Posted on 11/10/2018 4:25:35 PM PST by BruceDeitrickPrice
We have younger employees 18 - 21 who have zero desire for improvement or want more responsibility. Most work enough hours to buy more video games, concert tickets and fast food plus put gas in the car if they own one. These “kids” seem to be happy with just enough to get by.
Yeah, my guess was gonna be too much weed, but it’s too vague what the problem is. I don’t how you can raise more than one child and not have the foggiest idea why they have a lack of drive.
I don’t understand it, either.
Some teachers are almost forced to give passing or high grades to students who don’t deserve them. The forcing comes from both parents who don’t want the child to ever hear a discouraging word and from school boards who don’t want to be accused of over stressing the students.
Many parents grew up in families that never took completion of homework, good attendance or respecting their teachers as serious, worthy goals. This easy way out of hard work is rationalized and passed on to their children.
I agree with him and it is from personal experience as a student as a parent. Unlike many I did not wait for school to get my daughter started, she was typically babysat by my mother in law who made sure she watched sesame street and other similar programs that were good starters. I worked with her personally on flash cards and other things and did not do the 2+2+4 where she had to respond and move ahead. As long as she was paying attention it was getting in and came out later. She took piano lessons at 4 and when she was in daycare in Kindergarten she could read quite proficiently. The keys here were phonics, vowels and other foundations.
I agree also that the curriculum is deliberately slowed down and students not being able to even read I blame on whole language, memorizing words and not sounding them out or understanding root words. I got no help from my parents and as others have stated when I was in 2nd grade and learned all the foundations I found the Colliers encyclopedia and I was on my way. In 3rd grade after testing my parents were told I needed to be promoted 1 grade and 2 the following year. They refused and I was bored for the next 3 years.
So what was the difference?
Foundations, alphabet, vowels, phonics, syllables, punctuation. Then reading came easy and the only thing that changed was the subject matter and reading speed. The pace in grade schools as well as the methods are awful and “new” methods are left in place to the point that students graduate HS not able to read and write.
Parents now a days were brought up on new math etc, and I will agree that involvement in your child’s education and progress is important but when the Edutocracy fails to even provide decent remedial instruction it is well past time for a change
Personally I have taught classes highly technical in content over multiple computer systems, Operating system version and field service of them on multiple continents and the class never lasted more than 2 weeks per iteration.
We do not challenge our children nearly enough and with the right foundations, they can excel as students in other countries prove every day. And to the parents who just want little Johnny to be happy and take his cell phone to school in grade school you reap what you sow.
Just so we are all on the same page, I have spoken to Bruce on multiple occasions about education at all levels as it has been a huge part of my professional career. He has extensive knowledge and I consider him as one of if not my most valuable compatriots in this field.
In a short article he cannot totally express his passion for education, he is not into gimmicks but hard core foundations and accelerated pace not glacially paced classes that bore the kids to sleep
Icing on the cake, in the business world it is said that those who cannot do, teach, and that also permeates the college ranks where finding a single professor who has ever worked in what they teach is a fools errand. It is virtually all theory
Can the current model and revamp it to challenge them and they will rise to occasion, my daughter did and others can too.
My thinking. If she relied on only the public school to teach her children they have been denied proper training. Schools don’t teach responsibility, discipline, goal setting, accountability, etc, etc.
My grandson recently finished Air Force basic training and one of the first things he wrote home was these guys don’t even know basic problem solving or conflict resolution. He put it upon himself to teach them.
It couldn’t be slowing the entire class’ progress down to the slowest students’ pace so as to not allow the slow students to feel an ounce of anxiety or stress at being the "kid left behind." Nah, it couldn’t be that.
It couldn’t be that the policy of mainstreaming disruptive and difficult to teach special needs students in regular classrooms requires an inordinate amount of the teacher’s time which guarantees that regular students get far less instruction time than they should be receiving, all in the name of an illusion goal of liberal equality and fairness which ignores reality. Nah, it couldn’t be that.
It couldn’t be that legislative mandates to spend precious school time studying Liberal pet issues such as global warming, gender and specific racial studies, or learning the Koran to the exclusion of other religious philosophies takes time away from learning much more useful disciplines such as math and real science. Nah, it can’t be that.
ok, thanks, no ill will towards author
The schools needs to be reformed, but it won’t be until we get a better grip on voting reforms. The Socialists are brainwashing our kids, so if we want to give our kids incentives, we need to homeschool. The educators don’t care about the kids, it’s about the money.
Good book on under achievers and how to motivate them: Empowering Underachievers.
Article says “basics and essentials, especially reading.” In other words, the article is talking about elementary education, or lack thereof. Traditionally, children in elementary school learned reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, history, science, etc.
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