Let's take a sobering approach towards education: is it really a matter of how big the school's budget is or maybe it is the importance of value your family focuses on education? Do parents hold no responsibility in their child's education? If the children refuse to learn and do their homework, what more can a teacher do? Someone needs to stand up and point the finger back at the parents now.
Take a look at the new budget for some districts:
Southern Tier school districts to get $2.3M
RCPS to get $2.3M from Race to the Top
Does this seem like a good way to solve this ongoing problem?
Tatiana,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you. I also don't think it is a financial issue, but I can see why people do think it is. The only thing that money can buy (as far as education) is better teachers, but it seems that we have already done some of that.
Just to answer some of your question with my opinions 1) I dont think that it matters how big your school is. There are many small schools out there that have higher graduation rates than bigger schools. I think it does matter how much importance your family places on education. I believe that throughout the early stages of school, or every grade before college, I think that parents should be involved in the life of their students. Thats one of the things that made me more focused in school becuase I knew if I got bad grades or misbehaved I would get in trouble.
2) If a student refuses to do their homework, then that's a tough situation for a teacher (especially teachers that are not college professors). I know there were many situations in my high school where students just simply regused to cooperate and do their homework. What can you do about that as a teacher? There is not much you can do. So, that is tough.
What do you think we should do to help or education system or to improve it?
-HR