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Originally posted by Lebenz
It’s not “the government” it’s the parents of the students and the students themselves. All any teacher can do is lead the student to the waters of knowledge. Learning takes more effort than merely drinking...................................................................
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Excellent point...but instead of asking parents to "be parents" and play a part in their child's education and discipline, public school administrators are suggesting, or in some cases MANDATING, that they drug their kids with Ritalin! When I was in school, there was none of this "Attention Defecit Disorder" bull$h!t....The cure for "ADD" in my school was a loud, sharp "Sit down, shut up, and pay attention!!" from the teacher! Worked almost every time, too!...."If it ain't broke......"
Instead of challenging the advanced students, they sedate them so that they can "dumb it down" to the lowest common denominator and avoid hurting the lazy students' feelings! Now they're doing away with Honor Rolls and Dean's Lists! Are they going to erase any TRACE of reward for hard-working and hard-studying students? They're too busy enforcing their absurd "zero tolerance" rules to get any teaching done! Sending kids home for bringing asprin or a pair of nail clippers to school, that's brilliant policy!
I just posted on another education-related thread that the single most important variable in your education is YOU. Parents and teachers obviously play a huge role, and both are failing in that regard in more and more cases lately.
Parents and teachers don't stress the importance of education and responsibility and self-reliance, and then they wonder why the kids behave the way they do.
Sorry, but I'll stick with my daughter's private school, where she is taught subjects that are relevant, she is taught these subjects well, she is expected to pay attention and perform (without Ritalin!), and is rewarded when she does so, and penalized when she does not. She can also bring a damn Tylenol to school when she has a headache, and they don't call the cops! Imagine that!
So far, she's an "A" student, a couple of "Bs", does basketball, football, music, soccer, with no discipline problems, no drug problems, no alcohol problems, hasn't been shot at, hasn't been "zero-toleranced", hasn't needed Ritalin (
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Mike