More dropout students every year produced by public education schools. Actual performance of public schools fails even the graduating students. Contrast our schools with other schools who spend far less and have their students deliver more. Public education is not a self-regulating organization because it has no measurements of performance. Good teachers can’t be rewarded and poor teachers can’t be fired.
The state and the NEA both believe they know what to do for our students but it is not the following:
- Student performance standards
- College track
- Craftsman or business trade
- Adult Basic Education
- Internet & computers
- Alternative learning skills
The state people doesn’t want to be held responsible for public education just a well paid position. NEA staff appear to have the revolutionary fervor of a zealot to keep everyone but them out of education. Especially the control of education.
So why hasn’t the problem been solved? I’m taking a chance telling you this!
- The solution must be creative.
- It must be usable by existing teachers.
- It must be affordable.
- It must work and not be a fad for today gone tomorrow.
- Students, teachers and parents buy in.
Public Education that worked would benefit students and teachers not the NEA or the school administration staff. These two only chase problems not get ahead or cure them. No child left behind means dropout creation. A mind is a terrible thing to waste means that some minds are better than other minds to waste. Public education has a jargon a vocabulary of codewords to depict and describe the real environment by smooth soothing words that are nice to the ears and mean nothing to the mind.
What is diversity? The single culture that accepts inferior cultures. Boys compete and girls collaborate. Education is a gender based organization of females on a mission in America. Males need not apply if equal treatment and acceptance is expected! Females need special treatment because they are better than males.
Students need to be able to contribute and live in an American society. That means the student who wants a college education must show performance in subjects that prepare for college. A student who doesn’t really want to fit in to the college life should be in a trade, business, or a craftsman role with the education that allows a job and a life! Some students fit in neither category and must be given an adult basic education. An education that allows them the means to survive and even to grow. These three educational tracks need to planned and rolled out.
We as parents, employers, and students know that the current public educational model has failed Americans. Students are being killed in our public school systems! If schools couldn’t teach dropouts why are we surprised to find out that the street has some employment opportunities they can use. Why can’t the NEA, governments, teachers describe a functioning public educational system that:
- Teaches the student.
- Prepares the student for employment.
- Prepares the student for professional careers
- Prepares the student for a craft or trade job.
- Has the student learn to read and write to a specified level.
- Allows student to gain insight as to how America is really run.
- There is nothing wrong with being Black, Hispanic, Italian, Asian, or etc,.
What is needed and needed now is change! We can’t keep making the same decisions and expecting a different outcome. You don’t mix peas and Lima beans in a bowl and expect cherry ice cream! Don’t tell me that Johnny can’t multiply 13 times 28 in his head and get the correct answer by grade 11. I don’t believe Johnny can fool 10 or more teachers about his multiplication skills. Or is it that Johnny is not really tested for anything other than not talking back to the teacher.
We may have people in a job where the outcome of their efforts is not important to them!
Now three people need to work together:
- Students
- Parents
- Teachers
Do we know how many people other than teachers and students we need in a school to handle non-teacher duties? God help us if we don’t. I would like to know on a yearly basis what worked and what did nothing or failed.
The GED is a band-aid for a problem society created and ignored. The yearly graduates of our public school systems are a mere drop in the adult population. If we want more from the labor force we better know how to train them because high school graduates will not give us the numbers of people we need.
Ronald E. Newton retired IBM Networking Consultant Article Source:http://www.articlesbase.com/k-12-education-articles/ged-not-the-problem-1077845.html
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