How can we expect high school graduates to compete in the highly competitive 21st century job market when our education system is stuck in a pre-computer age paradigm?
Millions of school children grow up in dysfunctional households. Many go to school hungry: Many are homeless. If we expect to teach these children, we need to reach out to them on their terms, with subject matter that interests them.
Clearly, forcing them to learn spelling, vocabulary, and reading based on subject matter that they are not interested in has been a failure. But why isn't this clear to our education system? They seem paralyzed to react.
One definition of insanity is repeating the same mistake over and over, but expecting a different outcome. Today, we are seeing the effects of several generations of children who have graduated from high school, even though they cannot read nor write. Instead of receiving a diploma, they receive a "Certificates of Attendance". Just how is that supposed to help them get job?
In Florida, school grades 3-11 will be faced with the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, known as the FCATs. Note the word 'comprehensive'.
Can someone please explain to me how these students are supposed to test well when they cannot read, and as a result lack the deductive reasoning skills needed to understand test questions in the first place?
At some point these young people enter the work force totally unprepared. Sadly, many cannot even fill out a job application. What are their options?
While it easy to fault the Education System for their decades of failure to comprehend ''Deductive Reasoning", it is we who have given them a 'pass'.
Parents, teachers, educators, politicians, and job creators, if you want the education system to change, you need to unite, and demand alternatives.
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