I've had a year and half to think about this. I left my job as a teacher cause I was extremly dissatisfied with the job. I would like to say it was the administration, I would like to say it was the material. But I actually know that it is the fact that the system is so rigid in how kids learn. All kids learn differently, and a lot of them benefit mainly from having more of a mentoring system as opposed to just, this is what it is so be it. I also believe that starting from 7th grade or so, they should start getting an idea of what kids want to do for a living and take them on a week long adventure to that career to get them an idea of what that job entails.
The high school level should be more like college. Kids are allowed to pick what they want to do with their lives and the classes that would get them more to that track. The rigid system that we have now is completely useless and the crack are starting to show more and more everyday. So many kids slip through the system, and/or are not just college material. High School raises kids as if they are ALL going to work in the corporate system and that is wrong. Their are hundreds of career fields that are untapped in terms of what high school prepares them for it.
And I know some of my detractors are going to say "...well school budgets are high enough, what you are proposing will skyrocket it." If you overhaul the system, you can easily still have the same budgets and perhaps less, and maybe even some sponsorship some from career fields as a benefit which would offset the costs. And at the same time we would create some people that would actually benefit society instead of the moops that school systems punch out. I think the greatest obstacle to this change is teachers unions. As much as I am a union person I also realize that they have ALL gone corrupt. Maybe what we need is to really overhaul everything. Perhaps that is what Jefferson meant when he said "...there needs to be a revolution every 25 years or so." Perhaps I am too much of a visionary and this country has grown so bloated and corrupt to allow such changes. Perhaps that is why we WILL die as a society. It is good to have some plans ready though. And this is my rough sketch.
The high school level should be more like college. Kids are allowed to pick what they want to do with their lives and the classes that would get them more to that track. The rigid system that we have now is completely useless and the crack are starting to show more and more everyday. So many kids slip through the system, and/or are not just college material. High School raises kids as if they are ALL going to work in the corporate system and that is wrong. Their are hundreds of career fields that are untapped in terms of what high school prepares them for it.
And I know some of my detractors are going to say "...well school budgets are high enough, what you are proposing will skyrocket it." If you overhaul the system, you can easily still have the same budgets and perhaps less, and maybe even some sponsorship some from career fields as a benefit which would offset the costs. And at the same time we would create some people that would actually benefit society instead of the moops that school systems punch out. I think the greatest obstacle to this change is teachers unions. As much as I am a union person I also realize that they have ALL gone corrupt. Maybe what we need is to really overhaul everything. Perhaps that is what Jefferson meant when he said "...there needs to be a revolution every 25 years or so." Perhaps I am too much of a visionary and this country has grown so bloated and corrupt to allow such changes. Perhaps that is why we WILL die as a society. It is good to have some plans ready though. And this is my rough sketch.
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