If President Obama is serious about improving education, extending the school day, week or year is not the way to do it, writes John Ashley in the Syracuse Post Standard. “If kids want to learn then they will be smarter,” he writes. “If they don’t want to learn, no matter how many hours they are in school, they’re not going to learn.”
In elementary school, we should make it so kids like to come to school. If they have good memories of school when they were young, that will follow them throughout their schooling years. We also have to make sure that we have good teachers. Bad teachers will only destroy the system.
I neglected to mention that John Ashley is 14. Call it consumer research.
Do you have any good memories of school? At all? Whatsoever?
I have lots of good memories. Eight grade science and social studies were high points…
A few bad memories too (I really disliked my 1st grade teacher…).