What should children learn as they head back to school?
The start of the school year is filled with promise but I have serious concerns about the American education system. First, kids have much better resources than we had but we had home training, which was actually home, church, and community training. It was important that we knew when to sit down, be quiet and focus. From 150 T.V. channels to Xbox, today’s kids like flashy and that makes good old fashion teaching boring.
Newsflash: much of life in the real world is boring and making yourself do what you don’t want to do is an important part of growth and development. Children should arrive at the logical conclusion that they will be in school anyway so why not gain knowledge that will make their futures better. Every subject from my school years has come up in life at some point and in some way. When Black kids study American history, they should develop an understanding about the past and their obligations to strive into the future. The revolving door on American prisons indicates that should young people don’t value the freedom many fought to obtain.
High school economics is a needed subject in my opinion because kids need to know about conspicuous consumption, cost-benefit analysis, risk/reward and delayed gratification. Even people who make 60K plus working in industry without college degrees should know that material things aren’t that important and everyone shouldn’t know what you have. We should hope that kids learn to be balanced, law-abiding, happy citizens. They should also learn that it’s not the government’s job to take care of you; the government doesn’t love you like that.
Teachers enter the profession fully prepare to perform but the half-raised part of the student body will ruin the learning process for all involved. A stress-out teacher’s thoughts turn to mortgage and SUV payments—so they take it. As the Negro hymn goes, “before I be a slave..I will be buried in my grave.” I would sooner stave that allow a student to disrupt school while disrespecting me. To be honest, the wrong folks are having too many kids at the wrong time and they would be the first to tell you that—ten years later.
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I liked your thoughts here. You touched on many of the keys to success. Our youth must learn to appreciate the mundane and be disciplined and open-minded to learning. Of course, I’m biased, so I also agree that economics is important to learn regardless of discipline. Particularly, there needs to be an added emphasis on financial literacy and less emphasis on the humanities. Of course, humanities are important and we should definitely know how to read, write, and understand our history. However, life is full of tradeoffs, so it is impossible to add something to the curriculum without taking out something else out. However when it comes to the core curriculum, everyone needs to have an understanding of money because it impacts the lives of everyone.