schools are ruining kids life with more school hours and less teaching?
438386
Yes. First, the level of teaching is low. All sciences' basics are simple, but teachers don't know how to explain it. They are not trained and paid enough. Second, schools do not teach how to cope with life. They don't teach how to react to problems, get out of depressions, how to connect to people, or integrate in groups. Third, schools don't teach how to start a business, and what problems are associated with this enterprise. Even if you're an employee, still you need to know what's going on in economy. \n\nSchools don't serve students, but the society's status quo.
105769
Hmm, I believe you answered your own question. I would also agree that too many parents think school is too hard on their children, when the truth is that's the way it supposed to be. It's all about "stretching young minds."
188778
They dont deal with it that why the schools are so bad now days!
43653
You could argue, it's not directly the kids, rather the influence of many factors upon them.\n\nSome would be:\nLess restrictive upbringing. The trend these days seems to be to let kids do whatever they want with very little or no punishment, this is hopeless for instilling responsibility.\n\nInformation age. You don't have to work to find anything - it's on the internet, or you text a buddy or you call on the cell - people can get lazier.\n\nIn the US - education quality has declined - relates to responsibility and sense of self-worth.
348708
yes it is a bad idea but what would be the solution ? have you tried getting involve in the school and to offer reasonable solutions ? if nothing works and you are concerned enough then wait to take your child to school just in-time for class or have someone else do it for you. you could also try another school. lol.
700347
You're opinion is accurate about most public schools and it's sad that they have become that way. No Child Left Behind needs to be left behind. Students don't have motivation anymore because just like you said, they don't have discipline and could care less.  NCLB causes teachers to rush and teach to the test and it takes any possible fun or spare time out of learning thus making it even harder to get the kids to listen and try their best.
188077
Schools are on a downward spiral because our\nsociety has no clue as to the solution to\nthe problem of disfunctional homes.  The \nmajority of education is left up to the schools\nwith less and less instructional time.  The\nweeks of testing could be used for helping with\nthe problem.  We have 100% accountability for\nteachers and 0% for parents and students.  As\na result the more competent graduates from \nuniversities are seeking better paying jobs \nwith less stress.
968511
IMHO, its not the schools job - its the parents. The schools need to (& generally do) reinforce the values but parents should be encouraged to take more responsibility for the kids they have brought into the world instead of complaining that the schools/government should do more. Flame me for it if you like but thats what I think.\nYes, I am a parent.
956798
The fact is that after years of learning, someone along the line decided to take the fun out of it and give you book work, busy work, and other things.  A lot of teachers are burned out with teaching kids who are burned out and don't want to learn anymore and it just becomes a vicious cycle.  \n\nStick in there.  This is your life.  You are going to make it whatever you want it to be.  Your teachers are not going to dictate your life forever.  Whatever you choose to learn will either help or hinder you, so make what you have left of school count.  Make school about you, because your grades, your test scores, your choices will only affect you.  You can make your life better after you get done with this drudgery called school if you take it seriously now.\n\nJust do it for you and nobody else.
455505
I am a grown man,but I remember homework,and I agree that it is not right.The education system is paid to teach our children and kids are required to spend,eight full hours a day of their lives in school.Five days a week,and three quarters of the year.Their time at home should be their FREE time.Tottally unconnected with school and schoolwork.If eight hours a day isn`t enough to teach them,then something is wrong with the system.
104379
YOU GOT US ALL WONDERING, NOWADAYS, kids are refusing to learn and learning in not to work because there is other ways of getting money, from stealing to selling drugs. This had me wondering, I personally know some kids just finished graduating from university schools and they CAN NOT MAKE SIMPLY CHANGE AS AN CASHIER, UNLESS THEY HAVE A COMPUTER OR AN CACULATOR TODO THAT FOR THEM! Well im 33 year old and have 2 kids in school and now its mandatory for them to have calculators. When I was in there grades WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE ONE, the only thing we were allowed to use  was a piece of paper or our heads to calculate a answer. Now i see this "graduate" university kids acting like this. I KNOW ITS GOING TO BE A VERY SCARY FUTURE. Those kids someday might be our president of our country, or our future doctors.  Tell you the truth I rather off being dead than alive. Even highschool kids are getting to be very scary. If they don't have there names written down on a piece of paper, Im pretty sure they will forget in how to spell it. The best way to resolve this us parents must Demand for higher school achievements or standards. and not let those standards get any lower, then they are set now! and start demanding kids todo more educational things other than letting them play a PS2 system for hours on ends so they can master the game, and it doesn't stops there, have you heard the music they listen, especially to rap, in how they are killing people and being in gangs or doing drugs or talking about sex. these rappers now have have to change there lyrics to get kids into staying in school and promote something to better our kids SO WE CAN ALL HAVE A BETTER FUTURE. IF WE CAN PULL THIS OFF our future will be better and will be more secured than it sits as now.
1180150
I'm an elementary school teacher (first grade and now kindergarten).  When you have small children with many absences or tardies, there's something wrong with the parents.  Small children need the help of adults to get to school on time.  In the case of elementary school aged children I would say yes.  When kids get to be teenagers in middle and high school, it's a  different story.  By that age I think teens should be responsible enough to get themselves to school on time.  Some kids purposely ditch certain classes.  In that case I don't think it's fair to hold parents responsible.  I think teens should be punished for ditching their classes.  Maybe they should be forced to do detention or Saturday school; if they continue, make the punishment even harsher.  Perhaps if you've been absent a certain number of days you shouldn't be allowed to graduate until you make up those hours.  Or maybe they could require teens to complete some sort of community service to make up those hours.  I think it's time that we make people responsible for their own actions.
975634
The next logical thing for the US to do is close all the schools they are obviously failing dramatically. Sorry about all the big words.
529227
Unfortunately, the public school system in america is not taken seriously enough.  Further, the students who attend our public school system (even through college) are continuiously torn down by teachers, principals, and even unknowingly, their parents.  This is done by teaching the youth of america that they should "Go to school and get a good job", when what that's actually doing is teaching a person to wear a slaves collar for the rest of their lives, be it blue or white.  A slave to the economy, to the boss who says when you can have time off, when you cant go to your kids birthday party, and how much money you should be paid per hour.  But then, there are people like me who try to teach, who show our fellow Americans that there is a way to regain their freedom, to life a life not having to give away 40+ hours a week to a job they hate, to a boss who on a bad day can put that persons name on a piece of paper, and end their job on the spot.  This country was founded on Free Enterprise, on farmers and merchants who owned businesses, however small some might have been.  Other countries, Japan for instance, still teach that kind of mentality.  Yes, education is important for it, but a major part of the problem is the angle that American schools take - and that is to teach people to be employees, not to be the employeer.\n\nSo it falls to us who try to help people after they get their flawed education, to try to free them from the system.  Show them a way to take back their lives, to decide themselves how much they will make an hour.  What hours they want to spend working, even if that's none at all.  Far too many people have had the dreamlessness of the failing American Dream drilled into them too hard anymore though, and it's impossible to free a person who prefers the collar.  Ah well.
1175198
You know what, when i was a kid my mom thought the school I was going to was not good enough for me and she wanted to send me to a private school.  My sister and I went crazy - we thought it was a punishment.  We told her that we would get ourselves thrown out of that school - so much we did not want to change and leave our friends.  They dropped the subject.\n\nFast forward 7-10 years I come to find out that everyone (I mean everyone) i really liked as an adult went to the very same school I would have been sent to, if I hadn't been such a ninny and said "No, don't spend your money and energy giving me a better education!  It is more important to me that I stay right where I am."\n\nMy point is that there is a lot to consider here.\n\nHomeschooling is a way for children to find and nurture their own particular gifts and talents.  In school settings there are just too many kids for teachers to allow kids to go at their own pace or spend extra time on what interests them.  Who do you think are going to be the leaders and sought after employees of tomorrow?  The kids with uniquely tailored education or the kids who get it out of the same can as everyone else?\n\nThere is still plenty of time to socialize - I mean how much actual social time would you be missing in school?  2 hours?  Most of the time you are not supposed to be talking - but sitting and listening.\n\nMany mothers I have told I was homeschooling my kids have said to me "Oh god - that sounds like way too much work!"  Your parents want to spend their time and energy giving you the very best education you can get.  In this world, you will surely need it.\n\nPeace!
498205
I think the Teachers need to do their jobs which they are paid for. The same thing happens in Canada -the Teachers send home homework on topics they haven't even taught on. Then they expect the parents to sit down and teach their kids the curriculeum. Not only is this unfair to the parents after a long day at work, it's unfair to the kids who spent all day in school and are exhausted. Kids should not have more than one hour homework in elementary school and two hours in high school and that includes study time. The teachers should be held accountable for passing the buck. Frankly I tell the teachers that if my kids cannot finish in a reasonable amount of time then they're giving too much homework.
201088
I don't think anybody learns anything in high school anymore. It's not really there to educate nowadays; it's just a system set in place to keep teenage kids from wandering the streets during the day - the government's way to try to cut down on vandalism and crime.