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| Question about K-12 education. | |
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| tomdrobin | Mar 11 2013, 11:37 PM Post #41 |
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To be successful kids have to be motivated, many are not due to physical and environmental factors like their home life. The idea that you can just make changes to schools and fix that is misguided. Of course there is always room for improvement, and changes need to be made, but that won't fix the issue of students being inherently slow or unmotivated. In my own extended family I have noted that while schools make a difference, it takes individual initiative and motivation. I've seen kids going to the exact same school, and one comes out college ready and went on attain an engineering degree from a major university. And, the other struggled to get through, and spent their life being dependent on others. We have teachers, engineers, graphic artists and health care professionals in our family. As well as farmers and cops. But, we also have a few low achievers who smoke, do drugs, drink excessively and had about zero motivation in school. All those types are struggling in the current environment and are a burden to relatives and taxpayers. I'm not naive enough to think it's the schools fault. As all of these individuals had the same educational opportunities. The under achievers because of their financial status had opportunities for an almost completely paid higher education, but blew it off. The achievers had to take out loans etc., but still succeeded. Also the idea that if a student can't do well academically they can be successful in a trade is going away. Even the trades demand a fairly high degree of reading, math, computer and science skills and will continue to demand more in the future. |
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