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Extending school time~
shabutie:
IMO, there's no point in extending school hours.
Kids are going to learn based on if they want to learn or not. They can be encouraged, but the more you try to force it, the more they won't want to learn.
Anyways... I thought about this topic, then remembered, "Hey... I'm done with high school and don't plan to have kids for a long while... Why should I care?" XD Longer school days means less time for the kiddies to be on my internets! :P
Semnae:
Personally, I think it would be best if we gave students their books, gave them weekly reading assignments, and gave them a test over the material once a week. Why do we need someone to physically stand in front of everybody and tell them what's going to be on the test? It's a waste of time and money.
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: Semnae on September 29, 2009, 04:41:11 AM ---Personally, I think it would be best if we gave students their books, gave them weekly reading assignments, and gave them a test over the material once a week. Why do we need someone to physically stand in front of everybody and tell them what's going to be on the test? It's a waste of time and money.
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Personally, I think recess would be a great add back and also, a little more research into why kids suck at school is in order.
darkjedi:
Did we consider re-incorporating corporal punishment?
molbjerg:
--- Quote from: Semnae on September 29, 2009, 04:41:11 AM ---Personally, I think it would be best if we gave students their books, gave them weekly reading assignments, and gave them a test over the material once a week. Why do we need someone to physically stand in front of everybody and tell them what's going to be on the test? It's a waste of time and money.
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This was basically my degree. Self learning is OK in principle, but you feel completely disconnected and dissolusioned with what's going on. I'm far above average in terms of the students you could expect to get, but if your schooling experience is to read a book and be tested on it, my motivation would plummet as would my grades.
I think a lot of you guys are talking crap, I don't care what studies you look at, a teacher in charge of 15 students instead of 30 can do a far better job. Even if it's only because there are substantially more problems controlling a class of 30+ with just one adult. The fewer the numbers the more likely people are to speak up about what they don't understand, and yes, this will often lead to the more confident (teachers favourites) taking more teacher time... But to be honest, if you want to learn, I believe that should be encouraged instead of seeing that as an expense-of-other-students waste of teacher time. It's only natural that some kids will be more active information sponges than others. To treat an interested and intelligent kid in the same manner as a uninterested and lacking in social and intellectual intelligence isn't necessarily a good thing.
I can't say that I'd be happy with longer school hours at all, being a kid... Although in the UK we have a lost generation, birthed from 15 year old slags who have no idea where their children are at any given time, most likely scratching up some guys car and then kicking him to death with all of his other dickhead friends. So we are in a tough social situation, we have a generation of parents unable to look after their children. A rather callous but potentially great way to deal with this might go something along the lines of: "Does your family earn less than X" or "is your family on X benefits" then your children stay at school and provide cheap labour 8) to pay off their parents sponging. As unfortunately it is mostly true that antisocial fucktards come from poor dole scrounging families. And us nice middle class kids can can go home at a normal time and play frisbee in the park.
I think more time and school would exponentially decrease my good behaviour though.
DarkJedi - that's just for unenlightened races like Iran :)
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