Hmmm... A day in Public School-
I go into english class. My teacher begins debates on why Richard Cory died in the end. We debate for 45 minutes using what evidence is available till the bell rings.
I go into Psychology class. The teacher begins class discusion on certian mental illnesses that we recieved notes on the day before. He gives examples of people and we must diagnose them and give support as to why. Afterall he ain't so nice to give us clear cut cases.
I go into Physics class. And immediately start a lab. The class was 90% labs. Shooting off rockets to get trajectory and then hitting targets with calculations. Without calcs it doesn't count. And many others.
I go to Wester Civilization class. We spend entire class periods discusing different causes and effects of certian events.
I go to Senior Government. Entire class is spent learning about the upcoming election and what each canidate as to offer and then debating issues. Or we spend the class period trying to come up with a better way of handling public school funding. We also had a 3+ page paper due aweek on american politics etc.
And that doesn't even begin to explain the rest of the classes.
But as a final stab. In college advanced math what we are being taught I learned in 9th and 10th grade. In english we are being taught what I learned in HS. The papers are easier to score high on as well. An A here wouldn't have gotten me an A at my school(then again the teachers did believe if a student was good that they should be graded on a harsher scale. Basically they expected more then a piss ant effort from me. And they could recognize it when I did give them such an effort).
Anyways I don't care for it when Public schools are bashed. The teachers that are in the schools are sometimes the problem. We out perform the Private schools here cause we got the better teachers. The school with the better teachers(and staff) performs better, not whether or not it is private or public.
