Should schools be responsible for their students’ education?
Is America lacking enough personal responsibility that the schools should be fully responsible for the results of the education of its students? Whether it is or not, the school’s involvement in its students’ education is at a peak from what I have observed.
The following is a short list of what I have observed in one school in particular (Carroll High School):
- Study hall monitoring, no sleeping, no headphones/eletronics, must stay active.
- No more than one study hall during a semester.
- Detentions for not completing homework.
- Required classes (Literature, Social Sciences, General Math, etc.).
- School standards in general.
- Everybody Reads (ER), where everyone must be reading something
- Truancy and its punishments (unauthorized absenses).
I go to school because I want an education, not because I want uneducated and unrespected authorities to tell me what I should learn, what kind of grade I should get, what kind of person I should be, and what sort of activities I should do.
Our freedom has been limited so that we cannot be trusted to make the correct decisions. Our rights have been limited so that a criminal has more than we do. Our education is being transformed into a uniform bell-curve where the stardards are so low that 99% of our students can pass it.
Our schools are being transformed into a fascist state, and the people who care about it the most forget about it once they graduate. The students need a speaker, a representive, to let them have a voice. Give them one.
Comments (4 comments)
I totally agree with that.
I what I’m about to say is totally something Mr. Vince would agree with: it’s called educational accountability. Not that parents nor teachers should be responsible for the student but the student themselves should be trusted enough to make educated decisions for themselves. Especially in high school.
If you screw up too bad. Go work at the McDonalds on Dupont. haha.
I can see maybe some direction given the students younger in years but in High School students should be given the freedom and trust (unless otherwise proven it can’t be given) to make educated decisions for themselves.
And here is a proposal for ye: what do you think about students in high school being able to take classes solely that they are going to need for the future, ie the job they want to get into. So like if I just wanted to major in physics with Knorr Force then I would only be taking classes that pertained to physics. Or if I wanted to major in theology how about bible classes.
You get the point. What do you think?
Noga
Noga / January 24th, 2008, 11:36:22 pm / #
That’s kinda tough. Some people believe that it “makes you a more rounded person” if you take a variety of class, such as literature, and try different things… But that may only apply to the lower grades.
High school is a large part of the developmental stage of your life, and you usually decide what you’re going to do for the future (or have an idea) when you leave.
Taking all physics related courses would be most benefitical to you, but then the question would come, “at what age does the responsibility transfer over to the student?”
We could keep moving the age to an eariler and eariler one, becoming even more productive and efficient with our lives.
Good idea Lamp. Sounds great. Honestly, I thought I’d find something to counter it as I was typing it, but I didn’t. It’s late. I might have missed something…
Lamp / January 24th, 2008, 11:53:44 pm / #
I really don’t think its the teachers jobs they do good most of the time. I think its more of the parents job to find out what their kids are doing and help them or just themselves. It doesn’t matter how hard the teacher tries if the kid is just a wall.
Derek / March 5th, 2008, 11:42:44 am / #
educational accountability man, educational accountability.
Noga / March 5th, 2008, 2:11:43 pm / #
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