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Question about K-12 education.
Topic Started: Mar 9 2013, 12:44 AM (747 Views)
colo_crawdad
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Should the public school attempt to prepare all students to attend colleges and universities or should the schools prepare all students to enter the job market. Perhaps some should be prepared for one and others for the other. Perhaps K-12 education should also prepare some students for job training schools beyond grade 12.
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Mar 9 2013, 12:44 AM
Should the public school attempt to prepare all students to attend colleges and universities or should the schools prepare all students to enter the job market. Perhaps some should be prepared for one and others for the other. Perhaps K-12 education should also prepare some students for job training schools beyond grade 12.
No to the first part of your question, yes to the rest.
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Public schools should not prepare for college?? Really?
Fact is they are doing neither in many places. If you can't read I'm not sure what you are prepared for.
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Mar 9 2013, 01:44 AM
Public schools should not prepare for college?? Really?
Fact is they are doing neither in many places. If you can't read I'm not sure what you are prepared for.
Not for everyone, because not everyone is going to college. Those kids need to be taught how to make a living without a college education.
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No prepare them for college and the they go to a trade school for job training.
Everyone coming out of the system should be educated enough to enter college.
It is unbelievable that you favor dumbing down our future.
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Mar 9 2013, 01:52 AM
No prepare them for college and the they go to a trade school for job training.
Everyone coming out of the system should be educated enough to enter college.
It is unbelievable that you favor dumbing down our future.
Some kids don't want to be college educated. They want to learn what they want to learn. When forced to read Shakespeare and Chaucer and learn phyics and trig, it turns them off and they quit school or give up and hope to get a diploma anyway.
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Kids don't get to choose whether they want an education that's why school is mandatory.
I'm tired of having to explain basic things to you.
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Mar 9 2013, 02:17 AM
Kids don't get to choose whether they want an education that's why school is mandatory.
I'm tired of having to explain basic things to you.
Explain how you can make a kid learn. Mandatory school or not.
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Many students never will become rocket scientists but would enjoy work in the trades,maintenance,fishermen etc. Why force higher education on them and make them feel like lesser people because they missed college.
Teach basic math,communication skills.how to write a sentence without spelling errors etc.
I've worked with brilliant engineers,architects,and the like that if pushed into the "common" world would still be standing there picking their noses trying to figure out something simple.
Bill Gates,Steve Jobs were great people and inventors who I admire greatly but they are few and far between.
Let's let those who will never attain college level scores find their own way to save the world and be happy,happy.
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I have a feeling MR may have been one who did not learn in school so he is trying to validate others doing the same. lol
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