Toyohiko
4. Kids are leaving sohcol before they are finished because they are uninspired. I believe just walking into our ancient high sohcol is a huge problem. I don't feel good when I walk in there. The fact that the adults in this community can't come together to give these kids a beautiful, interesting, interactive, state of the art sohcol to learn and feel important is part of the problem. The poverty rate here is another factor-you follow by example. Parents who dropped out or just didn't try or finish college taking jobs at minimum wage don't inspire kids. And you have parents who don't seem to want or know they should be involved in every moment of their child's education. Kids start failing and don't know how to fix it. You have parents who won't even go on classroll, but complain they didn't know their kid was struggling-they don't even know what classes or who their teachers are. Learning the way we did 20-30 years ago won't work now. Your blogs on using technology give me hope that someone will pick up your ideas and go for it. You have to grab kids and use what they love or enjoy. Unfortunately, if you can't inspire teachers enough to pick up new ways and ideas then maybe there is no solution. I guess there is a fear factor there. The problem is huge and I don't think my kids will see the change in PHS, but I hope in the not too far off future kids will see a change and feel inspired. We have to teach kids not to settle. There's a saying and it's something about if you settle for what you have then you deserve what you get. We-kids and parents and teachers and administrators shouldn't settle for what we have we deserve more than that. It does take a village to raise a child-another saying I think may be appropriate to this topic.
Toyohiko 4. Kids are leaving sohcol before they are finished because they are uninspired. I believe just walking into our ancient high sohcol is a huge problem. I don't feel good when I walk in there. The fact that the adults in this community can't come together to give these kids a beautiful, interesting, interactive, state of the art sohcol to learn and feel important is part of the problem. The poverty rate here is another factor-you follow by example. Parents who dropped out or just didn't try or finish college taking jobs at minimum wage don't inspire kids. And you have parents who don't seem to want or know they should be involved in every moment of their child's education. Kids start failing and don't know how to fix it. You have parents who won't even go on classroll, but complain they didn't know their kid was struggling-they don't even know what classes or who their teachers are. Learning the way we did 20-30 years ago won't work now. Your blogs on using technology give me hope that someone will pick up your ideas and go for it. You have to grab kids and use what they love or enjoy. Unfortunately, if you can't inspire teachers enough to pick up new ways and ideas then maybe there is no solution. I guess there is a fear factor there. The problem is huge and I don't think my kids will see the change in PHS, but I hope in the not too far off future kids will see a change and feel inspired. We have to teach kids not to settle. There's a saying and it's something about if you settle for what you have then you deserve what you get. We-kids and parents and teachers and administrators shouldn't settle for what we have we deserve more than that. It does take a village to raise a child-another saying I think may be appropriate to this topic.