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Current Educational Trends
You may think
this article will let you in on the secrets of the school
system. What are they thinking and what new ideas are
they trying in order to promote the education of our
future. The answer to this may very well be our public’s
outcry for the tutoring of our youngsters. Yes, you read
this correctly the current trend in education is where is
your child getting his additional assistance either for
remedial work or for furthering his mind.
I say this with
a heavy heart and first hand experience. I too want my
son to be further challenged and so decided to hop on the
bandwagon of parents who feel the basics are lacking in
our schools. While waiting for my son to be tested I
talked to parents and listened. Really listened!!! As I
listened I heard parents mention the same reasons for
tutoring over and over again.
 Parents
do not want new gadgets to make learning quicker or
easier, they want phonics, diagramming of sentences and
timed math tests. They want what I had as a youngster….
back to basics education. For without foundations, which
are flown through during the school day so we can get to
all of the material required by parents, state and
district, we are actually not serving the child but
serving the public and their construed knowledge of
education.
As our day
becomes more filled with demands and goals to be met I
only see the basics being lost completely. I foresee an
educational system in which parents are teaching reading,
writing and arithmetic and the schools will be taking this
knowledge to the higher levels demanded by society. What
happened to learning to read in Kindergarten or basic math
in first grade? Why are we as a society placing demands
on our teachers to teach our students concepts they are
not prepared for? Do we really need to say Johnny is
learning algebra in second grade and reading well beyond
grade level? I only wonder is Johnny still counting on
fingers and toes and not understanding what he is
phonetically reading.
 So
if you really want to be on the cutting edge of education
I suggest looking into products or services that will give
your child the advantage he will need for higher grades.
Do not assume that school has the time to teach as you
were once taught. If you doubt this listen to the
questions you child has in the evening over homework. Are
they questions you may have had as a child or are they
questions that root back to the non-learning of the
basics.
As a former
teacher I applaud all the choices we as parents have to
increase our awareness and our children’s abilities. If
we all jump on the bandwagon now we will make many centers
rich…. or we can go to our local school boards and
question those in power about the basics of education and
where has it gone.
 
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