Wednesday, March 14, 2012
School Proposal
Recently, there have been letters written by two New Haven school teachers that would like to see changes made in the classroom. They proposed that schools should increase the "rigror" in classrooms, increase seating time, and also legnthen the school day and year. In my opinion, these proposals have have good intentions but I do not think they would actually be passed, since so many people would probably fight against it. When people, like the actual students for example, hear that the government and teachers want to make changes like legnthening the time of the school day and also "rigoring" the time in classrooms, it would only be undertandable as to why they would want to retailate against it (no student actually wants to have more class time and later school days.) Also, I think that taking away free time from students is not a fair thing in the slightest way. If they did insert more time into school days, and made students stay for a longer time in school, it would unmotivate them to do well in school even more because they would be too tired to even want to do anything. I am aware that education in the United States is not as affective as it used to be, but there could be other ways to motivate students to do better rather than taking away vacations and free time. I think that if they do carry out these laws, however, eventually they would maybe work out on the classrooms.
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First, as the administrator of this blog I would like to thank you for your comment.
ReplyDeleteNext, the teachers are not making these proposals; the proposals are part of a Governor supported education reform bill that may become state law. If this is the case both the school day and school year may be lenghthened. I, personally, am not encouraging you to support or object to these changes in your education, but I am rather asking you if you think these measures will be effective in improving the quality of your education? And why or why not you feel the way you do?
For example, you may think that a longer school day might benefit you personally but may negatively impact some of your class mates etc.
As a parting thought I am confused by your use of the term "rigoring." When one speaks of increased "rigor" the word is generally used as a noun or an adjective to describe work that requires effort. "Rigoring" somehow implies that it is a verb describing an action.