Ashley Professor R English100 3 September 2012 Comparisons on the Declining School System Have you ever thought school was boring and your teachers looked like they did not want to be there? In Ken Robinson’s video, he draws and explains the public education system and why it is not working for America today. Throughout the video he makes points that relate to Michael Moore’s excerpt “Idiot Nation”. Both men think that the school system is suppressing the students and is outdated for our nation and teachers do not have adequate supplies to teach. They want a change in the education system so that children can prosper and be able to boost our declining economy.
If students don't get punished for not coming to school, then schools will lose money and students will be missing lectures causing them to get bad grades. Students aren't graduating because they have too many unexcused absences. Ditching shouldn't be allowed and if one does ditch, then they must be punished. Some people might say Senior year in high school is a waste of time. I agree, my senior year consisted of cutting classes and not as much work.
Some academics come naturally to students and if they are outnumbered by those that don’t comprehend the lesson, then they may receive a poor grade. In the same manner if a student is outnumbered by intellectual student then they would receive a grade they did not earn. I have seen a few children in the classroom who can read really well and it would not be fair to those few students if they received a low grade because the majority of the class does not know how to read well yet. Another downside to group grading is that sometimes you find that some people work harder than others. In college as well as in kindergarten you find students that put forth no effort, when this happens you have students who are going to have to work harder to pick up the slack.
In case, the student does not obey my instruction, positive punishment, which is the application of an unfavorable stimulus after an undesirable behavior in order to decreases that response, is a very useful method and the result can be shown shortly. For example, if the students are not obey my words I would like to tell their parents and let their parents to reprimand them afterwards or I would just castigate them at that time by myself. Although the students will become dutiful in a short time, they may afraid of me after that and do not want to have a lesson again. It is no doubt that positive punishment is an effective way for punishing students and it can achieve the result in a short time, however, this is not the best way to punish the students. It is because this may not only lead to a damaged relationship between teachers and students, but also can lead to negative associations.
This allows students to feel more secure about themselves and the way they feel. A corrupted or an unhealthy family can impact a student very negatively. The student’s parents might be divorced or the parents simply don’t have time to spend time with their child. An unhealthy parental relationship may lead to extreme situations such as divorce and that would inflict unneeded pain toward the student. They may not be able to cope with it and stop doing homework, and earn bad grades not because they are inept, but they do not have any support.
The question of the assessment being appropriate for students with disabilities is also raised. Teachers feel that this time-consuming process tends to take away from other students who aren’t completing a portfolio that school year. Other complaints by teachers include the subjective nature of the scoring, the validity of the portfolio for assessing the effectiveness of a program, and the lack of support and assistance that they receive from administrators and teachers in general education in completing the portfolio assessments. Review of Related Literature Accountability for All Students
When we make good choices, we have more professional opportunities to choose from. If we make bad choices, than we have not as many choices to choose from. This can relate to the character Holden Caufield in the book The Catcher in the Rye. In the story, Holden makes some very poor academic choices. Holden says it himself that he has no idea what he wants to become and eventually is kicked out of his school because of these bad choices.
Children and people with this learning style are often perceived as being lazy or that they don’t care. When in reality they just need to be taught in a different manner than what is currently being taught in our school system. Teachers try to force the children to learn by rote memorization and drill which that type of learning is actually detrimental to this learning style it enforces the child or individual to feel like a failure, which in turn causes them to lose self esteem and start to hate learning. The Visual learner needs to see the whole picture before they can understand the parts of it; they prefer to learn by pictures, charts, graphs, diagrams, films and outlines. People with this learning style often have vivid imaginations, they tend to remember faces and not names and their facial expressions tend to show their emotions.
The idea of taking children to day-care is unacceptable to a good number of people. They probably believe this because daycare involves putting someone else in the ‘parenting’ picture, someone to spend time with, and care for the child. However, this is not exactly negative. Day-care provides care for little children while their parents attend to other things, such as attending school or working to earn a living. It is important for those people who discourage day care to realize that not all parents can afford to stay at home with their children all day, as much as they would like to.
Lastly, children have too much flexibility in their schedules and tend to not spend an adequate amount of time solely on school work. People who are opposed to homeschooling usually only have these oppositions because they have little or no knowledge on the subjects. The first myth is that people, who are homeschooled, do not have enough social interaction with other children causing them to be socially awkward. This is because people who don’t have much association with homeschoolers and believe they are isolated from the rest of the world, when really they aren’t. Children who are homeschooled have many opportunities to interact with other children of all ages and other adults.