Friday, January 07, 2011

We Must Do Better

I have recently read the December 2010 issue of "Georgia Trend" magazine.  This issue contained an enlighting article entitled "Georgia's Charter Schools."

The article written by Krista Reese provides a wonderful and informative insight to the development of the Charter School concept in Georgia, U. S. A.  One of the advantages of a Charter School is that they have greater flexibility to meet the needs of students. 

From my own point of view I feel that it is a tragic fact that our regular Public Schools do not now have the flexibility to meet the needs of students.  As you may surmise, I think that National and even State mandates and/or control at the current level of the local Public Schools is not desired.  That stated, the current systems in many states are funded by State Governments and to some degree the National Government which is an unfortunate situation.  With local control the citizens of a local system/county could educate their future citizens to meet the needs of the Scholars. 

Now, before anyone proceeds off of the deep end, I would also suggest that graduation test be administered at the end of the eighth grade and also at the end of the twelfth grade to insure that the Scholars were ready for the awarding of diplomas. 

Should anyone desire to learn more about this scheme please leave a comment here.  I can quickly provide you with questions that my own Father had to answer in order to graduate from the Eighth Grade way back in the 1930s.  Most of the questions he had to answer way back then would overwhelm a High School Scholar today.

Therefore I would suggest that Public Education in our Country has not really made much progress in the last 80 years. 

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