Friday, February 23, 2007

Controversial Issue- How to change economic status in schools

George Will said describes how we can, as teachers, schools, and society change economic status to level it out by 1) graduating students from high school 2) encouraging students to wait until after high school to be parents 3) wait until after high school to get married. I agree with all three of these point but I do believe they can be expanded on a little more. For instance, how would we graduate more students? Would we lower the standards? Would we make dropping out illegal? Questions like these should be addressed.
In order to get more students to graduate, I believe we should make dropping out of school less of an option for students. Our schools systems should incorporate more classes geared toward student interests, but still keep the general programs such as the arts, math, science, social studies etc. Lower income schools should recieve quality teachers. Currently, schools that pay more money (incentives) such as suburbian schools recieve the most qualifed teachers and lower income schools cannot afford such talent. The government should make it a point to level this gap out. I believe George Will provides us with a 3 great point on how we can level the economic status in our schools, but now it is our turn as a society to expand more on these ideas and put them into practice.

1 comment:

Associate Professor of Education, Luther College said...

Do many of the problems in education come down to matters of money? The programs you mention are excellent ideas but they are expensive. How do we generate the money to make your ideas reality.

Also, did you begin a flickr account to store some pictures? If you have be sure to link it to your blog.

Thanks for your effort on this entry.

Dr. Langholz