Scumbria Re..In the US, we treat teachers as babysitters.<<
Sumbria, I am sorry in that in the last post I probably have misinterpreted this statement. I put it in the context that we pay our teachers like we do our baby sitters. Upon further consideration, you could very well have hit the nail on the head, in that we treat our schools as baby sitters, rather than institutions of learning. We send problem kids there to get them off the streets,bus kids all around town to equalize spending on schools when we could just send the money, send handicap children there so they can feel normal, rather than sending them to special schools better equiped to deal with the handicaps. Before I get a bunch of hate mail, let me explain that sometimes the handicap's wish, to be treated as normal, isn't the best for either the handicapped or the rest of the students. If the handicapped can't keep up, instead of slowing down every one else, the handicapped should be in a special class which treats his needs. We need to eliminate all of the reasons our kids don't want to go to school; and I am not talking about homework. Properly motivated, the kids should welcome going to class, doing homework, and learning. And if our own children don't have the motivation, we need to quit blaming the teachers and talk to our children ourselves, and find out why. |
