WFFaithful
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Lets hear them.
And instead of reiterating ideology and using anecdotes about personal your interactions with the poors, pragmatic examples and studies that support your solutions would be really great.
legalize marijuana, lower beer/wine drinking age back to 18
Love it. The key would be to not lower standards. The problem with public schools is that they pass everyone. Give the free Juco education but if they aren't cutting it them flunk them out. Give them the opportunity to earn it...if they don't the degree won't be worth the cost of the paper it's printed on.
Agree with this. End social promotion in K-12. If you don't learn a reasonable percentage of the material in a core area you don't move on. Ideally this is a course by course decision. If we fix this everything else gets easier to solve.
You've got to add lots of personnel to help struggling students. Otherwise, you'll end up with an 18 year old in third grade.
Yep. Older kids in lower grades doesn't help anybody especially not the kid.
Nobody wants 7th and 8th graders who drive to school.
Promoting a child who isn't ready just passes the problem on to the teacher at the next grade level, who then has less time to spend on the more qualified kids.
It's a shitty problem.