WAR and Money

[steampick]

How is the curriculum relevant to the 75% that will not end up being college graduates?

In Canadian schools, after Gr. 8, they stream kids according to their likely destination, so somebody going to University will take the University stream. Somebody going to a Community College will take the college level. Somebody going to niether will take what is (for now) called the Workskills stream. There is also co-operative education opportunities for Gr. 10s now (used to be just senior students).

 

[kmcrab]

Interesting...What happens if a student changes after they have been streamed into a certain catagory? Example: an 8th grader that is not studious and is flagged for workskills, becomes very interested/successful in academics...Can they be reassigned?

 

[a_smerek]

In Canada every student has fair game to any course. Even a high school dropout can earn their way into college or university through a bit of hard work. That said, most don't bother.

An injured worker or manual laborer who is unemployed will get paid to go back to school for re-education, and in most cases have their living expenses paid too.

Those high tax dollars go somewhere

My main focus with my daughter will be to make up the slack in the school system, and give her the home education supplementary to what is taught in school

I wont buy her an xbox or a cel phone, until she earns the rights to them

I don't have either and live a good life

I really believe each parent needs to take a child by child basis and tailor a plan around all the factors

That said, not all things are equal, and some people will do better than others

I will be happy if she tries and works hard, regardless of achievement

I firmly believe a parent who relies on the school system, or any system, is taking a big leap of faith in those systems

A lot of parents don't pro actively work with their children as much as they can

 

[steampick]

Yeah, that's true, especially after Gr. 8, where the student starts to want independence, so they intentionally break from their parents, whose relationship with them is considered by the teen to be too smothering (and when one considers that for most of that child's life up until that point the parent treated them, necessarily, like babies, then yeah, maybe a break from that relationship is healthy).

But anybody who thinks that one person can teach 30 as effectively as the parent could teach the child one-on-one is just using the school system as a dumping grounds/daycare centre for their kids. Schools are supposed to aide a child's intellectual development, not be the sole providers of it.

Oh yeah, at any time in the highschool system a student can switch to any other academic stream, usually with the recommendation of a teacher and parent.

 

[kmcrab]

at any time in the highschool system a student can switch to any other academic stream, usually with the recommendation of a teacher and parent.

Thanks...I just wondered how that worked...I know when I was in 8th grade...I was alot different than 10th grade...I would hate to think that my 14 year old, 8th grade thoughts/actions would be set in stone to determine the course of my life!:13: