Originally Posted by Patti Mahoney
What is this world coming to? I'm convinced that, "ONE DAY", all of this so called 'modern technology' is going to just blow up and the whole world is going to go completely crazy. Pretty soon, your kids won't ever need to take a pencil and paper to school, everything will be done on the computer......so sad! ! !
There are schools now that start kindergarden kids with computers. I saw a news report last week I think it was and I forget which state it was but they now start kindergarden kids with computers but what I saw of it was not necessarily taking away the way to learn. That states school system has 45% of its 4th graders that fail so they started this test program that for the next 4 years all kindergarden kids will have a computer ... actually it was not a computer but an iPad to teach them the basics of reading and numbers. They have tested a group that did it and have jumped two grade levels to be on track when they get to 4th grade.
Seems basics a child needs to learn to carry him/her through are learned from kindergarden to 3rd grade and after that they should be able to do anything if thought what they need.
I see the problem as being way to many students in a class. My 4th grade GD has 33 students in her class this year from 22 last year in 3rd grade. My 7 year old GD who is suppose to be in 2nd grade but in first if they did not move her to a special class of now 10 kids to learn would be left behind in the class of 25 plus for 1st graders. Now she has a chance to learn and hopefully make it to 2nd grade next year.
I blame her parents though for her failing kindergarden and doing it twice. They don't work with the child to learn what she needs and also she was not allowed to go to daycare or pre-k and if her mother had her way she would not have gone to kindergarden. I had to fight for her to go to kindergarden two years ago. Mother's attitude was in the state of GA a child is not required to be in school until age of 6 which I did not know and she was keeping girl home because she wanted someone home with her yet she was teaching her nothing.
Now I have taken control of childs education and put both my son and that girls mother on alert not to screw with her education or they will have to answer to me. I AM MAKING them bring the girl to me 3 days a week for tutoring so she can learn to read and she is already improving.
So guess it's not all schools failing with over crowding when kids have parent from generation X who think the world owes them something and they leave there kids behind and not tending to them.