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One size doesn't fit all..

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  • One size doesn't fit all..

    Started by Melissa Baker St John

    Kids don’t learn the same especially ones who are neglected in their homes. If you’ve ever read about Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs theory, it would explain why the very poor do not score well in school which only perpetuates welfare and violent neighborhoods, like inner city Houston. Maslow’s theory basically states, a person can’t advance in life, learn, when basic needs aren’t met. Giving teachers pay increases for a student’s performance is wrong because these challenges exist for many poor children that are too focused on their own next meal and will they live through the night with drive by shootings to learn about what went on during the Civil War.
    The answer, tell the Feds to shove their proven failed standard testing and take the billions that are spent by school district’s (tax payers), and put those $s towards a creating individual teaching plans for the poor as is done for special needs. Have several curriculum for various kids learning style. The smartest generations spent years on fundamentals. None of this introducing Algebra in 4th grade just to keep up with China, that has only proven to make more drop outs than the old way of learning through acing fundamentals, especially math. Some kids aren’t college bound, have curriculum that works for them from Kindergarten. If they improve have levels to move them up towards academics. If not, offer, in every district, even the poor ones, skilled labor that when they graduate, they can make a living wage.
    Stop keeping up with the Jones in our kids educations. My very smart math and science high school freshman daughter struggled in freshman science because instead of teaching what DNA is they want them to use critical thinking and find what the parents DNA of a pink pig would be. Seriously! That is college level A&P I for pre-med students I took my freshman year in college!! If my 100+ average math and science daughter struggled with it, can you imagine how many high school drop outs you are creating for kids that are below average in math and science! ? You don’t have to imagine-just look up the ridiculous number of drop outs in Texas!

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