I am saying I support the allowing of I-Pods for all high school students who can MASTER those subjects.
See, at least I am being nice and supporting an incentive.
Master the subjects - then you can sit in Study Hall and even listen to gangsta rap if you want.
Some people are trying to be creative and that's good, but people are leaving with diplomas with the name of our High School on it. If people are leaving without basic writing skills, math skills, and everything that paper says they have mastered, then we have done a disservice.
We can show J-Lo movies and be all artsy and creative, or we can teach the students how to write a damn paragraph and instead of a text message.
The speech classes should drop a letter grade for every time 'like' is used when not using a simile to describe or a verb to favor something.
Stick in the mud maybe, but there are serious weaknesses in written expression, math, and science. If people cannot express themselves in speech and in the written word and cannot manipulate numbers - then there is no place for them in any high paying field.
Yes, one can still be a damn good tradesman, but even then a certain discipline and work ethic should be re-inforced.
I believe that Study Hall should be enforced as a Study period. It's is not lounge hour.
The teachers are there to teach (or should be) and the students are there to learn (or should be there).
Thus the teachers need to act like the adults, and the students need to have respect.
So all of this I-pod stuff is unacceptable. We have no idea what's going through those pods, and some of it could be very dangerous. With podcasts, streams and all sorts of other things, how do we know what's going on.
I want my sales and property taxes to go toward LEARNING and OUR SCHOOLS are not MAKING THE GRADE.
It's time someone stop catering to the pop culture and start teaching.