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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: country bob who wrote (112037)	2/13/2006 7:57:41 PM
From: Naomi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

Yes I believe they have changed also. I am amazed and appalled at how many youngsters have been arrested for killing their parents and making out lists of ones they want to kill at school. That never happened when we were in school. Children then were taught to respect authority and if they didn't and got into trouble, they faced more serious consequences when they got home and their family dealt with them. Now you see parents going to schools and claiming their children's civil rights have been abused and rushing down to file a law suit against the schools and or teachers. I just don't see that as being useful at all and teaches kids to be more unruly than ever. I am definitely opinionated about this and nothing can raise my blood pressure more.....<ggg> I have three dear friends who were school teachers and some of the stories they have told about the last ten to fifteen years would raise every hair on your head and they have all retired to teach their own grandchildren their skills and values. They have said their skills were affected by changes in curriculum and not being allowed to teach the three R's....reading, writing and arithmetic as had been used for years before and had worked. They pull out their soap boxes and really let you know what is going on in our schools. Calculators being allowed to be used for math exercises and not letting the kids use their brains to calculate things on their own. I guess simple things now with all the technology we are afforded and everyone should know without relying on a calculator to get their answers. And not having tools to learn to spell. We had dictionaries on pedestals to go research words and many now don't even know how to use them, by using phonics to find the word or words they are looking for. We were taught to use phonics to spell and I still use that greatly and then check my dictionary to see if I am right and most times I am. I believe that was one of the greatest things I learned in school and it helped me immensely with learning to read and comprehend what I read. I will always love my teachers who took the time to develop those skills for me.. Teachers in my era were devoted to making sure we kids learned what we were supposed to learn and it really showed up in later years by the accomplishments of many at our schools. I feel I got a very good education in public schools and even down to racism and how we were taught to deal with it. It really worked in our school and no one was made to feel any less or more than any others did. We had a hispanic group of children also and they were separated in first grade until they learned to read, write and speak English and then entered our school population in second grade. None of this telling us they could go on through school not speaking the language of our land or we had to learn their language. We were able to learn it later as a foreign language. I don't remember knowing anyone that had a poor self image in our school population all the way through our school years. And we surely never saw Billboards in Spanish rather than English in our city or walked into stores that used Spanish in each department. Off my soapbox now and settling down.......<ggg> Sorry, I just can see so many things that have a need to be corrected in our school systems and any time I have a chance to meet educators I express it to them. One of these days, I hope them hearing it will bring it to their attention to make changes in the way our children are taught and it leads to better educations for all. One of my friend's Mother was on the School Board when we were in school and she devoted so much of her life to education. I think in the end it took her life and she was missed in our city's education world for the fights she put up for educating the children. Don't see that much any longer and they tend to just go with the flow and don't accomplish much of anything, other than hiring more guards to patrol the schools to handle the problem makers. In the meantime many of our students are falling through the cracks.