If Parents Were Required To Come To Class, Behavior Would Get Better - Perdaily.com

If Parents Were Required To Come To Class, Behavior Would Get Better - Perdaily.com

If Parents Were Required To Come To Class, Behavior Would Get Better

by Leonard

One of the unintended negative byproducts of long failed public education is the fact that it is not just the students who are presently in the system that lack the academic background to ultimately become productive members of our society, it is also many of the people who are now trying to deal with the very complex set of problems that is now exacerbated by the worst economic downturn in the United States since the Great Depression of 1929 -- I thought I would give the date, since I have found that most of my students, their parents, and many of my teacher and administrator colleagues have no awareness of this period in recent American history.

It is important to define in very specific terms what is meant by academic background, or what it means to be an educated person. So let me take a crack at some of the factors that are clearly present when a person is educated:

1. An educated person tries in the present to consider what they have experienced and learned in the past in determining with great specificity what they will do in the future.
2. In trying to develop a model of analyzing an issue, they focus more on the ideas that disagree with their own position, since they realize that the more complete their model of analysis is, the higher the probability of their coming up with a viable solution.
3. They realize that all answers are tentative, because the nature of reality is something that is always changing, so that there is no guarantee that what works now will work in the future without continued modification based on