We must re-examine our educational systems to allow our children to function in the world today. Our youth has fallen behind the rest of the world educationally and are becoming less and less able to compete in a global market. Perhaps some changes like these might help improve our children’s chances to succeed.
Firstly, we can stop spending outrageous amounts of money on football, basketball, baseball, and all the other “sacred” games that do not directly contribute to a real education. We can still have extra curricular activities, but let’s put them in perspective.
We have heard all the “excuses” about poor and underprivileged kid having sports as “their only way out”, however, this is not really the case.
For every kid that turns pro and gets the dream, there are tens of thousands that do not. Those that don’t are sorely in need of the education that they don’t get. In real benefits, those Dollars could likely be better spent on the books and other educational supplies we keep hearing about being unaffordable.
Sports are (or should be) a extra activity after school only for those with “real” decent grades. Not as a substitute for education just for a winning season. Sports are not religions (or certainly shouldn’t be) and unearned and undeserved diplomas should not be a Holy Grail.
Graduating students who played well but received no real education is doing them a terrible injustice. Denying educational tools to the rest of a student body to fund basically illiterate sports graduates is equally wrong.
We should stop paying teachers substandard salaries and let them teach and not be baby sitters. They are (or should be) one of the most valuable segments of society and should be treated with more respect and dignity.
In societies that have been urban as apposed to agricultural for centuries, schools are in session year round. Children were not needed for planting and harvesting and these have long been the cultural centers of the world. Shouldn’t we be that? The students in these places are measurably more educated and at an earlier age than our children. It’s time we caught up.
It’s appalling that High School and College graduates cannot even make change without a register to figure it for them. That children need a calculator to do basic math is saddening. That they are allowed to do so is even more so.
The more dependant we become on technology, the easier it is for us to be crippled by seemingly minor things.
We definitely need to re-examine our educational systems goals and perspectives . At 40 years of age, an illiterate second string college ball player may have a degree but no real useful skills with which to earn a living. It is Tragic!
That’s My Point of View Today
Firstly, we can stop spending outrageous amounts of money on football, basketball, baseball, and all the other “sacred” games that do not directly contribute to a real education. We can still have extra curricular activities, but let’s put them in perspective.
We have heard all the “excuses” about poor and underprivileged kid having sports as “their only way out”, however, this is not really the case.
For every kid that turns pro and gets the dream, there are tens of thousands that do not. Those that don’t are sorely in need of the education that they don’t get. In real benefits, those Dollars could likely be better spent on the books and other educational supplies we keep hearing about being unaffordable.
Sports are (or should be) a extra activity after school only for those with “real” decent grades. Not as a substitute for education just for a winning season. Sports are not religions (or certainly shouldn’t be) and unearned and undeserved diplomas should not be a Holy Grail.
Graduating students who played well but received no real education is doing them a terrible injustice. Denying educational tools to the rest of a student body to fund basically illiterate sports graduates is equally wrong.
We should stop paying teachers substandard salaries and let them teach and not be baby sitters. They are (or should be) one of the most valuable segments of society and should be treated with more respect and dignity.
In societies that have been urban as apposed to agricultural for centuries, schools are in session year round. Children were not needed for planting and harvesting and these have long been the cultural centers of the world. Shouldn’t we be that? The students in these places are measurably more educated and at an earlier age than our children. It’s time we caught up.
It’s appalling that High School and College graduates cannot even make change without a register to figure it for them. That children need a calculator to do basic math is saddening. That they are allowed to do so is even more so.
The more dependant we become on technology, the easier it is for us to be crippled by seemingly minor things.
We definitely need to re-examine our educational systems goals and perspectives . At 40 years of age, an illiterate second string college ball player may have a degree but no real useful skills with which to earn a living. It is Tragic!
That’s My Point of View Today
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