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Students ned to have knowledge and understanding of subject
material OUTSIDE those fields of study they find interesting.

The outside world will require these young students to do
various amounts or work and tasks that they DONT find
interesting, life is not all about fun.

STANDARDS need to be stronger, we are the ONLY country in
the world that does not have a NATIONAL curriculum and you
dont even want a national standard, your position is basically to
support NON ACCOUNTABILITY. We tried that we ended up with
football players who couldnt read, and nice girls who were great
teachers pets who couldnt do arithmetic.

No they are not all capable of becoming genesis, Intelligence
distribution has CONSTANTLY been shown to fit a normal curve.

On 7/06/14, To AW wrote:
> I am pushing the fact that the main curriculum of schools
> should be a model that allows for a personalized
> curriculum. Personalization should not be just through
> "electives", it should the core of the curriculum.
>
> Anybody, not just kids, will put forth an extreme amount
> of effort to learn things that interest them, and appeal
> to them. It needs to be incorporated in every student's
> learning.
>
> Students associate learning with boring things at school.
> This only creates kids that are disinterested in doing
> anything to learn, or anything to do with school. Instead
> of creating students with this attitude, we need to create
> students who are intrigued in learning, and want to be
> better themselves.
>
> Also, the standardization needs to abolished. We can not
> rank kids based on a set of values that we think are
> important. Not all kids are going to be successful at
> those values, and the ranking system only tells them that
> they aren't good enough to be anything. They're humans.
> Humans that have different interests, different talents,
> different tastes, and different things they are capable of
> excelling at. Why are we not embracing these differences?
> We don't encourage students to do what they're good at,
> but instead we rank them on what they might not be good
> at. Then that ranking effects their future by inhibiting
> them from a good college, as well as psychologically
> because they feel they aren't capable of doing anything
> great.
>
> Students are not born smart (maybe some), like the ranking
> system (GPA/Grades) suggests. They are ALL capable of
> becoming geniuses at ANYTHING they please, but when you
> tell a student his GPA is bad & compare him to someone
> else who is way better, they feel worthless. When really,
> that might not even be what interests him, nor where his
> talent shines!
>
>
> On 7/04/14, AW wrote:
>> Hunter, I can't justify common core as "we" in Texas
>> don't use it. Psyguy is a proponent of common core so he
>> would have to enlighten you with CC's program is so
>> beneficial.
>>
>> I was replying to your "solutions." Most of your comments
>> are "general" and various comments may apply to some
>> schools,
> but
>> I would guess that could be applied to any state or
>> country. None of your comments apply to my school.
>>
>> So I have to ask....what program are you pushing?

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