Re: Money and the environment
If learning is not fun it will not be continued past the forced session. So while I do agree that there is a major problem with schools I do not agree that learning should be forced, or boring, or that it cannot be fun.
My son begs me to do schoolwork most days, he loves the learning, both what as seen as work and, that which is not seen as work. , I do not have to make it boring, nor do I have to force him to know much of anything, he loves to learn all I have to do is encourage, assist, and occasionally direct him to something useful.
Also hungry kids do not learn very well, so I do feel there is need of making sure kids can eat. But I also feel that to much tax money is spent on babysitting, the system doesn't make it easy or even half the time encourage people to get out. Instead it makes it easy to 'float', both in welfare and in school. Churning out high school grads with no real skills to get by, ending up pften back on the welfare and with children in the ps system leanring the same nothing they did. Not a cool cycle.
Breaking it is the only way IMO to change the course of the education in our country. Drop the PS system, replace it with encouragement and assistance for self motivation.
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