Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Education reform

Students ought to be grouped by common attributes in the subjects of their studies respectively. Age-based grade levels make sense for physical activities like PE, literature, art, and recreation/play. Intellectual-based grade levels make sense for intellectual subjects like math and language, while IQ-based grade levels follow subjects which develop problem solving and learning, such as science and engineering; both of which are typically introduced far too late in the children's lives to allow even modest development. No subject should immediately follow another of the same genre, and no teacher should be allowed to test or discipline the same students which they teach. Furthermore, testing, accounting, and discipline are so different from teaching that they disrupt it greatly, and therefore logically belong to a class of teachers which I will call Class Administrators, who know the students by name and also serve as their advocate with each teacher. Then arises the need for practical development of their skills; separate from academia and married with industry.

And then there is the question of why we don't have school choice already!

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