Schools must do a lot better on discipline
http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/opinion/columnists/20040520-120436.shtml
This is an interesting editorial ---- in one school discipline cut the class size by 40% That's almost half the kids!! It's become quite a free-for-all in some schools --- and the taxpayers are just having their money wasted. If kids want a social event then let them quit school and join a club.
Unfortunately, middle school kids can't just "quit school and join a club." They and their parents are there under threat of compulsory education laws. Maybe that's what pisses so many kids and their disinterested parents off. Think about it.
Well, it is changing and perhaps for the better. Public schools that are afraid of losing kids to homeschooling are now offering on-line courses for kids who for one reason or another just don't want to attend the local school and put up with all the nonsense. It's a win-win situation -- kid gets to live the life he wants to live, develops his own interests on his own time (considerably more time than if he attended school for 7 1/2 hours a day) and gets an education, and the school gets a chunk of change for providing the service. Neither has to have much to do with the other if they don't want to.