It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by paperplanes
I don't think that changing the course offerings should be the first priority. The trouble isn't so much with what students are studying, but rather how they are studying and who the teachers are. For instance, skimming through an AP literature text list would suggest that the course is relatively rigorous. However, if you speak directly with students and observe their studying habits as well as the classroom atmosphere, you'll find that the reality is hardly conducive to developing analytical and writing skills. When your primary concern as a student is to prepare for the big test at the end of the year, and all of the time in between can be spent browsing "cheat" sites like SparkNotes or plowing through Princeton Review books, you aren't developing anything more than test skills. That is not what I think students should be learning, but it is the reality for most American students.
[edit on 23/10/08 by paperplanes]
Originally posted by whaaa
Let the kids seek their own level of education at their own pace. For the malcontents, beat them senseless.
[edit on 23-10-2008 by whaaa]
Originally posted by SuperSecretSquirrel
I would disband that branch of government and turn power back to the states, cities and parents. All the Dept of Ed has done is inject mediocrity into our schools.
Originally posted by juveous
If you were head of the Department of Education, and were able to change the curriculum to Elementry, Middle school, or High schools - what whould you do? what kind of classes do you think our youth should be able to take?
I wouldn't have mind taking "introduction to consipiracies".
and if someone says MMORPGS...So help me..
Originally posted by juveous
Originally posted by whaaa
Let the kids seek their own level of education at their own pace. For the malcontents, beat them senseless.
[edit on 23-10-2008 by whaaa]
With the Internet, you really don't even need school, but everyone (kids)needs some influence or guidance, ya just can't say here's google learn something...
if your dumb, you should stay dumb...
Originally posted by Catesby
Originally posted by juveous
Originally posted by whaaa
Let the kids seek their own level of education at their own pace. For the malcontents, beat them senseless.
[edit on 23-10-2008 by whaaa]
With the Internet, you really don't even need school, but everyone (kids)needs some influence or guidance, ya just can't say here's google learn something...
if your dumb, you should stay dumb...
You sound quite young. Or naive? The Internet is here to maintain a 'Sibling Society'. There is precious little aspiration among us for our elders. This is catastrophic to the individual. Read Jung.