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OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEMS
Sep 19, 2007 | 5:21 AM PST
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Before I get started on my rant I would like to say that I am not including mentally or physically handicapped children. Or children who were seriously ill or injured during school. I am talking about the average child who goes to school for 13 years to ultimately receive a diploma. In recent years I have been doing some digging in to school policies and proceedures concerning graduation. I must say that I have never been so disgusted with the school and the parents in my life! Is anyone familiar with programs such as Taps and Life Skills? These programs are set up for children who go thru school each year that fail. These failing children are put into these programs to achieve a diploma. High schools do not hold a failing child back. They pass them on to the next grade every year. Then in the 11th or beginning of 12th grade they are placed in these programs. In some cases the child can do a hour up to three hours of work a day to make up years worth of failed work plus pass the year they are in! Not to mention they receive schood credits for working! Um our country already has an abundance of pizza makers and McDonalds employees!!!!!!! In the life skills program these children are sent to (in my school district it's Akron) one day a week to learn how to take care of themselves. Things such as house work, laundry, shopping, etc. Isn't this the parents job? Not to mention these children also earn school credits for working!!!!!!!!!! What a slap in the face to the children that work hard for there diplomas. The schools and parents should be embarrassed, but nope they are not. All they care about is the government funding if it's the school, and the empty diploma if it's the parent. Another prime example of the dumbing down of America!
