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originally posted by: Brotherman
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: Brotherman
By finish line do you mean enter the workforce or graduate?
That's up to the individual.
I think that the competition in education should reflect the competition in the work force scenario.
Then a GPA is irrelevant. The GPA only matters when going on to pursue higher education. Otherwise, on-the-job training is more important and someone's GPA will not correlate to a better ability to train on the job.
Sounds to me like you are making the case to do away with the competition and focus on actual education/training.
Ok fine, how is this then, why does the school offer coarse's they believe does not benefit a students future in the first place?
originally posted by: DBCowboy
All I have to say is I'm glad my wife and I home-school our son.
All these "followers" will need a leader.
originally posted by: introvert
originally posted by: DBCowboy
All I have to say is I'm glad my wife and I home-school our son.
All these "followers" will need a leader.
In my experience, home schooled kids lack in two major areas:
Basic scientific principles and personal skills.
They are sheltered and have not learned how to deal with the world outside their little boxes that have been created for them.
originally posted by: introvert
originally posted by: Brotherman
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: Brotherman
By finish line do you mean enter the workforce or graduate?
That's up to the individual.
I think that the competition in education should reflect the competition in the work force scenario.
Then a GPA is irrelevant. The GPA only matters when going on to pursue higher education. Otherwise, on-the-job training is more important and someone's GPA will not correlate to a better ability to train on the job.
Sounds to me like you are making the case to do away with the competition and focus on actual education/training.
Ok fine, how is this then, why does the school offer coarse's they believe does not benefit a students future in the first place?
They should offer courses and let the students/parents choose the best ones that fit their goal, as many do now. If they want to win 1st place in the popularity contest, take the floater classes.
Otherwise, they should choose to take courses that fit their future education/training/development.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: introvert
originally posted by: DBCowboy
All I have to say is I'm glad my wife and I home-school our son.
All these "followers" will need a leader.
In my experience, home schooled kids lack in two major areas:
Basic scientific principles and personal skills.
They are sheltered and have not learned how to deal with the world outside their little boxes that have been created for them.
Then you need to get out more.
hahaha
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: introvert
Your concern is touching.
But I will not justify nor list the curriculum to a stranger on the internet who has an immediate bias against myself, my family.
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: xuenchen
Competition was getting unhealthy, the chair of the school board explained, and students were setting a goal of getting the highest GPA instead of taking classes that might help them in the future. Thus, the board reasoned, it was better to bolster the Latin honor system and do away with the first and second place honors.
Sounds good to me. They are still getting recognition for their accomplishments, but not focusing on the 1st/2nd garbage.
Education is not like a Nascar race.
originally posted by: Brotherman
a reply to: DBCowboy
Well your child better have art class or else the badger is coming over
You came in third didn't you?
Honestly, who really worried about that in high school? I never stressed over it. I did the best I could, and I always figured if that happened, it happened. I'd let it take care of itself. What kind of loser worried obsessively over trying to be the very best academic out of 100+ of his peers over the course of years?
There is healthy success and there is setting yourself up for failure success. No one I know, not even the ones who were in the running for it, spent too much time worrying about it.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
originally posted by: Brotherman
a reply to: DBCowboy
Well your child better have art class or else the badger is coming over
He's a better artist than I am.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Brotherman
I can tell you the difference.
There were at least three kids in the top 20 in my senior class who were not like the rest of us. Most of us took advanced track, college placement type courses - Chem I and II, Physics, Calculus, Bio I and II, College Bound English, etc. Those were not easy courses and you earned your grades in those classes. These three girls were taking things like Home Ec and other soft options.
While I was in Chem II lab and struggling to separate out about 16 different ions from solution, they were playing mother to eggs for a week.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Brotherman
I can tell you the difference.
There were at least three kids in the top 20 in my senior class who were not like the rest of us. Most of us took advanced track, college placement type courses - Chem I and II, Physics, Calculus, Bio I and II, College Bound English, etc. Those were not easy courses and you earned your grades in those classes. These three girls were taking things like Home Ec and other soft options.
While I was in Chem II lab and struggling to separate out about 16 different ions from solution, they were playing mother to eggs for a week.