Lets Really Reform Our School
Desperate illnesse requires desprate remedies. And our public schools are desperately ill. what is needed s no meek, faint hearted attemp at curriculum revision or student centered learning. we need to completely restructure our tinking about what school are and what we expect of the students who attend them.
The first change needed to save our schools is the most fundamental one.Not only must we stop forcing everyone to attend school we must stop alllowing attendance of so called students who are not interested in studying. Mandatory school attendance is based upon the idea that every american has a right to basic education . but as the old saying goes your rights stop where the next guy's begin. A student who sincerely wants an education, regardless of his or her mental or physical ability should be wwelcome in any school in this country. but students physical ability should be welcome in any school in this country. but students who deliberately interfere with other students' ability to learn teachers' ability to teach, and administrators' ability to maintain order should be denied a place in the classroom. they do not want an education. and they should not be allowed to mark time-within school walls, waiting to be handed their meaningless diplomas while they make it harder for everyone around them to either provide or receive a quality education.......
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