumbing, roofing, flooring & tile, drywall, bricklayers, etc), welding, HVAC, grounds maintenance, horticulture, etc. They should also take a class or two in basic business concepts and entrepreneurship.
Business students should learn basic business skills, including familiarity and mastery of most of the computer programs encountered in the everyday business world. That includes business communications, word processing, spreadsheets, Power Point and scheduling software. They should be ready for entry level positions in clerical, healthcare informatics, sales and retail. They should also have entrepreneurial classes in common with the votech pathway.
All pathways will have proficiency in life skills. Basic cooking and nutrition. Basic financial and budgeting knowledge. Basic relationship and parenting skills. An opportunity to participate in rudimentary athletics and team sports, including some that can be lifelong pursuits (tennis, bowling, golf, etc.). An opportunity in basic music education, either instrument or voice. And an opportunity to attend religious services of their choosing (or not).
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Unfortunate they have to use this story as a way to insult teachers. Find the best teacher at Stuyvesant or TJ and tell me they’re going to make these kids shine.
We as a society have started to believe our own euphemism: “bad school” when we really mean to say “collection of underperforming students”.
Unfortunate they have to use this story as a way to insult teachers. Find the best teacher at Stuyvesant or TJ and tell me they’re going to make these kids shine.
We as a society have started to believe our own euphemism: “bad school” when we really mean to say “collection of underperforming students”.
The whole education narrative is equally flawed. But it’s essentially a religious fact that throwing formal educational resources at people will make them better.
