Thursday, November 29, 2007
RHS's Mission Statement- have you read it?
RHS's mission statement is: "The Redfield School District will promote and maintain high academic expectations for students to become life-long learners and encourage them to become responsible citizens in their community and world." Are we doing this? It seems the goal is pretty lofty. Can a school, alone, create a good citizen? Haven't I heard somehwere that it takes a village to raise a child? Where is our village? Is this creation of a good citizen up to teachers and administrators only?
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I can't say that I know whether the school is trully capable of achieving its mission statement or not. I think that helping kids keep high expectations academically and and become people who want to and continue to learn through life is definitely possible, but making them responsible citizens is another task altogether. I'm not even sure we do try for the first two goals all of the time. I don't feel that many of my classmates even have expectations or a desire to learn. I think that the ones that do are creating those things for themselves and have a lot of drive and determination. I think that there are certain teachers that do really promote such ideas and some who could go out of their way a little more often. Can we create good citizens, though? To me, there isn't just one aspect of life that can make you a model citizen; I think everything comes together to mold you into one. Since we spend most of our time in school, it probably does play a large role in that if teachers, etc. can get kids to take the qualities they need to have and the lessons that are trying to be taught to them seriously. Again, I think that there are those teachers who take the purpose of the mission statement to heart and those who just do the bare minimum.
I agree with Ellen, I'm not sure if the school can really live up to its mission statement. Making students responsible citizens isn't something that the school can teach.
I believe that our school can achieve all the goals of its mission statement. We should all recognize by now that we have one of the best schools in the state academically thus taking care of "promote and maintain high academic expectations." Next, no matter what career you pursue, you will be a lifelong learner. Even if it is just useless knowledge from tv or the newspaper; it is still learning. The mission statement does not say that it will create a good citizen, but that it will ENCOURAGE students to become responsible citizens. Our school has an abundance of of opportunities for students to take advantage of and with the experiences from these we will be better prepared to enter the real world as responsible adults. Yes, I agree that a school can't make a responsible student, however, I am a firm believer that a school can encourage students to become responsible citizens and in turn most likely create responsible citizens.
Yes I believe are school can not make the students responsible citizins. I think this because the school has no power over us (the students) after school hours. There are some teachers that truly care about there students and how they act. But there are also some that just do there job and not care about the students personal life. But those teachers that do reach out to the students. create a good bond that will help them with school. it will also help them make smart dicisions after school hours.
The only thing the school can do to assist us in becoming model citizens in America is to keep us out of trouble. Nothing else. The administration can keep us out of mishaps and mischeif only from about 8:20 a.m to 3:26 p.m, and even during that small time frame their control is limited. As long as the student does not do any mischeif during those hours or do it without getting caught the student does not get punished. And after school hours, the school has no power over the students to keep them under control. As far as really anyone knows, a model student during school hours could be a violent montrosity outside of school. So can the school actually acheive its goal in making model citizens? No. They really have no power in what the students do and during school hours their power is limited by weather the student is smart enough to realize that they would get caught doing it and do it outside of school or are cunning enough to do it without getting caught. The only thing really that keeps students in line are their role models and idols such as certain teachers, friends, maybe parents.
I also think that the school can not make a student a good citizen. The teachers can teach their subject, but in the end just like Mr. Lewis says it's all about choices. In the end students choose how they want to act and how they talk.
But the school alone cannot create a good citizen it can help form one but it is ultimatly( i think i spelled that wrong) up to the student if they take what they have learned and use it for good or just forget it and form their own path....the administration is not going to teach kids to break the law but it happens anyway.. it is impossible for it to be compltely up to the administration b.c. they are not with the students 24-7 the parents have to play some part in it and the student has to want to be a good citizen ...you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
the school makes kids get there stuff done on time and done correctly. but it is up to the students to take the responsibility of a citizen after they are done with high school. the teachers are a major help for some kids to realize that they need to be a responsible citizen, but it is up to the students
You can't make kids responsible, they have to do it themselves. I know that teachers can try but we all need to work hard at it. People won't just turn in papers on time if they are never organized. Or if they never want to. So You can't really Do that for them unless they choose to ask for help.
I think the mission statement is kind of a good and bad thing. It is a good thing because it will help kids to become really good citizens in your community. It is also a bad thing because kids won't listen and they will be ignoring that statement and will wonder around the community creating theirselves a bad reputation and a bad reputation for their parents. It will be hard for the school to complete the goal. It will hard but it will only take time.
I believe in James' opinion, the school only has a limited influence on the students, yet the people in the school could have a major impact if they somehow got to know the students on a personal basis, which rarely happens...so the only real influence would be coaches, parents, and few teachers. The faculty can't create better students since this isn't an army school and we didn't sign up to be 'formed' into model citizens.
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