- 22 Aug 2003 03:27
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Nonetheless I see this as beatable. Just as anything is. Other possibilites might be to bring in more relevant experts in any given subject that kids can respect more then their teachers, such as business leaders or scientists. (Of course that costs more money...so that opens another can of worms, but how many sports figures visit their old alma mattars for inspiration?) I dunno exactly...I'm certainly up for suggestions...
Something like this certainly seems feasible but remember you can't make colleges do this. They are businesses like anything else (like it or not) and are not simply going to offer things to sophmoores just to inspire them...However if we're into encouragement, then certainly setting up classrooms to handle really advanced students who are capable of college level material at earlier ages certainly might make some difference. I agree to a point that a piece of paper isn't much but I don't want to get too far from the realm of personal responsibility either.
As Izzy stated earlier a good degree of this relates back to teaching more discipline, personal responsibility, and accountability. The other stuff would theoretically just be bonuses or incentives for being "the best of the best".
"When do you ask yourself, 'Maybe everyone else isn't wrong for using the definitions of words; maybe I'm wrong for making up new definitions of words and then using them as crude slurs' -TiG
CoS = Culture of StupidityDuh...Damn! I was hoping I'd gotcha back...
Do you have any specific ideas on how to reward academic achievement in ways that kids won't reject?Well a start would simply be rewarding academics like sports are now rewarded. Some of you have very good points in that a good deal of this proposed change would have to be instilled by parents, who aren't all that willing to do much as it is...so that is an obstacle.
Nonetheless I see this as beatable. Just as anything is. Other possibilites might be to bring in more relevant experts in any given subject that kids can respect more then their teachers, such as business leaders or scientists. (Of course that costs more money...so that opens another can of worms, but how many sports figures visit their old alma mattars for inspiration?) I dunno exactly...I'm certainly up for suggestions...
Well, the worst thing you could do, would be to encourage a scholarship system- since by the time scholarships are being handed out (senoir years), most kids have accepted that they are always going to have low grades, so why try? What should be done instead is to create a total achievment type goal (as in, by doing well you get more then on the honor roll. And by doing realy well, you open yourself up to scholarships and the like). The point is, right now, by doing 'well' in school the rewards are having your name on a piece of paper (big deal).
Something like this certainly seems feasible but remember you can't make colleges do this. They are businesses like anything else (like it or not) and are not simply going to offer things to sophmoores just to inspire them...However if we're into encouragement, then certainly setting up classrooms to handle really advanced students who are capable of college level material at earlier ages certainly might make some difference. I agree to a point that a piece of paper isn't much but I don't want to get too far from the realm of personal responsibility either.
As Izzy stated earlier a good degree of this relates back to teaching more discipline, personal responsibility, and accountability. The other stuff would theoretically just be bonuses or incentives for being "the best of the best".
"When do you ask yourself, 'Maybe everyone else isn't wrong for using the definitions of words; maybe I'm wrong for making up new definitions of words and then using them as crude slurs' -TiG