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Keep the grades, but build on each student’s strengths? We waste a lot of time during middle school and high school grooming them for liberal arts prep. Inste
by nobodyandproud 3y ago
Keep the grades, but build on each student’s strengths?
We waste a lot of time during middle school and high school grooming them for liberal arts prep.
Instead, high school is when kids should be allowed to narrow down, cultivate, and build their foundational skills of interest.
Sports? Technical? Arts? Then in the final years allow them to branch if they wish but also to demonstrate and show how much they don’t know.
Instead, every high school has turned into liberal arts college prep; then we do it again for bachelors.
Waste of time classes for me: Spanish 2/3, English and composition, general sciences (the broad one that covers all sciences in one course)
- fauxpause_ 3y agoImagine wasting time in school teaching things like geometry, history, and science; when the student wants to be playing basketball
- nobodyandproud 3y agoI don’t know whether this is sarcasm, but for a basketball player a broad general sciences is probably enough. Why foist a year of biology when they have no interest and aptitude for it?
- cdkmoose 3y agoGiven the ridiculously small percentage of student basketball players who will ever be paid to play basketball, it would be good idea to study more than that
- fauxpause_ 3y agoBecause the basic foundational knowledge of biology is useful to understanding the world you exist in.
- dotnet00 3y agoHigh schoolers seldom know what they want for their future and skipping out on general education is just setting them up for failure when whatever they did try to specialize in, does not work out.