The thing is, David, teachers are supposed to maintain discipline in a class of 30 to 40 individual students with a few ADHD kids and maybe some functional autistic children with intelligence levels ranging from just shy of average to genius level. All with a State determined curriculum that reaches only the median to lower levels of int…
The thing is, David, teachers are supposed to maintain discipline in a class of 30 to 40 individual students with a few ADHD kids and maybe some functional autistic children with intelligence levels ranging from just shy of average to genius level. All with a State determined curriculum that reaches only the median to lower levels of intelligence.
Children are no more identical than adults. Yet we assume they are little automatons that all learn the same material in the same way at the same time. To be polite HOGWASH.
I do not blame the children or even their clueless parents. I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the stingy State legislators who either purposely or without a clue, place education at or near the bottom of their to do list.
1 teacher with 30 to 40 students, even if they were equally identical can not teach every child in that class to the best of that child's ability to comprehend and absorb the lesson. But, the computer platform has been available for at least 10 years now to do just that - teach every child in the United States to the best of that child's ability to understand.
It will be expensive in the beginning to set up, but the cost can be amortized over several years AND in the end we would have a nation of people capable of independent thought, job ready, and capable of thinking.
The thing is, David, teachers are supposed to maintain discipline in a class of 30 to 40 individual students with a few ADHD kids and maybe some functional autistic children with intelligence levels ranging from just shy of average to genius level. All with a State determined curriculum that reaches only the median to lower levels of intelligence.
Children are no more identical than adults. Yet we assume they are little automatons that all learn the same material in the same way at the same time. To be polite HOGWASH.
I do not blame the children or even their clueless parents. I place the blame squarely on the shoulders of the stingy State legislators who either purposely or without a clue, place education at or near the bottom of their to do list.
1 teacher with 30 to 40 students, even if they were equally identical can not teach every child in that class to the best of that child's ability to comprehend and absorb the lesson. But, the computer platform has been available for at least 10 years now to do just that - teach every child in the United States to the best of that child's ability to understand.
It will be expensive in the beginning to set up, but the cost can be amortized over several years AND in the end we would have a nation of people capable of independent thought, job ready, and capable of thinking.