"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."
Unfortunately, that is the philosophy of the current system: make the job of teachers easier, and eliminate any method of measuring performance. I am not convinced that is the was to attract people who are passionate about teaching; it is more likely to attract those looking for any easy and secure position. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
