Schools

I ran across a blog on the Smart City Memphis blogs about our schools priorities. This caught my attention not only because I am doing school assessment but also because I was watching part of the news last night and overheard them talking about how the Memphis City Schools needed more money. I just can not understand why they are doing so horrible and more money while the Shelby County Schools get less money and are doing much better grades wise and according to No Child Left Behind. I do think that we need to figure something out. There is too much violence and other horrible things going on in our schools. Going back to priorities though, shouldn’t the top priority be these children’s education and their future? I do not understand why the focus has come off of the child’s education so much. I think that I the classroom now days, teachers have to focus too much on behavior and test taking skills that they do not even get to half the stuff the children are actually supposed to learn. A lot of this starts back at the home. If parents would become more involved with their children, then we would probably have less problems with behavior. If teachers did not have to focus so much on the principles of No Child Left Behind, then the students would get to learn more from the textbooks. I think we just ultimately need to reevaluate what is going on inside the classrooms.