Alright, so we need to find a way to change the educational system in order to better the future lives of America. As some rough ideas we should first focus on how the information is relayed to the students themselves and how to improve their studies. Secondly we should focus on school hours and lastly work out the kinks that could keep a student from learning correctly.
If first we make it so that information given to students and how to improve their studies is implemented I believe that students will effectively rise within the system. Doing this would require revising all current student work material and putting it into an easy to understand format that most people would not have a hard time understanding the material. Doing so would require a long time, I realize that, but Rome wasn't built in a day. Now it comes down to note taking. Students today usually seem to have hard to read handwriting and some even have chicken scratch, though some like myself write in cursive and that can also be hard to read as well, but if schools were to apply a system in which we type down our notes and have away to access them during class, if we needed them, it would effectively deal with the time it takes to both take down notes and decode whatever handwriting that student has.
Next is school hours. Currently a student's school hours are roughly 7-9 hours depending on the school which they go to. Honestly I think this is to long as it takes up much of a student's day and time in which they could be doing homework, or just as well hanging out with friends. Students get stressed out too you know... To fix this problem a 6 hour schedule could be implemented with 4 classes a day consisting of 1HR15Min. class a day with a 30 minute breakfast period before first period and a 30 minute lunch period or an hour lunch period altogether.
Last, but not least we have the issue of solving the problem of how to fix problems students have with learning. A student can either be hands-on or one who learns from reading a book, but this hinders the hands-on students as most schools lack the required material to teach a hands-on student how the material functions. This could be fixed by adding more physical classes and hopefully a larger school budget to all schools in the country to run these classes. One other problem is behavior, as it can be affected by other students, teachers, or personal problems. Being a student myself I've had my fair share of run-ins with both problematic students and senile teachers and honestly, it's a rather perplexing problem to fix because rowdy students are simply misunderstood and have grown that way through life and senile teachers are just becoming old. For the students problems, getting either a stricter or kinder teacher could solve the problems in which the students are facing. For the senile teachers.... they could be disposed of if enough reports of the teacher had been turned in by the students. A good 150 reports within 3 years maybe?
I personally believe that that some students do get the material but because of the home work they fail the class. Many students that get the materal see the home work as poointless because it holds no reason for it to be done. having a 6 hour day would create more home work and a higher fail rate. Also for the 30 minute breakfast thing, not everyone eats breakfast and for those people it would be wasted time.
ReplyDeleteThough true, some material in class is utterly ludicrous to the lesson being learned. Take math class for example; you sit around learning the lesson from a book, but when you finally get to the lesson you think to yourself "I've never seen this in my life!"
ReplyDeleteA 30 minute breakfast time would help students who have no choice but to skip breakfast because they no time at all to eat it at either home or if they arrive late.