Third: Prepare for the math and science revolution. If the United States is going to be able to compete in the world economy in the near future we need to focus on math, physical science, bioscience, and engineering. Bioscience needs to be applied to scanning equipment, detectors, and other concepts to meet the needs of areas such as the War On Terrorism. The final frontier places great demands on all of the subjects. What better way for inner city kids to get a meal ticket for a great future then to get a focused education on the sciences? Just think of all the applications for the electrical and mechanical engineering fields.
Instead of focusing on taking a “get them by” approach, the administrators need to figure out how to transform the education system into a “pick them up and dust them off” human equity building system. The current system focuses too much on lower class size, marketing programs, reacting, tenured teachers, and slipping things under the carpet. They are completely missing the point! What is needed is more tutors to pickup those behind, more professionals teaching, more challenge, and focus on the benefits that a pro-active education system can bring.
There are some major cultural problems that we are being faced with, especially in the inner city. In some circles a good and successful education is considered a sell out of the culture. Society is afraid to be honest about that and therefore unable to deal with that issue. This issue must be addressed and turned around. There is way too much good talent out there that is losing out, and our society is losing out on, because of this dim view of the world. We either all win or lose together. There is no good reason for this dim view on success and hard work. Just from my observations it comes down to a matter of guilt, remorse, a sense of hopelessness, and a general distrust of those in charge of the system. We can turn that all around with a focus on the job of getting people on the right track in life, and having been shown the benefits thereof. Too often people make it to easy for us to make excuses for not doing what is human nature, and that is the pursuit of happiness. It all starts with education!
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Yes all of this is true but at the same time in order to have more tutors to pick up those kids and increase the education and pick up those kids who are "just getting by" there has to be young kids intrest in it. The whole problem isnt just the school system its also the kids who just dont give a rats ass. They are the kids who only want to "just get by" because thats all they think they need to live life the way they think they should or they see things on tv that say oh well he\she didnt do good in school so i dont have to either. Its just not the schols its also the kids
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