Quote Originally Posted by painretreat
emilya: I cannot blame the institution of education. It has changed in the past 150 years. I know a few women (my friends parents) that are in late 80' and one just turned 93! I am impressed with the knowledge they have. I told the 89 yr. old a few months ago, how much I admired her knowledge of just about anything! She retorted, "It isn't me, it is due to the fact, we had better teachers then!" She is right.

And "No Child Left Behind" and passe some idiots that may be in the 'Freshman' class, you are speaking of!

72' HDTV, did you catch the Baseball game tonight? Was pretty good.

My answer to "Be home at nine!" DVR and watch the programs when I can push it into my schedule!

I do understand what you are saying though! Our schools are over-crowded and parents are both working, some, even 2 jobs and it is tuff! pr
Hi PainRetreat!

You are of course right... schools have changed in the last century. Teachers are no longer allowed to discipline in their classrooms and the pledge is not being done anymore. An exceptional child now must be slowed down in order to allow the slower children to keep up and teachers are forced to spend their time making certain that their classrooms can pass the Department of Education sponsored tests instead of teaching what may be interesting to their kids.
I am convinced that we could get a better education for our young people by using our current technology. Teachers must be allowed to innovate. In the college world, a person will choose to study under a certain professor because that person has been identified as "the best" teacher of that subject. Why could this concept not be moved to our high schools using the internet? Can you imagine what would have happened if we had for instance, Larry Sabado or Bill Clinton teaching civics... Ben Stein teaching anything... Bill Nye teaching physics... The kids would love it, costs could come down in local schools and because the marketplace would choose who these very best of the teachers were, the quality of education would increase nationwide. We desperately need to get the government out of our schools, but without finding a way to cut local costs, this will never happen. The entire system needs to be restructured and my proof that we need this is the constant decline in graduation rates.