Friday, October 15, 2010

On the subject of public schools with "balanced calenders"

Year Round School?
There are people still alive today that got their
education from a one room country shack.


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http://www.pittsborooneroomschool.org/

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There's a lot of neighborhoods that have intelligent children that need attention.. You just can't tell that they're intelligent because they stay quiet from fear of ridicule.. All different types of children bully other children who are smarter or who always seem to get the answer right.. If you get too many answers right, you learn to start being quiet. It doesn't take too long before people think the kid's a dumbass because they never say anything... In the tougher neighborhoods, those people are sitting in the same class right next to the paste eaters and the teacher may or may not be paying attention to either one of them.. We shouldn't punish the paste eaters or the strong silent types just because Dad chose to live in Vegas because it’s central to the carnival circuit or because Mom is concentrating on her career position down at Classy Chasse.. Vitamins are a supplement for the needed nutrition we consume from food.. Schools should be a supplement for the needed education we receive from our parents, guardians, mentors and families but more often that is not the case We are probably never going to get slacker parents to step up and if we don’t pay attention to their kids it won’t be too long before
they’re snatching our purses and stealing our car radios. (Yeah, the kid totally
destroyed our dashboard for an AM - FM radio not even worth $2) .. There are
gobs and gobs of people still alive who went to school in a one room shack.. The
public education system in The US is mostly a by-product of our victory in World
War II, so we really don’t have a lot of experience in educating the masses.
 Things are better than when I was a kid living in a rough neighborhood but
there are rougher neighborhoods now and there seems to be a lot more of them..
Maybe we need to stop digging into these Baghdad and Kabul neighborhoods and
start working on our own.. For my kid, I’d prefer ten weeks of summer vacation
but there’s no doubt in my mind that for these and a ton of other reasons we
will not be allowed to ignore the children of slacker parents.  

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