On 10/04/2013 7:57 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
> "what is the interest of the pupil. If he or she want to learn"
>
> So, if we eliminate compulsory education, and let the slackers drop
> out, we will have a better school system?
Actually, yes. You will have students who are motivated, which makes the
job of teaching much easier, and will tend to attract people to the
profession who are passionate about teaching. Yo won't run into the
situation that is happening in Georgia (IIRC) where an entire school
board is under the microscope for marks cheating to enhance their
districts scores (and funding). Thirty five educators are in front of a
grand jury for this.
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/04/01/atlanta-cheating-scandal-puts-national-education-policy-on-trial/
The other side of the coin of course, is what do you do with the
slackers? They aren't going to be employable, and are, as a rule, going
to end up in criminal activity (much the same as they do now), and
eventually, being warehoused in jail.
As an aside, I know something of what I speak. My father spent the
majority of his teaching career at an inner city high school where drop
out rates generally exceeded 90%, and the kids were a product of multi
generational welfare, and parents whose live had pretty much been ruined
by our governments very misguided attempt to beat the Indian out of the
Indians with a Residential School program that saw hundreds of thousands
of children taken from their parents and dropped into church run schools
where their culture, language and, judging from the number of complaints
that surfaced regarding physical and sexual abuse, their innocence as well.
As a society, we'll be paying for this 150 year travesty for another
hundred years.
Essentially, we screwed these people up to the point they couldn't
function in either the Indian society or the White society, and then
kicked them to the curb to fend for themselves, and then got
sanctimonious because many (most) ended up as a waste of humanity.
bill
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