akuma587 said:
HappySqurriel said:
akuma587 said:
HappySqurriel said:
Suppose I decided to make pants for children from the age of 4 to 18 and I ensured that there would only be one size and shape of pants for an age group; and these pants were manufactured by people who would cut back on the quality of the pants in order to use the money saved to silkscreen political messages on the pants. How well would these pants fit the needs of most of these children?
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That's complete BS. They have a ton of remedial programs and gifted and talented programs as soon as you get into school all the way up until students graduate.
You are also completely ignoring the fact that they have a lot of programs to help children BEFORE they even get into school which are FREE. The ECI Debt program and other sister programs help children from the ages of birth to three who are having trouble with their speech or that have any other learning disabilities. They even have FREE government programs for children who are much more severe learning disabilities, such as autisim, Asperger's, Down Syndrome, etc.
Now if you are talking about standardized testing, that is a more accurate statement. Byt what you said completely disregards the facts.
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Just because I exaggerated, does not mean that the problem does not exist.
The education system is built around the assumption that every student should (or should want to) go on to university and get a degree. They focus their resources towards preparing you for this eventual university education and completely ignore the fact that 2/3 of students will never get a university degree, and in the process around 1/3 of students become frustrated and leave school BECAUSE THEIR NEEDS ARE NOT BEING MET!
You can talk all you want about the school being a little flexible, and offering programs to help people meet their narrow definitions of success or failure, but it is still far from inclusive.
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Hmmm, oddly enough what you described seems to be fairly close to the statistical split at my high school between people who take AP classes (those who almost all plan to go to college) and those who don't take AP classes (only some of which plan to go to college). The amount you have to learn to pass in regular classes is beyond pathetic already. If anything the standards should be higher.
The only viable alternative is to add more elective classes for things like people who would want to go into business, but academic elective classes across the board are generally failures. The expectations are so low in those classes that it is almost sickening. This is assuming that the schools even have enough money as it is (which they don't, and which I strongly disagree with).
That isn't even factoring in the remedial programs and the extracurricular activities like UIL, Academic Decathlon, etc. for kids who want even more from their education.
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So, can you get a welding certificate from your school?
