Posted by NCWayne on September 22, 2013 at 22:35:53 from (98.21.228.82):
Started reading some of the replies to the Homework thread further down. Unfortunately there were so many replies I didn't/don't have time to read all of them. In the ones that I did read there were alot of opinions. Funny thing is alot of the opinions put forth tell me that the person writing hasn't had a kid in school in ALOT of years.
While I agree that kids need to be in school, and need to learn, the problem nowdays is they try to force so much on them so early on that they have forgotten the basics. For instance my daughter is in the 5th grade. I look at tests and other things she beings home for us to see and she does great on them as far as the work goes. Thing is I also see things like her name written without starting it with a capitol letter. When I was in school the BASICS of reading and writing were stressed hard. We learned that before we learned anything else. If we didn't use a capitol on our name it was pointed out by the teacher because it's wrong and it's important to spell your name right if you do nothing else right.
Thing is they are so obsessed with teaching them computers, etc, etc, etc that they ignore the basics. I mean 'who cares if you spell your name right' if you know what the 10 vocabulary words mean, and can click/type, or whatever to acknowledge said meaning on the computer screen.......?
Now, here's a kicker for ya'll. I passed one of the local elementary schools the other day and they had a new subject proudly displayed on the sign. You'll never guess what the subject is......take a minute to think about it....have a guess yet???? I can already tell you 99.99999999999 (infinity) of ya'll are wrong. So, honestly, how many guessed that the sign proudly displayed that they are "Now teaching Mandrin Chineese"? Basically we have kids that are still in the process of learning English (although the even the in's and out's of learning that have been allowed to fall through the cracks), but now are being taught Mandrin Chineese......In High school we had a choice between French and Spanish for a foreign language requirement, but a second langnage was NEVER even an option in elementary school.
As far as the homework goes, the amount never seens to be the problem around here. The biggest problem with homework nowdays is that the way we learned to do things in school got thrown so far out the window it isn't funny. Personally I'd love to be able to help my daughter with some of her stuff, but when neither me, or the wife, has any idea how to do the problem the "NEW" way, especially the math, so there's no way we can help her. To be able to do anything would mean we all had to go back to elementary shcool to relearn how to do something that was taught basically the same way for ALOT of years and yielded ALOT of very smart, successful people. WHY MESS WITH AND CHANGE WHAT WORKS....??????
Funny thing I am the kind that I have spoken to the teachers about the crap they are spewing nowdays and many of them don't like it any better than we, the parents, do. The real problem is that it seems no one I speak too seems to have any desire to speak their mind and tell "those in charge" how completely STUPID their managment of our kids are. The times I have written the school board, talked to the teachers, etc, etc all I get is the answer/answers that, basically, "That's the way things are now....the 'governemt' tells us what to teach now....so,oh well...there's nothing anyone can do about it." I guess the sheer lack of desire for anyone to do anything makes me more upset than the fact it was let get to this point in the first place.
In the end I, for one, would love to be able to send my daughter to a private school as one of the replies to the previous post suggested unhappy parents do. Unfortunately not all of us can afford several thousand dollars a year to send our child to a school that's 40 miles away. Not to mention the other few thousand required to insure she gets there and home each day. To that end, how are we to afford the thousands to send her to private school when one, of the other of us would have to quit our job to insure she had a ride to school, a ride home, and someone to watch her when she wasn't in school? In the end it's easy to say "Don't send your child to public school if you don't like it" but when it comes down to the bones of the situation it's not as easy to actually do as it is to suggest to someone else........
Ultimately it's all left up to guys like me to fuss and raise enough he!! that someone takes notice....but again, those that take notice don't really care........so where does that leae us but with alot of OVER educated kids that know technology, but are so severaly UNDER educated when it comes to the basics that we have a society full of what my Great Grandma used to call, 'Educated idiots".......Seems like she knew what she was talking about even back then because it's the "Educated Idiots" that are running things now and doing their best to create more just like them.....................
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