I can see the benefit of introducing kids to the medical field and that sort of thing... the important word there being 'introducing.' I think in high school students should be encouraged to explore as many fields of study as possible. I am weary of making students declare majors and minors at such a young age. Being just out of college, I saw student after student switching their majors, sometimes multiple times. They ended up losing a lot of credit hours, because as a freshman they declared whatever major and realized "I dont really want to do this for the rest of my life." If more students got their core classes out of the way, took some intro classes in different fields, they wouldn't have wasted time and money. I had students come to me the end of this year and tell me that they weren't going to take drama next year because they wanted to take computer, or creative writing, or whatever. They expected me to be upset- but I always encouraged them to take the other class- find what they love- and hate. Now I always told them they still had to audition for the play :), but thats unrelated :). In my opinion, high schools should offer as many opportunites as possible for a wholistic education. If students begin to realize what it is they see themselves doing - counselors should introduce them to what colleges have strong programs, of course. But, I think too many counselors try to get their seniors to declare majors too early. I am glad to see that students are required to take 4 years of math with this bill. That is fantastic. But career counseling in middle school? And enrolling a student in "auto repair" study? What message is that sending? " You aren't cut out for college." PS-I am not knocking auto mechanics. And you are right kray, i'm sure there are pros- so if anyone wants to comment, please do.
Communists do this, too. That's not hyperbole. It's part of the doctrine of Socialism/Communism. Cuba's education system is set up similarly, only the choice isn't the student's, it's the government's. Communist Russia had a similar system as well. Their's was a bit more strict.
Idiocy. What percentage of high school students really know what they want to do. I didn't figure it out until I was a junior in college, and I was one of the few focused kids in my high school class. Absurdity, a study in the new science of morontology. I honestly believe that kids need to be starting to have more responsibility at an earlier age, but just forcing it on them without even trying to move them in slowly is asinine. That's like trying to teach a 5 year old to swim in the Atlantic Ocean in January off of Cape Cod. Doesn't the Bush family have someone that attempts to catch hebetudinous behavior and nip it in the bud? Honestly, words like "dolt" don't begin to do justice.
Okay, so this is a case of what, the grass is greener or maybe if it’s broke let’s break it some more. I live in the Czech Republic. Here they are trying to make some modifications to this system...why? Because a young person is trapped into a course of study from the time they are about 12 - 15. The students, parents and even some of the teachers, think that maybe some flexibility would be good. They look to the system in US and say that looks a little better. I have spoken to so many young people who hate their 'career choices'. But by the time they realized how much they hate the program, they have invested two years of study. Since they focused on one area, they have to start over again. Two years down the drain. The other issue here is that teachers would have to be retrained. How many H.S. teachers have enough of a background in ‘nursing’ or ‘computer science’ to teach a concentrated course on them? Current teachers would have to go back to University. Here the teachers came out of the system, they were trained at a concentrated level in their areas. Some of them, hate what they are teaching, but do it because, that is what they were ‘forced’ through the inflexibility of the system. What is needed is for the schools to return to the basics. Stop coddling students ‘egos’ at the expense of their future. Yes, Jimmy is a good boy, who has issues at home or is from a minority group. But passing him because you want to keep his self-esteem in tack is ‘retarded’. Oh and then giving him some standardized test and wondering why he did not pass and declaring the system broken is Asinine.
4 Comments:
I can see the benefit of introducing kids to the medical field and that sort of thing... the important word there being 'introducing.' I think in high school students should be encouraged to explore as many fields of study as possible. I am weary of making students declare majors and minors at such a young age.
Being just out of college, I saw student after student switching their majors, sometimes multiple times. They ended up losing a lot of credit hours, because as a freshman they declared whatever major and realized "I dont really want to do this for the rest of my life." If more students got their core classes out of the way, took some intro classes in different fields, they wouldn't have wasted time and money.
I had students come to me the end of this year and tell me that they weren't going to take drama next year because they wanted to take computer, or creative writing, or whatever. They expected me to be upset- but I always encouraged them to take the other class- find what they love- and hate. Now I always told them they still had to audition for the play :), but thats unrelated :).
In my opinion, high schools should offer as many opportunites as possible for a wholistic education. If students begin to realize what it is they see themselves doing - counselors should introduce them to what colleges have strong programs, of course. But, I think too many counselors try to get their seniors to declare majors too early.
I am glad to see that students are required to take 4 years of math with this bill. That is fantastic.
But career counseling in middle school? And enrolling a student in "auto repair" study? What message is that sending? " You aren't cut out for college." PS-I am not knocking auto mechanics.
And you are right kray, i'm sure there are pros- so if anyone wants to comment, please do.
Communists do this, too. That's not hyperbole. It's part of the doctrine of Socialism/Communism. Cuba's education system is set up similarly, only the choice isn't the student's, it's the government's. Communist Russia had a similar system as well. Their's was a bit more strict.
Idiocy. What percentage of high school students really know what they want to do. I didn't figure it out until I was a junior in college, and I was one of the few focused kids in my high school class. Absurdity, a study in the new science of morontology. I honestly believe that kids need to be starting to have more responsibility at an earlier age, but just forcing it on them without even trying to move them in slowly is asinine. That's like trying to teach a 5 year old to swim in the Atlantic Ocean in January off of Cape Cod. Doesn't the Bush family have someone that attempts to catch hebetudinous behavior and nip it in the bud? Honestly, words like "dolt" don't begin to do justice.
Okay, so this is a case of what, the grass is greener or maybe if it’s broke let’s break it some more. I live in the Czech Republic. Here they are trying to make some modifications to this system...why? Because a young person is trapped into a course of study from the time they are about 12 - 15. The students, parents and even some of the teachers, think that maybe some flexibility would be good. They look to the system in US and say that looks a little better. I have spoken to so many young people who hate their 'career choices'. But by the time they realized how much they hate the program, they have invested two years of study. Since they focused on one area, they have to start over again. Two years down the drain.
The other issue here is that teachers would have to be retrained. How many H.S. teachers have enough of a background in ‘nursing’ or ‘computer science’ to teach a concentrated course on them? Current teachers would have to go back to University. Here the teachers came out of the system, they were trained at a concentrated level in their areas. Some of them, hate what they are teaching, but do it because, that is what they were ‘forced’ through the inflexibility of the system.
What is needed is for the schools to return to the basics. Stop coddling students ‘egos’ at the expense of their future. Yes, Jimmy is a good boy, who has issues at home or is from a minority group. But passing him because you want to keep his self-esteem in tack is ‘retarded’. Oh and then giving him some standardized test and wondering why he did not pass and declaring the system broken is Asinine.
Post a Comment
<< Home