Education Today

We need to rethink our education, the system, the school days, the purpose, and redefine free speech.
When children are led to commit suicide because of bullying, by internet, by encounters, should we allow free speech to continue without some boundaries?

When a soldier comes home in a casket to a grieving family, is it necessary for free speech lovers to dishonor him and his family?  Free speech, should not damage someone's soul!  Should we allow free speech to take away the dignity of a dead person?   What can we do to protect free speech, but remove the horrible manner in which it is displayed?
 

Is our school system producing problems , by integration of all students, rather than the tracking system we had years ago?  Personally, I think we should be giving more guidance to fit the student, rather than the opposite..  If we do our job, they will fit in society.  It is when we do not do our job, that they fall out of society and get in trouble.  Students that drop out, that do not get good marks, etc., are not happy!  So that means we need to change to make them want to go to school.  That is the job we have before us, make everyone want to learn to become a productive member of society and as long as we ignore the unhappy students, we will have serious problems in society.

  Our society is in need of talented trades, and we could be giving a more practical education from day one to the students who we know, will not have the ability to keep up for higher education, or who do not have the inclination.   Banking should come back in the schools, with the students running the banks.  Home economics should come back to the elementary school, baking, sewing, organizing, learning about health and health check ups, all the basics of everyday living in our present society we need to have to prepare the student for life, so if they drop out, or can not compete they can take care of their family with home, and car skills, health skills, banking skills, budgets, etc.

Students with ADD and ADHD  need a different classroom situation, maybe they need to have assisted homework with teachers who train them to focus on their studies,  Homework must be part of the classroom teaching, learning, etc... maybe they need less homework and more class participation marks.  Drugs are not always the answer,maybe more observation by teachers and what we can do in the school to teach focusing and teach how to overcome disabilities.

Tracking would be a valuable tool, to assist the student to reach his potential in a group that has similar abilities and skills.  Everyone is not equal, we all have different abilities.  You can probably answer I knew I would never be a whiz at math, in the lower grades, or I knew I would never be a reader, in the lower grades.   Essential abilities in the brain, need to be addressed, not neglected, if a person is weak in math, then that person needs to learn basic math, banking, budgeting, organizing skills, and skills that increase the ability of that side of the brain that has a problem with math by training with musical instruments.  Learning spacing of notes, groupings, etc., through music,  There are so many things to consider, I could go on forever