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So you don't start in noon or afternoon. It makes much more sense to start early and end in the afternoon. Plus, you get room to fit in extra-curricular activities and school-wide events.
Have smaller school days.
you can be trained to accept longer time periods.
Exactly my point. I dont like this.
you cannot learn by yourself, because it's obvious you can't and especially won't
This is simply not true. Children thrive on learning. What they hate is being told HOW to learn.
Parents are forced to send kids to school because it is the law. If your population does not have a strong enough graduation rate, the community suffers.
The law is not the be all and end all of living life. Its meant to be there for a purpose. And who suffers? You mean all the shelf stacker's with degree's?
Your laws are in the school's handbook? The Constitution? The Miranda Rights?
No they are not. The constitution is not covering the wide spectrum of rights you have in the USA and not only that, but from where Im sitting on the other side of the Atlantic, the constitution gets bypassed whenever someone in power pushes hard enough. Then people have to push back. And regardless of the constitution, which is a totally meaningless charade now, in the UK there is no classes within the schools teaching you what to say or not to say when a policeman approaches you. Why not?
Some schools still enforce active prayer before class starts, while being forced to do the Pledge of Allegiance.
But this is no different from forcing you to stick to a particular routine and threatening you with the law.
Some schools may, but it didn't fly with the administration at my school. My school enforced the health policy in which no snacks or soft drinks could be sold until after school hours and no fatty, oily, starchy foods could be sold at the lunch line. If schools advertise these corporations and said products, then they are encouraging multiple branches of consequences to the students.
This needs to happen more often and the schools should be getting government backing. More often that not they have healthy opposition within government and these companies have the money to lobby for the right to advertise etc.
the fact that in school they teach you stuff that you don't need to know depending on what occupation you want they should let you choose and change depending on what you wanna be
I took that to mean, if I wanted to be a carpenter one day and a musician the next, the school would give me a chance to try different walks of life. I like this idea.
To my mind, the North American system is geared toward solely business, math and science.
Every single school system in the world is geared towards math, business and science. How many African students do you know who have come to UK or USA after studying art?!? Its ALWAYS business or science etc...
In fact, the cuts to schools in the UK have focused on the "less important" subjects such as music and art.
You might want to get in the habit of monitoring your language then, because if you did that at a job (except perhaps the construction industries) you'd get fired for that type of behavior.
Which is the exact kind of behaviour the school is trying to "learn" out of you. So you can be a drone and do your work without kicking up a fuss and if you feel like you wanna.... uh uh... fired! Sit down and shut up or we will fire you! Great I can see how I should just agree with you there.
I dunno. We had a similar policy in school where such dress behavior wasn't tolerated; we would send them a belt or freshly-clean pairs of jeans and shirts. Repeat offenders probably got in trouble, but hey, at least this is meaningful! Dressing as either of them or *gasp* both is just disgusting! It may be obscene in some state or local governments!
And how is it meaningful? You mean so they can dress clean so as not to upset anyone else?!?
I think some of you are missing the point entirely here. In fact, you are reinforcing the point by saying "conform" whilst arguing that the school is doing the right thing!
"Be thankful we arent dying, sit down and shut up!" "be thankful you have food, shut up and eat this crap" "be thankful you have education, shut up and listen!"
I know not all schools are the same and if you go into a rich area you suddenly see an increase in the levels of intelligence and grades. I doubt very much its because rich people are smarter.
And the guy in the article didnt say smart people dont come out of schools. He said smart people can come without schools AS WELL.
