Check out this list of the presidential candidates views on education. It is a bit tongue in cheek, but, oh, so true.
What should the next president focus on when it comes to educating America' students?
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I think that we should do a heavy revision to our education system. I honestly believe that teacher's are relying on homework way too much to teach students how to do something. Some students could care less and just teach. America needs to find a different method of teaching because giving a teacher giving a lecture and then passing out a worksheet isn't going to always assure that a student will learn it. And then comes the big final test which is graded on how much you hopefully learned over a chapter.
I think that "mini-quizzes" should be taken over the course a section of the chapter every day or so that should not always be graded. The teacher should then look over the quizzes and review what material students mostly did not get right. This would assure better understanding.
Sorry on the line "Some students could care less and just teach." I meant to say "Some students could care less and just cheat their way through high school."
Huckabee: for e), there's a thing called seperation of Church and School, but better than guiliani
and I'll stop w/ McCain for now: So...he was against sending money to schools because he believes that schools need to have competition..Uh come again? I'll finish this up tonight...ciao
Okay I'm here to finish up the canidates now!! Aren't you all excited? =)
Romney: Honey, the NCLB Act hasn't helped any school. According to nationmaster, the United States is #40 on the list of a literate population. Moldova, Cuba, Estonia and even Liechtenstein is above the US of A!! So tell me, has NCLB done anything but put pressure on the students, teachers, and parents and to lower our scores? I think it's about time we all moved to Japan
Thompson: "a) Schools continue to fail our children and endanger America's future competitiveness." Well what are teachers supposed to do? Give them an A for effort? If they don't do the work, they don't deserve the grade. But I like the "c) I voted for NCLB but I made a mistake."
Done w/ Republicans, haha Democrats' turn now!
The worst possible person for the job: 2 things-->
"e) The school is a team, and I think it's important that we reward that collaboration." ---Okay. Sure school is a 'team' as you said. But come on. How is doing group work going to teach the students how to independent? They're going to grow up knowing that no matter what, they get to do things in a group, which unfortunately, is wrong.
"f) You need to weed out the teachers not doing a good job. That's the bottom line. They should not be teaching our children." --->Her standards of a bad teacher and my standards of a bad teacher are completely different more than likely. Everybody has their own opinion on a bad teacher, so you can't fire all the bad teachers. But then again, there would be quite a few openings in Redfield...
Edwards: Okay you're not half bad...I'll leave it at that.
Kucinich: I like d) and f).
And last, but not least, the 2nd worst person for the job: No comment. Like I said, you're the 2nd worst choice for the job.
And besides, how can this site be trusted? It doesn't even list all of the canidates!!! Hello? Ron Paul is running, as is Gore, Biden, and Richardson....But whatever. And besides, I don't know if I was supposed to write down my opinions on EVERYBODY.
What they say confuse me so much. They need to get their priorities straight. They need to focuse less on schools and more on the money problem our country has. None of this makes sense. We need people who will work on our national debt. It is not helping that we are going into a recession. That normally leads to depression. I do not want this country to fall into that. We need someone who will lower taxes, pay off national debt, and get this country more unified. So what if our stuff is not working. If we had more fun and a little less tests we might get somewhere. What is the point if they check up on schools and try to do stuff like that. The government pulls so much crap that I do not get what they are trying to do. If something happens with the school, like not getting enough good grades, our school system falls apart if we do not get the money from the government. We would struggle more because we couldn't spend as much on school supplies. What good is that. Plus good teachers would have to leave and a "swat teacher team" would come in. They might not be nice they might not be helpful, and schools fall to pieces over it. What good is that. So bull on what the presidents say about schools, tell them to worry about other problems dealing with our economics and money. Someone should tell them to do something productive and not to worry about school. Just give us the money to learn, and ignore us. Students don't like government cameras and stuff. What is school becoming, a prison? Like I said before, tell the government to mind their own problems and maybe they will be more popular when voting time comes around
I think that teachers should teach instead of giving huge asignments and less teaching. Because if you give a student an assignment that they do not want to do all they have to do is CHEAT off of another student. If you do more preaching and less homework the student will do the work and know better how to do it instead not knowing how to do it at all.
I think teachers should teach us what they know we need in the future to be successful instead of wasting our time on the stuff that will not help us in the future. Also they should teach us more about countries and what we need to know for businesses to be SUCCESSFUL later on.
Well if someone can make this country have more of a trade surplus and we actually tried to make a difference, something might have actually worked. But since the political parties can't agree on a good nation leader it will never get done. Our teachers can't solve that problem but presidents can by looking at history and preparing themselves. This Country is millions in the hole. The US can't pay off the debts enough to pull themselves together. So this won't work. That is your answer ashley
Cody- can you be specific about the skills that you and your classmates need to to learn to do well in the future? What countries and what methods? How can teachers stop all the cheating?
10 comments:
I think that we should do a heavy revision to our education system. I honestly believe that teacher's are relying on homework way too much to teach students how to do something. Some students could care less and just teach. America needs to find a different method of teaching because giving a teacher giving a lecture and then passing out a worksheet isn't going to always assure that a student will learn it. And then comes the big final test which is graded on how much you hopefully learned over a chapter.
I think that "mini-quizzes" should be taken over the course a section of the chapter every day or so that should not always be graded. The teacher should then look over the quizzes and review what material students mostly did not get right. This would assure better understanding.
Sorry on the line "Some students could care less and just teach." I meant to say "Some students could care less and just cheat their way through high school."
Guiliani: "Ay Hitler"
Huckabee: for e), there's a thing called seperation of Church and School, but better than guiliani
and I'll stop w/ McCain for now: So...he was against sending money to schools because he believes that schools need to have competition..Uh come again? I'll finish this up tonight...ciao
Okay I'm here to finish up the canidates now!! Aren't you all excited? =)
Romney: Honey, the NCLB Act hasn't helped any school. According to nationmaster, the United States is #40 on the list of a literate population. Moldova, Cuba, Estonia and even Liechtenstein is above the US of A!! So tell me, has NCLB done anything but put pressure on the students, teachers, and parents and to lower our scores? I think it's about time we all moved to Japan
Thompson: "a) Schools continue to fail our children and endanger America's future competitiveness." Well what are teachers supposed to do? Give them an A for effort? If they don't do the work, they don't deserve the grade. But I like the "c) I voted for NCLB but I made a mistake."
Done w/ Republicans, haha Democrats' turn now!
The worst possible person for the job: 2 things-->
"e) The school is a team, and I think it's important that we reward that collaboration."
---Okay. Sure school is a 'team' as you said. But come on. How is doing group work going to teach the students how to independent? They're going to grow up knowing that no matter what, they get to do things in a group, which unfortunately, is wrong.
"f) You need to weed out the teachers not doing a good job. That's the bottom line. They should not be teaching our children."
--->Her standards of a bad teacher and my standards of a bad teacher are completely different more than likely. Everybody has their own opinion on a bad teacher, so you can't fire all the bad teachers. But then again, there would be quite a few openings in Redfield...
Edwards: Okay you're not half bad...I'll leave it at that.
Kucinich: I like d) and f).
And last, but not least, the 2nd worst person for the job: No comment. Like I said, you're the 2nd worst choice for the job.
And besides, how can this site be trusted? It doesn't even list all of the canidates!!! Hello? Ron Paul is running, as is Gore, Biden, and Richardson....But whatever. And besides, I don't know if I was supposed to write down my opinions on EVERYBODY.
Oh well...their loss
What they say confuse me so much. They need to get their priorities straight. They need to focuse less on schools and more on the money problem our country has. None of this makes sense. We need people who will work on our national debt. It is not helping that we are going into a recession. That normally leads to depression. I do not want this country to fall into that. We need someone who will lower taxes, pay off national debt, and get this country more unified. So what if our stuff is not working. If we had more fun and a little less tests we might get somewhere. What is the point if they check up on schools and try to do stuff like that. The government pulls so much crap that I do not get what they are trying to do. If something happens with the school, like not getting enough good grades, our school system falls apart if we do not get the money from the government. We would struggle more because we couldn't spend as much on school supplies. What good is that. Plus good teachers would have to leave and a "swat teacher team" would come in. They might not be nice they might not be helpful, and schools fall to pieces over it. What good is that. So bull on what the presidents say about schools, tell them to worry about other problems dealing with our economics and money. Someone should tell them to do something productive and not to worry about school. Just give us the money to learn, and ignore us. Students don't like government cameras and stuff. What is school becoming, a prison? Like I said before, tell the government to mind their own problems and maybe they will be more popular when voting time comes around
I think that teachers should teach instead of giving huge asignments and less teaching. Because if you give a student an assignment that they do not want to do all they have to do is CHEAT off of another student. If you do more preaching and less homework the student will do the work and know better how to do it instead not knowing how to do it at all.
I think teachers should teach us what they know we need in the future to be successful instead of wasting our time on the stuff that will not help us in the future. Also they should teach us more about countries and what we need to know for businesses to be SUCCESSFUL later on.
" We need someone who will lower taxes, pay off national debt, and get this country more unified."
Tell me Judd-what canidate running for presidency can do that. None of them, that's who.
""swat teacher team""
Love that!
"If you do more preaching and less homework the student will do the work and know better how to do it instead not knowing how to do it at all."
No, that'd just put the kids to sleep. Trust me, I've been through it =P
Well if someone can make this country have more of a trade surplus and we actually tried to make a difference, something might have actually worked. But since the political parties can't agree on a good nation leader it will never get done. Our teachers can't solve that problem but presidents can by looking at history and preparing themselves. This Country is millions in the hole. The US can't pay off the debts enough to pull themselves together. So this won't work. That is your answer ashley
Cody- can you be specific about the skills that you and your classmates need to to learn to do well in the future? What countries and what methods? How can teachers stop all the cheating?
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