An article in yesterday’s paper just expand on the absurdity I tried to express in a recent post: (About work dole and breaking the law)
It describes an intention of the government to force people that refuse to stay in school when leaving age is raised to 18 to attend weekend detention.
Has anyone thought what will happen to those who do not appear to the detention? Will we employ the entire police force – too busy to finish their current paperwork – to chase students evading schools? And when they catch them, what then? Will we burden the legal system, or shall we simply extend the anti-terrorist law and allow for detention without a trial? Shall we build special jails for them, or shall we just release before time some more dangerous rapist and murderers to free jail space?
But then there was another interesting fact in yesterday’s paper: on an international scale, in the past five years, British students have plunged down from 4th to 14th place in science, and from 3rd to 19th in Reading Literacy.
So why, at all, do we want to force people to go to school? After all, they don’t seem to learn anything useful there. They might be better off just get a job and learn something useful.
Instead of detention centers, the government may want to think of alternative education. For instance, make educational TV attractive and exciting. Or perhaps create a free educational action arcades.
I’m sure it can’t be that difficult to create some exciting and educational games. For example: a person approaches you in the dark and asks for help (oral comprehension), as soon as you recognize he made a grammatical mistake you can blow his head off, but if you were wrong, he chops you with a machete (grammar education). However, when you are out of bullet you can pick up a bottle of acid (chemistry) and throw at his face and see how his body deforms (biology).
With so many creative minds in our government and administration, why not think creatively about our students and education, and leave the less creative thinking to the dangerous criminals, and just keep them locked where they belong.
playwrite27
I'm all for staying in school--but despite what our repspective government say, the reality is, is that many drop-outs make more money than a lot of college graduates--albeit, usually in factories, or govenmental jobs--such as road work and janitorial.
I mean, I don't know about over there--but in my office building, the janitors make 11 dollars an hour, and don't have to have a high school diploma, and in my office, you have to be a college grad--or at least, enrolled in college, and we only make 8.75 to 10.00 an hour!