Blame Game in Educational Disparities

Schools, Teaching, and Learning; Not Good for Everyone Never let going to school and taking classes get in the way of learning. There is more than enough blame to go around regarding the education and preparation for the recent generations of students entering adulthood. Some people, like Michael Moore blame politics on the poor state of education, others like Davis Guggenheim, blame the powerful teachers union putting their own needs before the students. I place the blame squarely at the feet of the parents, students and over all society for the current state of education.

If a parent really wants a child to know something they will find a way to teach it to the child. Literally hundreds of things are taught to children before they ever get

In the essay Idiot nation, Mr. Moore uses humor anecdotes and some solid numbers as to how governments spending is not adequate for schools in these modern times, he contrasts that amount to the billions spent on the military, jails, and other programs that would better be spent as the schools. And how schools are being incentivized by corporations such as soft drink manufacturers putting the donations and sponsorship above the health of the students. Mr. Guggenheim has us follow several students in their quest to leave the tainted teacher’s union schools for the private or charter schools that are unencumbered by teachers with tenure, and with the ability to pay more to the better teaches for the above par performance, and that have a vested interest in the students succeeding and going on to

As a student growing up in a time before the internet I would spend hours at the local library reading and learning things that were not only outside of the curriculum for my school but subjects that would not be offered for my grade or until the later years in college, these would include Greek, Latin, Electronics, Physics, Body Language, and many other subjects. As a parent when my son was in kindergarten I learned that they punish the fidgety students by not letting them play at recess, and then they wondered why they were all fidgety during class. I was pretty sure I could provide a better environment than that. That environment would be customized and changed as needed to fit the student and not that other way around. As he grew and learned he studied an array subjects, and almost automatically figured out the basics, socialized with many other children doing the same type of thing. He is now enrolled in college going through and getting general education subjects done and then go to a local university. As a mentor and someone that has worked in different schools I have taught classes and became involved with many after school programs and community interests groups to help the schools and the students get the most out of the resources that were available to