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Location: OH | Bear - 2016-10-19 9:38 PM Three 4 Luck - 2016-10-19 5:05 PM Bear - 2016-10-19 12:03 PM Barnmom - 2016-10-19 11:49 AM Three 4 Luck - 2016-10-19 10:27 AM IRunOnFaith - 2016-10-19 10:12 AM Bear with me:
A few problems I see with today's generation: The government controls what our schools teach. We have high school seniors who can recite Pathogoreans Theorem, but can't iron, balance a check book, or calculate interest on a loan. They don't realize that the $16,000 car they just financed with 20% interest will end up costing over $30,000 by the end of the loan. And they wonder why they can't trade it in when the 36,000 mile warranty goes out and their car dies. (Note to all buy a hyundai if you buy a new car. 10 yr 100k warranty LOL)
I see friends who are working moms, who have husbands that make at least $15-$17 an hour here in TX who have cried repeatedly while trying to hide their food card at the grocery store. It kills them to be on welfare. But they literally cannot afford food for their family. The father's checks can't pay the bills and the mother's entire paycheck pays for the kids to be in daycare while she works a mediocre job trying to help out. Why? Because no one ever taught them to budget, to plan ahead, to not buy the $60,000 vehicle on 20% interest. To save and buy the pick up for $3500 because it would work just fine. Sure, new vehicles have less maintenece... In the beginning. Once that warranty goes out tho, they have a truck payment and repair bills. No one every taught them to invest in their future with a saving's account. No one ever taught them to do any of that. So when the oilfield crashed, they crashed too.
The bigger picture here is people are uneducated. Our schools have failed our society. Our parents have failed their children. To me, it isn't solely the school's responsibility to teach your child. Sure, they may need to know algebra and spelling. That's basic. When was the last time you sat down with your children and taught them how their government worked? When's the last time you attended a town hall meeting as a family? When did you sit down as a family and explain that your child's vote as an adult in an election as little as a county election could influence and snowball effect something as large as a presidential nomination? Does your child know the branches of government? Can they explain in detail the job of each branch? Can they tell you term limits and view points of all the government officials we have appointed? All these people wanting to blame our schools and our government for the pickle we are in don't realize that it is their responsibility as a parent to teach their children about LIFE. Instead they blame others. If you see gaps in your children's education, fill them. Don't complain about them. Home is a school too. Children learn a lot more from you than you'd like to believe.
My parents were not perfect and I realize that most adults can't even do what is written above. Don't be lazy. Invest in your children. Invest in your family. Invest in your siblings, your parents, your friends. Teach the next generation! I love the part where you said if you see gaps in your child's education, fill them at home. That's one reason homeschooling is getting more popular. Parents got tired of sending them to school for 7 hours a day and then having to educate them at home too because they weren't getting what they needed. And that's not a slam on teachers, that's a slam on the system that politicians have created. Too much homework is not the problem. That's not new. As far back as I remember people have bellyached about too much homework. I submit that most kids manage to find time to spend time on TV, video games, and the internet. If you feel it is taking your kids away from necessary chores, figure out a way to solve the problem. I have three children and 4 grandchildren. My kids held jobs, played sports, had had responsibility at home. I was a very busy single parent with a very demanding career. They all complained about "too much homework" as well, but they reaped the rewards, not me. My grandkids have a lot of homework as well, and interestingly their parents never bemoan that fact. I have zero sympathy for the "too much homework" complaint. Judging from the fund of knowledge I've seen exhibited on our college campuses, I'd guess these kids could have used a little more homework.
I have two boys, 6th and 7th grade and yes they have a lot of homework most nights and they have a lot of chores AND they are involved in sports. It does not upset me in the least, it teaches them self discipline at an early age and time management if they expect to get their 1/2 hour on their games. | |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Chandler's Mom - 2016-10-19 11:18 PM TrackinBubba - 2016-10-19 7:12 AM streakysox - 2016-10-18 5:06 PM I taught in a Charter School. They get their funding like other public schools or at least in Texas, as they are a separate school district, each having their own superintendent and school. We got the kids that had been kicked out of the high school for discipline problems. Why is saying that neighborhood schools are low performing or that democrat have the blacks where they want them is racist? I teach in a high school that is equally divided Hispanic, Black, and white. My black teacher friends feel the same way that I do about the black kids having to attend low performing schools when most of them attended schools that were completely integrated. I think the point I was making was that the democrats have set them back to a place before they were integrated. This is fact not opinion. All schools in Texas are rated according to test scores, attendance, graduation rate and several other factors. My job is to get the graduation percentage up. I don't care if they kid is green, if they get in my room they work and they understand that. If the breakdown of the family and apathy are the ruination of education then all schools are doomed. I have many girls who are single parents, they they are happy that our school district who is has a program where they can finish. If I have a student who in not working, a quick call to a parent usually gets them in gear. So there went the apathy theory. I do think that today's education is failing some students because we are to make brain surgeons out of everyone. I will say this, our new superintendent is trying to incorporate some vocational classes for kids in the early grad program. At least they can take something that interests them they will be better prepared to support themselves. 
I don't give a tinker's **** about most of this thread but I am SO GLAD to hear that a school district somewhere is bringing back vocational classes. It is so hard to find somebody to hire with any kind of blue collar skills. You'd think in a medium-sized city surrounded by farm country we could find somebody who knows one end of a screwdriver from another.
Add on somebody with blue collar skills that can pass a drug test, has a decent driving record, can show up on time, and actually do their job? That's like hunting a unicorn. Oh here in the Delta it's even more rare than an unicorn.
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