Should Maths be taught in School ????

[wombat2u2004]

The Japanese also have a suicide rate that is horrendous.

There is plenty of incentive to learn. It's called proper parenting. The schools cannot be expected to serve all the ancillary functions that they have been saddled with AND educate in the time allotted.

My kids get additional lessons after school, however, it's not anything formal, I just toss in a few additional math problems, spelling questions, etc, while we're going to wherever we're going or doing chores.

Too much about school has become checking the box and making things look good for a college app rather than real coursework.

Well, it's our loss mate. If the "powers who be" believe the current educational system is sufficient to meet the country's needs, then so be it.
If we are to rely on proper parenting, then I can see the majority of kids going down the plughole real quick, because as I stated before, proper parenting in regard to their kids education is not something that is practiced by most people, for lots of reasons.
Sure, perhaps the remedy is to get people off their butts and instill in them the importance of their childrens education. But I think most people wouldn't care, or even if they did, they are probably not educated enough themselves to handle such a task, as they are probably a product of exactly the same system.

Which brings us back to square 1.
We need a better system, and I believe that the system the Japanese have in place is much better than what we have in place.

As for suicide.....well.....in Japan, suicide does run rampant I know, but can you attribute that solely to education ???? Or is it cultural problem ????

[Lady's Human]

Their education system is part of their culture. Failure is not allowed. That kind of cultural pressure does some severe damage.

[RICHARD]

Learning is also assisted by how much 'fun' it can be when the idea is presented to children.

Getting a kid to 'learn' is all dependent on how much that child is geared to the topic/subject.

When I was a kid, I had a knack for science and how things worked.

My dad, who had a very limited school experience, would go to flea markets and buy books-mostly incomplete encyclopedia sets- bring them home and let us go thru them.

That stopped when Ma put her foot down because we had run out of room, but I do remember picking them off the shelves and reading about things that made me wonder and want to learn more.

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I just saw an article in the daily fish wrapper that says schools are going to stop teaching cursive handwriting, instead focusing on keyboard skills.

I thnk tht tht wll b a HUGE mstke and wll mke ppl, speshly kds, seem mre ignrnt as tme goes by.

[phesina]

They've got to be kidding!

Handwriting is a skill that everyone should develop to the best of his or her ability. Typed abbreviated words will never be proper on, for instance, a wedding celebration card or a funeral condolence card, and I think that would be an insult ever to receive one like that.

[Lady's Human]

They've got to be kidding!

Handwriting is a skill that everyone should develop to the best of his or her ability. Typed abbreviated words will never be proper on, for instance, a wedding celebration card or a funeral condolence card, and I think that would be an insult ever to receive one like that.

I disagree completely.

Cursive was just an irritation to me in school, never saw the reason behind it when I could print perfectly well.

Eliminating cursive does not mean eliminating the ability to communicate in print, it just means eliminating something from classroom time that has the same real world value as sentence diagrams.

[lizbud]

I disagree completely.

Cursive was just an irritation to me in school, never saw the reason behind it when I could print perfectly well.

Eliminating cursive does not mean eliminating the ability to communicate in print, it just means eliminating something from classroom time that has the same real world value as sentence diagrams.

You have a right to disagree. If you found the practice boring that's your
hangup. Others may feel differently.

Sentence diagrams are a basic tool to learn the relationships between
words in the English language. Without that knowledge you ( the general
you) find it harder to express yourself well & be understood by other
people.

[Lady's Human]

You have a right to disagree. If you found the practice boring that's your
hangup. Others may feel differently.

Sentence diagrams are a basic tool to learn the relationships between
words in the English language. Without that knowledge you ( the general
you) find it harder to express yourself well & be understood by other
people.

I didn't find it boring, I found it pointless.

the basic parts of speech and organizing your thoughts can be taught without spending hour after hour drawing the little lines and pulling apart sentences to state what is otherwise obvious.

Yeah, I got zeros on those homework assignments.

Needless to say, we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one, I can think of better ways to use those hours of classroom time, and kids can be taught the relationship between words without the tedium.

[wombat2u2004]

Their education system is part of their culture.

Well I must say that their culture is a lot better than ours educationwise then.