11-04-2002, 11:29 AM
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
You gotta be kidding me, MagiK. Swiss kids grow up TRI-lingual. Are they smarter? It's not like they give up math and science along the way. Foreign language skills should be taught much earlier. And, such skills help with the English language as well. Plus, it gives a real long-term advantage, especially in the job market. Maybe our kids aren't learning English properly, but that doesn't mean we don't teach them other things just because the English is poor.
On a side note, I heard several teachers on the radio this morning call in on a "How has email and chat room language affected your students' homework" question. Very interesting. Teachers are getting this stuff on homework assignments now. ROFLMAO? Gag me, please.
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TL Im not talking about Switzerland, Im talking about the US school systems. Untill they manage to get one language down correctly, I think they should focus a bit, also get rid of a lot of the extraneous classes, get back to Reading, Composition, Math, Science (real sciences not soft fuzzy ones) English/Grammar, History, Geography and Literature. We can get rid of the self esteem classes, the multi-cultural awareness classes and the political indoctrination classes to make us all more accepting of "alternative life styles" those are things that are best left to the families to teach. None of which will actually help the kid get a job. Oh you might also want ot put some Physical Education in there as well.
This is just my opinion and one of the issues that drives my voting selections (remember to vote tomorrow) I don't demand anyone agree with me, Im just trying to take care of MY kids, not yours [img]smile.gif[/img]
I will point out that we teach some of the classes I said we needed to teach, but they have been bastardized into things other than what the name implies. When I say History class, I mean history , not a cultural indoctrination course, where you can participate in other cultures. Our general education schools (k-12) really need to focus on getting our kids to be well equipped to get into the working world, Colleges allow us to expand our horizons and can be used for all the other crap errr stuff that people have an interest in.
[ 11-04-2002, 11:33 AM: Message edited by: MagiK ]
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