| gergroy said:
here are some things the state has tried to do over the last couple of years here in utah. 1. Cut sex education for students comepletely from schools, Instead of teaching the students sex ed, they wanted to have night classes to teach parents sex ed. (If they didnt know sex ed how did they become parents?). Thankfully that one got vetoed by the governor. 2. They wanted to comepletely cut out the 12th grade to save money. The reason? Because some students dont take their 12th grade year seriously. 3. The schools had been fighting for money for new textbooks for years, but the legislature waited until the schools had to cut funding to some programsto buy textbboks before they ok'd the money. However, it was stipulated to only be used on textbooks, and since the schools had just bought textbooks, it all got sent back. A dirty political move that let appear to pay for new textbooks, but in reality they didnt. Our state government does crap like that all the time. Just stupid stuff. Federal involvement is very minimal. They just have some minor guidelines for curriculum and special education so kids can kind of learn the same things all over the country. If the federal government didnt have them, the states would have them anyway, so i dont see any reason to send the money back to the states. If anything, the federal government is more hands off with it than the state government would be. |
That's ridiculous. Student's not taking the 12th grade seriously? If true, what do they think would happen if they cut it? Student's just wouldn't take 11th grade seriously. Truthfully, the issue is that, come 12th grade, students have more important things on their mind, like applying for college and looking for a job. The same thing is true come senior year in college, except replace college with grad school. As far as textbooks, I kind of always wonder how public schools get by....especially when trying to keep up with new editions....although in some disciplines, there isn't really a need for new editions.
