Okay, if you're reading this, please take the time and read the past two posts, because they're new as well- Thanks.
Topic! : Bad Penmanship.
Oh lord. Don't get me started. People in France [so I've heard] [and I'm sure in other places I just don't know about] start their kids at a young age writing on graph paper to keep their penmanship straight and pretty. Why don't we do that?
Second Topic! : Lenient Schools Versus Strict Schools [subtopic: uniforms versus no uniforms]
Public schools in the US a lot of times are consisted of students who don't care about their work, who don't have great ambitions, and who are really disrespectful to their peers and their teachers. Why is that? Is it because of their living conditions, or just their personality? Is it the teachers? Is it the structure of the school? The teaching methods? What do you think and do you think we should be more strict on our students in the US? Or should we let them be expressive like some other people say?
Uniforms? Personally I thin kit's a great idea. And I'm a student, so you can't really say, "But you only think that because you're a parent." Uniforms help decrease the distraction in school. When you're in school, it's not supposed to be a fashion show, or a place to display status. It's where everyone is equal and all learning. I don't think make-up, accessories, and expensive clothing should be necessary in learning, unless you want to learn about life in general and how there are levels in society, or if you're in a fashion class. Back then, they didn't have all this frou frou stuff to show off, and they still lived quite well.
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Some of us do that. Its called the Catholic Private schools <_<;; No, really. They have handwriting classes there up through 5th grade I think, in order to make sure everyone can read their spiffyrific handwriting. Plus, at my school, we did that to an extent when we were learning to write. We would have lined paper on which we were to make uniformly sized and shaped letters. Then again, though, there was still quite a bit of leniency.
Lets deal with your first question here before I even read the second. Alright. People who dont care about school dont care about school for a number of reasons. The biggest being their personality of apathy. In my experience, the people who dont care about school also are the drinkers, partiers (sp?), and also the people who somehow randomly pull off a decent GPA. The structure of not necessarily the school itself, but the school system, the hierarchy of principals, teachers, etc, doesnt lend toward student focus or respect. It depends, really, I suppose, quite a bit, on the teaching methods as well. There are some teachers at my school who have the worst possible teaching methods, yet are some of the most respected. I think it has more to do with the student/teacher connection and how their personalities match/clash. And we should most definitely be a little more strict on the students. School is a place for learning. As it is right now, the majority of people will go on to do nothing. Then again, the capitalist USA does need those people who do nothing...so maybe it isnt such a bad thing after all?
I agree. Uniforms are a perfectly understandable idea. However, with US public schools, it will never happen. This is due to the "infringement of our rights to express ourselves as expressed in the first amendment." Well, children, that doesnt actually exist. And moreover, schools are federal properties, which means the government can impose any rule not specifically violating the constitution that it darn well pleases to do. So. While I am for it, the majority (99% majority here) is against it, and with those kinds of numbers (and the parents to back up those kinds of numbers) the government will be unable to do anything about it legislature-wise. Needless to say there would need to be funding for these uniforms, which, haha, as of right now the US is...a few trillion bucks away from.
Ok...I know some people from France and they all have bad handwriting. Either they force them to write well so much when they're young so they "rebel" when they grow up or this whole thing is just a myth...? maybe not a myth, but not a very effective practice. People who don't care about penmenship will not care no matter what you do. Some people are busy. That's why they say that a lot of doctors who start out having good handwriting end up writing prescriptions like chicken scratch...they simply don't have the time to save a life. how you like them apples? actually, it probably has to do with the culture too...caligraphy isn't a huge thing here, I don't think.
now...your questions about the schools. It's like asking why is the government bad. you know, people write books on these topics. it's way too broad for a blog topic. well, but just for the heck of it, I'll tell you that it's just the way it is. Unless you get some hitler-like guy to do something really crazy to enforce this ideal of having education as one of the country's top priority, it's probably not going to get that much better anytime soon. Even if you have uniforms, people will still find ways to stand out or show off. Even if you provide all the clothing/shoes/etc, some of the kids are still going to come to school with the shiniest hair because her parents take her to the salon to nurish and treat her hair with hot oil, and she's gonna be the most popular, stuck up girl in school. what ju gonna do bout that? you can't say that they can't have healthy-looking, shiny hair. gIrL! don't get me started on this again.... -yo sista ;)
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