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Originally Posted by kane
The kids are a big part of what is wrong with the system for sure. Here is a good example. When I was in high school we didn't have a school uniform, but there was a dress code. If you wore shorts they had to be low enough that they came to within 2 inches of your knees. No tank tops, no spaghetti tops or sleeveless shirts. Now girls dress like strippers and guys have their pants so low their entire asses are hanging out. When I asked a teacher why the school lets them dress that way I was told that they can't stop them. Too many parents complained that this was the style so the school had to give in.
The kids run the schools these days. Hell, my nephew literally failed every class his 8th grade year and the school told my brother that they wouldn't hold him back unless his parents instructed them to. He is my brother's step-son and his mom refused to hold him back so he moved on to high school where he was expelled at the start of his junior year. He failed half his classes his freshman and sophomore, but still allowed to finish up a few homework packets and graduate. He has a diploma in hand and is, honestly, sadly, a functioning illiterate. He reads and writes at about a 5th grade level.
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This is not true at all. The kids do not run the school.
My kid's school doesn't have a uniform, but it surely has a dress code and it's well enforced. Tank tops, cut off sleeves, and no spaghetti straps. Spaghetti straps aren't even allowed at the dances. My was kid was sent home last year once because her shorts were "too short".
And somewhere along the line if someone's kid reads and writes at the 5th grade level and graduates from high school... This shouldn't be blamed on the teachers. Kids gets report cards sent home, parents should know what level they are reading at, as well as their STAR testing. If at some point in time a kid is below level, the parents need to do something about it. My kid was doing poor in math last year. It's not the teacher's fault - They teacher has twenty-four kids in her class and twenty-three of them are doing fine in math. We were told she was testing well below average in math and she was failing. We started paying more attention, helping her with her homework, making sure assignments were turned in, and this summer we bought her extra study material (books) and put her in tutoring. My kid just missed two weeks of school due to our vacation, took a math test that was covered when she was out on vacation, and got a perfect score.
While I'm ranting... We bitch about how we spend less and less on schools... Have you been to your kid's school recently? The blackboard has been replaced by a dry erase board, but otherwise it's the same - same desks, same books, same pencils, same silly stuff on the walls that we had when we were kids. But there's more - the overhead projector has been replaced with a digital camera that hangs above her desk so students can watch what the teach is doing... The teacher also has a laptop, a classroom computer, and remember that tall cart with the VCR and TV? That's been replaced by a DVD system with a wall mounted flat screen... Seems to me like they have it all now, yet oddly enough we blame everything on the schools and our teachers.
The problem isn't the schools or the teachers. It's the parents.