Does standardized testing improve education in public schools? Terrie Lynn Bittner the author of Homeschoolers Should Not Take Standardized Test would argue that it has not been proven that these tests help public school students. The author states that testing is nothing more than routine memorization and not true learning. So, homeschoolers shouldn’t have to take standardized tests because the parents do not need testing to see their children’s progress. With homeschooling, the parents are the ones teaching their children, so they know their progress, strengths and weaknesses.
RELIGIOUS BELIEF SHOULD BE A MATTER OF CHOICE; SHOULD NOT PARENTS TEACH THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT RELIGION. My interpretation of this particular statement is that parents should be teaching their children about religion however, it is up to the parents and the religion they follow of whether they should teach their children about religion or not. Although to respect your parents is one of the Ten Commandments in Judaism, it may not always be done because of the relationship you have with them or sometimes you wish not to do what they have told you. This links to the choices and decisions of themselves and to learn to be independent for the real world. Some people think that when they are a certain age, the children will make their own decision of whether to be a theist, agnostic or atheist because at the end of it all they are living in this world independently and I think they have the right to make their own decisions and choices so they can, see where their own choices take them through life.
Financially you can budget your amount on materials spent and make sure for each religion or culture the same amount is spent for books etc. As children may not be comfortable learning about a different religion to their own and their parents may not agree or be happy with this there should be a consent form sent home to all parents to have the choice if they wish their child to join in with different religious/cultural activities and learning. If they do not want their child doing this then the child will be set in a different room with other children to complete a different task. This should ensure no
I have been brought up in a very mixed society but in a Church of England school where religious education was compulsory, however we still studied various other religions and were taught to respect all people, and their beliefs. Prayers were a daily thing at the end of each assembly and whether or not I wanted to pay attention to the prayer time again I had to respect the people that did. Religion may affect people in many different ways, mainly because we all come from different backgrounds and are taught differently. However, it is important to respect how people honour their religion. I am an atheist however I still make time to talk to my clients about their religion and sometimes have prayer time with them, even though my own beliefs it is not something that I choose to do as I know it makes the client happy it makes me happy to do this as I know it is something that they feel so strongly in.
But this injures students educationally as well. While the rest of the world references Vietnam in many of today’s situations or debates on whether Iraq is the next Vietnam and other issues, high school students are left out of the loop because their high school textbooks and teachers refuse to teach them what they should learn, what they ought to learn. High school students are hurt the most because of this. While textbook authors and editors are not likely to break away from the template soon, they should at least find a way around the system to provide pictures and information that would give students sufficient knowledge on the topic of Vietnam. That way students would be able to keep up with issues from which parallels to Vietnam are drawn or participate in such
When it comes to what children are reading, people only think of the bad things and what the book is about. They don’t look at how it could possibly benefit them! I think that students should be able to read books that appeal to their beliefs and culture. It could help them learn more about themselves and their religion; they can’t do that if those books are banned from school libraries and bookstores! Book banning has been going on for the past two thousand years but people still read those books!
Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7. John and Mary are having an impasse with prayer in schools. The First Amendment protects both the believers and non-believers by being neutral about belief. Children and adolescences have the right to choose to pray voluntarily. “The Supreme Court has ruled that students are allowed to organize, voluntarily, religious clubs -- which can include prayer and Bible study—at public schools, just as they might any other kind of club (Mosser, 2010, pa. 2.3)” Yes, we should keep religion and school separate, but the children has the choosing to do it voluntary.
This does not mean that parents have no rights to what happens to their child while they are at school but this allows school to guide student behaviors though discipline. This idea is called in loco parentis (pg. 378). This concept was once more important in schools than it is now but it has brought forth it idea that no matter the student, disabled or not, there needs to be a certain level of responsibility put on all students for their behaviors when they are at school. This would be a great chapter of the book for parents to read because it would help them to understand why the school is doing what it is doing.
In today’s society a variety of religions should be taught in schools. Everyone should be able to practice their own religious customs and not discrimate against others. When students of all ages break for lunch they are being deprived from participating in long practiced customs, for instance not being allowed to pray for their food. This practice has been entrenched into their daily lives, likely because this has been
These needs are displayed through their, “continuing interests in morals and ethnic concerns, and questioning concerning the quest for truth and meaning in life,” (21). The students who attend public schools consider religion nothing more than a topic to argue about. As one of the students, Enio said, “Who really cares anyway? My way of looking at things is that people can believe whatever they want,” (25). In order to improve the religious dimensions of Catholic schools students should be given the experience of other religious perspectives aside from their own.