1. Place the students according to the courses they want to take. This way, students that excel in a course are less likely to be bullied by other students that don't perform well in said course. 2. I totally agree with the character Bright Noah from the video game Gundam: Journey to Jaburo that when people who are very skilled are mixed with those that are not very skilled problems will arise. What happens is that in school students who don't have high IQs are jealous of those that do have high IQs and students who don't have high athletic ability are jealous of those that do have high athletic ability. The jealousy leads to fights. Thus students shall be further scheduled on their IQs and athletic abilities. 3. It's been proven that students learn better when they get to sit in class next to their friends. So I would do like my Art I and Electronics teachers did - allow students to sit next to their friends and not have assigned seating. 4. Provide totally optional nonmandatory free summer school for students who want to take school courses ahead of the general school year and/or after the general school year so the students can accomplish more. 5. Proportional punishments for students and faculty that intentionally initiate physical bullying of any type against other students/faculty - such physical conflicts can be but are not necessarily limited to: punching, poking, thumping, kicking, biting, head bunting, stomping, hitting others with objects, throwing objects at others, slamming others into objects, etc. And proportional punishments for sexual, verbal, written, and typed bullying. 6. Have the following courses available in middle school as obligatory semester courses: Philosophy, Parenting. 7. Give students information to study for equivalency tests and give students those tests to take - if a student passes the test then he/she automatically passes a course and does not have to take it. When I went to high school that's what we did with our math courses. Have teachers take standardized tests also. Federal and state testing mandates should correspond to essentials 1) sufficient mathematics knowledge 2) reading/writing knowledge 3) knowledge of nutrition and other life skills 4) citizenship skills 5) critical thinking skills. A wide variety of tests can be developed to test how well a particular school is delivering the sort of education it advertises. 8. Enable schools to set up places in middle and high schools that can get people registered to vote. 9. Have less shop courses and more language courses available. Hardware stores can teach people how to use tools such as hammers whereas languages are in the public domain and must therefore be taught by teachers. By having students study languages, they can be prepared to be diplomatic to people that reside in other countries which will greatly reduce the chance for warfare; shop courses must be lessened because they prepare students to make weapons in factories; we could have a limited shop course for each student to learn hardware safety. First Aid and other safety curricula also. 10. Let school uniforms to be worn or not to be worn decided by school officials. As for a peace symbol for each student to wear; I think this would be a very good idea because I don't want a terrorist to think that a public school is being used by the federal government to indoctrinate youth. 11. Proportionally pay students when they perform well as a Social Security bonus - this will get them to want to care about education. 12. Increase pay for teachers. I recommend a minimum yearly salary of $120k a year adjusted for inflation and proportional to effort. I remember in high school how a chemistry teacher spent half his time playing on a computer. Deduct pay from teachers if they refuse to stop bullying and/or slack off. 13. Require teachers to want their students to become more educated than them. 14. Let students can decide the dates they take tests, and tests on science, language, history of various proper nouns. I do think Newton's Third Law of Motion should be reexamined. I mean, if I throw a metal block at a glass window, that window won't exert a repelling force onto that metal block, but will break into pieces instead. Now if I throw a metal block at a brick wall, then yeah that metal block be repelled and bounce off that wall. 15. Allow students to bring their own food to school. If possible, have school lands be used for gardens so students can grow food to eat. 16. Have a morality/ethics/empathy/cultural diversity course taught to all students. The Japanese have such a course and they have a way less violent crime rate than the USA does... 17. According to Bill Maher meat contains steroids due to how farmers put steroids in animals to make them bigger and these animals cause people that eat them to be aggressive due to the steroids chemicals. Aggressive people commit violent actions like fights, rapes, and murder and these do happen at schools. Therefore public schools will neither sell nor give meat to students and/or faculty. 18. Seatbelts on all school buses for students, school bus monitors, and of course school bus drivers. 19. Reterm schools "education improvement facilities". 20. More school choice and a wider variety of educational paths. Children and parents should have more power to choose what the child is going to do. 21. Don't give/sell junk food to students and/or faculty. 22. Offer more students the opportunity to learn real-world, vocational skills at the high school level. We are way behind other nations in this respect. The Green Party should consider the idea of one vocational education at the public expense per citizen. Ie, junior college scholarships or grants for vocational training. Imho, there shouldn't be tuition for junior college level coursework (basics can be offered cheaply online and vocational training for in-demand jobs ought to be subsidized). 23. I want for the word "read" in each school to be considered as an acronym that stands for: recognize (as in comprehend information) experience (allow comprehended information to be tried out by students, if possible) apply (as in use experienced comprehended information to real life situations, if possible) direct (as in to get students to have other people use applied experienced comprehended information, if possible) 24. I want prerequisites for each student that wants to graduate from high school to get at least: an A+ in World Geography (this will nullify the so called Flat Earth Societys belief system and US Southerners belief systems given how all US states are North of the equator), an A+ in matrixes of Algebra II, at least three course years of English, passing of at least three course years of non-English language(s), an A+ in high school US History, an A- in high school physics, and recitation of the entire United States of America Constitution. 25. I believe it could be realistic by reconfiguring our grading system so that a high school diploma is directly proportional to grades received instead of merely the number of courses passed.
I have an idea abolish compulsory education under Federal Law and require the parent(s) see to each child's education like they are required to do other things. In lieu of the education system as it is have independent learning complexes, more funding for libraries and library professionals and require companies getting government contracts and grants help with education and career training. Let parents use these and the free market to come up with creative ideas to provide education options. If parents fail to do this obligation treat it as child neglect.
Most of this is ridiculous. No offense, but I'm glad you are not designing US education reform. I mean, registering middle schoolers to vote? How there are a few worthwhile ideas here. #2: Group students by abilities. It would make it easier to teach if students have a similar ability level. Maybe make the dummy Algebra class stretched out over a year rather than one semester. 9 & 22 seem to contradict each other. You want both less shop and more vocational training. I think more vocational training would be good. Not every kid is going to college so we need to stop trying push them as if they are. We're just pushing them to drop out. Let them get enough skills to actually get a job out of high school.
Why do you believe most of what I propose is ridiculous? In regards to 9 & 22, I was referring to high tech jobs vocational training in school. Middle schoolers do work for money, and let's remember they're about the ages of 12-14; and John Paul Jones, when he was 14 years of age during the American Revolution, had been captain of a ship (source, History Channel). I also want students that are videotaped drinking alcohol and/or chewing/smoking tobacco to be prohibited from getting high school diplomas from any high school that is federally funded. The United States of America, state, and local governments have wasted way too many $ on getting people to quit these unhealthy habits.
I don't disagree with that. I don't quite buy that, especially considering the silly source. I have little athletic ability, and am not jealous of those with athletic ability. What video game source did that dubious factoid come from? Of course meat contains steroids. Most plant matter also contains steroids. Steroids are an essential part of cell membranes. Bill Maher is a comedian, not a science teacher (I, on the other hand, am a former science teacher). School bus drivers all have seat belts. I know not what a school bus monitor is. Seatbelts don't help much in school bus accidents. Areas with seatbelts on school buses don't have lower injury rates than those without seatbelts. Seat belts have been used by students to hit other students. Silly. Agree 100% Define junk food. Why should adults not be allowed to make their own food choices? I agree with the first part. Disagree about tuition. People don't value what is given to them. They need to work for it. Huh? I guess you like high school dropouts and want to see a low graduation rate. Why recite the Constitution? I can bring it up on my smartphone in about a second. Huh?
John Paul Jones was born in 1747. He was almost 30 during the start of the American Revolution. He did become a captain at a young age, but it was 21, not 14 (in 1868, the captain and first mate on a ship he was aboard died, and he took over and got the ship home safely). What is taught in shop is part of many vocations. To get rid of shop, but want more vocational education is contradictory. Most middle schoolers CAN'T work for money. You can't work for money in the U.S. until you are 14 for the most part. Few middle schoolers (less than 1/4) are over 14. You, like most people with leftist leanings, are quite a fascist. Your view of alcohol/tobacco is positively draconian.
