Education - How would you modify it?

[deloriagod]

Better sex education. God, not just that freaking "don't do it and you don't get pregnant" crap. I'm not out of high school yet, and I still don't know how to put on a condom. They should teach things like that in school. Screw the [wagon] that will giggle everytime someone says "penis", if better sex education stops one unwanted baby from coming into this world, then it's a good cause.

 

 

 

Lucky for you, the boxes that condoms come in generally explain how to put it on. Otherwise it's a fairly simple matter of rolling it on. But I do completely agree with a better s ex education rather than just being told about STDs and abstinence.

[imaerehw14]

Actually, I am writing an oratory about this for my Debate tournaments. My main idea I am going to follow is the saying; "it's not that we didn't care, it's just that we didn't have time."

 

 

 

I am going to make my main points as follows:

 

 

 

1) critique the education system

 

2) apply the blame

 

3) reform it.

 

 

 

I don't have it fully written as of yet, but this is the main basis of my argument. The current system basically creates stagnation, or the cease of movement and growth. The system basically allows for the students to accept and expect the mass memorization of information, rather than the application of such information. The teachers are just as bad, they accept this as the form in which they portray their knowledge in the classroom, exceptions to the rule always happen of course. and we cant forget the administrators! should they not be pushing for reform, rather then being okay with the status quo and allowing this to happen in their schools? and finally, the government is to blame as well. NCLB and other mandates make it impossible to have a good learning environment.

 

 

 

the reform would be giving students the power, not the teachers. Paulo Freire thought that the teaching system in which you give a student a "bank account" and the teacher is meant to fill it with information was the worst way. He pushed for another system in which the students were to reach a point to where they recognize connections between their individual problems and experiences and the social contexts in which they are embedded. in a sense, they use application of the real world in their education to get the most out of it.

 

 

 

but now i have to expand upon that to make it 8-10 minutes when i recite it. blehh. but yeah, that is my main idea on education reform.

[Da Pirates]

Co-ed bathrooms, think of the money we could have saved by only making 1 bathroom.

[purfishx]

Co-ed bathrooms, think of the money we could have saved by only making 1 bathroom.

 

 

 

:twss:

 

 

 

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Not necessarily do away with uniforms altogether, but make alterations to the uniform itself to make it more comfortable. LET ME WEAR MY SHIRT OUTSIDE MY PANTS FFS!!

[imaerehw14]

Co-ed bathrooms, think of the money we could have saved by only making 1 bathroom.

 

 

 

Perfect! while we are at it, I think co-ed locker rooms are a good idea too. And since schools are sometimes upwards of 30 minutes away, unsupervised co-ed living quarters would be necessary even at the public level. And since most schools are probably underfunded, I think sharing beds is a good idea too. it saves money :D

[Furah]

I'm sure this has been said countless times previously, and sorry for not reading the whole thing, but I'd change this.

 

 

 

I'd make homework optional, I mean it's alright for review and stuff, and I'd do a good chunk of it anyways, but I just don't see the need to do it if I completely understand the topic we're learning about. I think for some kids, it's a hassle, between sports, little siblings, work, and other activities they really don't have much time, and it does kill people's grades a ton. Homework in 3 out of my 4 classes is 25% of my grade.

 

I think that depends. The fact of the matter is (if we're talking about the UK system, I'm not sure exactly how it works in the US, Canada or Australia) you need to be doing homework at secondary school to keep up with the wide variety of lessons you're doing. At college though, I think that's different. Homework should be optional at that point.

 

 

 

If I can die for my country at the age most people go to college then I should be able to decide what I do with my free time, homework included. College as it is is a joke. They still baby you around like they did in secondary school. That's why people need to learn about independent learning, so people feel inspired to study by themselves and do the work asked of them, rather than shoving the work down their throat and giving them a little green report card if they don't do the work.

 

 

 

Children are maturing too fast these days, and even though the work is easy, there's way too much pressure for young people to do well academically. I think it's got to the point where tutors give homework for the sake of giving homework just so they look like they're doing something, and that just strangles even more time away from young people who need some sort of time in which to mature properly.

 

 

 

In short: college just needs to be a more mature place.

 

 

 

In Aus homework is pretty much just doing what we did in the lesson, aka they found out how to extend lesson times -.-

 

 

 

Co-ed bathrooms, think of the money we could have saved by only making 1 bathroom.

 

 

 

Perfect! while we are at it, I think co-ed locker rooms are a good idea too. And since schools are sometimes upwards of 30 minutes away, unsupervised co-ed living quarters would be necessary even at the public level. And since most schools are probably underfunded, I think sharing beds is a good idea too. it saves money :D

 

 

 

A lifetime supply of cookies at 12 free internets would be your if that worked (most of the guys in my school would do anything for that, stupid [wagons])

[dragoonson]

School shouldn't punish for stunts pulled on the last day,honestly.Its a day for celebration,according to the principal.Yet here I am a month later serving "detention time" for my Pope of Awesome stunt.

 

 

 

I just remembered why I am,it was either a month during the holidays or the rest of next year.I chose the year month

[Will H]

I agree with the OT about the various exam boards, but I think that the best move would be for some kind of 'super-board' to evaluate the difficulty of different courses on the same subject, and then make the easier ones harder and vice versa.

 

 

 

IGCES should be accessible to all schools, and should be recognised by the government.

 

 

 

The Head of School should reserve the right to suspend or expel any student. Teachers should reserve the right to give out detentions up to 1 hour during school days, and 3 hours during a Saturday. Students should reserve the right to appeal any punishment to a board of teachers other than the one who delivered the punishment.

 

 

 

Homework should be allowed, but steps must be taken if it is generally felt that it is replacing teaching, no copy-pasting from books. It should be at the minimum possible level.

 

 

 

Schools should be strongly encouraged to have Uniforms, but their design should be decided by the Head of School.

 

 

 

Science, Maths, English and at least one Modern Language (French/German/Spanish/Russian/Italian/Mandarin Chinese/etc.) should be compulsory at GCSE level.

 

 

 

Students must have a significant say about changes in the school.

 

 

 

There's probably loads of other things I'd do, but I can't think of any more big ones right now.

[Housepig]

This is something I've often thought about.

 

 

 

Firstly, I would remove Religious Education from the syllabus, as I believe all religions are untrue, and the teaching of their beliefs takes up valuable time that could be spent on something more usefull. Secondly, I would also remove Physical Education. In my opinion, sport should not be taught in schools under any circimstances, as it serves no purpose other than leisiure. Those who want to learn it could, of course, sign on do do extra-curricular sport, but no-one else would.

 

 

 

To combat obesity, all pupils would take part in a compulsory 15 minute jog before lessons every day. Those to unfit to complete it would be permitted to walk, as long as they jogged as much as they were physically capable of.

 

 

 

Punishments for laziness in the morning excerise and bullying would be made very severe, in order to act as a deterrant. Finally, students with difficulties in academic subjects would be forced to work for themselves, rather than have teaching assistants to help them.