You know a collegue of mine and I were just having that same discsussion. I think as a society we need to find a better way to value different traits rather than try to force everyone into one mold. The president sid he wanted more kids going to college and I disagree. I deal with college students every day and many of them simply don't belong there. It's not going to help them be happy or productive or wealthy. We need to figure out how to get kids the right education for what they are capable of.
Case and point: My colleague has a relative, whos mother is a real dead-beat. She has barely provided for her children's necessitites regardless trying to provide any guideance, education, values or anything for her kids. She doesn't care about education,, so her kids go to school becase they have to. And guess what, they're failing. Horribly. Those kids probably shouldn't be in a traditional school. They probably need to find there way into some kind of training so they can maybe do something they like to do and can do well that would benefit society. Right now, they are headed for a life of crime, becaus nobody has pointed them in the right direction to try to do anything better. It's sad. Now, that whole notion of providing different education for different kids smacks of some kind of socio-economic "Separate but equal." How would we make those decisions of who get's what and when. What do you do with the kid who feels they were diened one opportunity becasue they were sent down a different educational path. Kids learn differently at different times, from different people. Could we really provide this well on an institutional basis?
Maybe our governmental resources should be put toward helping parents assess and make the proper decisions for their kids.
I hate how she treated him/the other students. Billy hasn't really talked about her anymore but he does seem a little happier about going to her class.
