Obama Details Plan for Overhauling Education
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I'm a straight A senior in highschool with honors and A.P. (Advanced Placement..aka college level) classes and for the most part, I agree with Obama's plan. I most definitely agree that the teachers that deserve the pay should get it. I see many teachers who are wonderful and put so much effort and time into their work but don't get anything for it. I also agree with the idea of getting better trained teachers in the classroom, because frankly, when I walk in a class where the teacher is no good what-so-ever, I don't learn anything and the class itself becomes useless and boring to me.
However, I do NOT agree with the idea of longer school days and years, especially for the older kids in high school and college. Even as a straight A student, it's nice when breaks come up through out the year, the school day finally ends, and the year is finally to an end. My mind gets a chance to recooperate when I'm off school, and longer school days will be hard to work through, especially meaning there will be less time to work on homework in the afternoon and evening and also less time to do anything else socially, whether it be sports, exercise, or extracurricular, that is necessary to being a teenager and human. Longer years is the same issue. Being able to go out with friends to a movie, or get a summer job, or go on vacation is vital to growing socially and expanding ourselves in who we are and what we do, and continuing to help us not burn out in high school. If we burn out in high school, how are we to continue to work in college and in a career? Give us the breaks we need.
Obama's Educational Reform Plan
I am a middle school math teacher and I must say that a longer school year sounds fine to me. I'm not wild about the longer days, but summer vacation is not necessary anymore.
My biggest concern is the merit pay proposal. Obama says he wants to "attract the best and brightest into the profession". This makes me laugh because unless you pay the best and the brightest, you're not going to attract them. At this point, teacher morale is so low that many don't care about anything but punching in and punching out.
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