View Single Post
Old 10-08-2007, 06:02 PM   #41 (permalink)
emptypepsi
DoubleplusgoodMod
 
emptypepsi's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Planet Vulcan
Posts: 2,847
Country:
Country:
Send a message via AIM to emptypepsi
Well, there seems to be a general consensus here that public schools are doing a piss poor job, in either teaching to pass state tests and thus perpetuating mediocrity, or by failing to help encourage kids in other ways.

This presents us with quite a dilemma. Not everyone can afford private schools and not everyone has the time for home schooling. Thus public schools are in quite a cunundrum. If we pay teachers more, it won't change kids not caring. If we make things easier on kids by lowering passing grades and giving more curves, we are in a sense failing the kids. Therefore it seems the ultimate responsibility here is going to fall in the homes where the kids are being raised. The question now is - how is this tackled?
__________________
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
Isaac Asimov

http://www.politicsforumpoliticalwor...ion-forum-rule
emptypepsi is offline   Reply With Quote