This is another report for the "true believers"
These are people who believe that every new theory, every new technique is the next thing that will save our children.
But if you ask anyone who has been teaching more than ten years, each new theory comes and goes, the good teachers just know how to teach and don't need to run around chasing the next failed fad in education.
The reason for all the fads is that no one wants to admit why there are large groups of kids who do not meet standards. The true believers can't accept that the community and family the kids come from are the main problem. These people believe that the school can fix everything...they can reverse all the negative lessons taught at home...or the lack of any lessons.
These true believers will say that the message I am presenting is just giving up...and that is wrong....because the focus needs to change.
Are any of these new and wonderful theories working....nope.
Do small schools work...nope.
So why don't we go after the actual problem.
Because that is hard. Making teachers change their teaching styles is much easier.
So go ahead MPS, do what is the next big thing...I'll sit by and wait for the next one, and the next one, and the next one...(that don't work)
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Report sparking MPS to act
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Scorpion says---
MPS?? CHANGES??? This has become a
daily/weekly/monthly routine.How many more reports to follow? LOTS!!
Still won't discuss the real issue-
You have to be IN SCHOOL to learn,
that it is STILL PARENTAL responsibility to get their children to school every day,and it
WON,T HAPPEN unless parents are given a REAL penalty if they don't
get their kids to school like they
should.
Well said, scorp.
wait a minute rhyno...I say that all the time
Good piece Game!
You have to ask yourself one thing. If the reason kids are failing in school is so obvious to most, why isn’t something done about it? You suggest the reason is “because that is hard”. I suggest there may be a much more insidious reason.
please share
I totally agree that this is basically a parental responsibility. I would like to ask the teachers here another question though.
I read something that said somewhere they are going back to a K-8 and high school system effectively eliminating the middle schools. They said they did this because the middle school time is the period where the most trouble occurs and keeping them in the above system they postulated would help solve some of those problems.
I know this isn't a complete answer but do you think it would be an improvement?
Scorpion says---
The middle school(junior high) idea and concept was the toughest to work in as the immaturity of this age group leads to constant attempts to show someone up,or try
to put someone down. You see constant insults and put-downs in an attempt to be funny or be in control.The K-8 concept at least allows the upper grades to be touted as role models for the little kids. This is definitely a
plus for a middle schoolers confidence level,and appears to work much better.
like anything else, it depends what kind of kids you have...in MOST school districts, the middle school is the one that teachers want to be in the least...
I taught at a middle school in Hawaii and it was awesome...my favorite assignment.
This is being done in MPS and other urban districts as another decoy to not address the real problem. That kids don't want to learn because no one at home is telling them how important it is...
There are pros and cons to both.
K through 8 does have a role model component built in....and that can be good and bad. I taught in a K-8 school in MPS, and I guess it didn't work there. I almost quit three weeks into it, and I promised myself I would leave that school or quit teaching for good.
So I guess I'll revert back to my original answer, depends what kind of kids you are dealing with. Good kids will do well in both, bad kids will do poorly in both...
A problem with K8 is that it does not get kids ready for HS and it can not offer the programs the middle school does....
Middle schools have better sports, better art, drama, debate, ect...
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