Today I filled out a survey to send to Barack Obama's new administration. It was about education. The survey question was, If you were the new president and education was your number one priority, what is one thing you would change in the current school system? (not that exact wording but I can't remember exactly how it went)
I didn't know exactly what to say. There's a lot of stuff that the school system could do better. Perhaps the first thing though would be to get people to stop dropping out of high school. It's going to be harder and harder to get a job if you don't have a high school diploma. Right now it's hard for people with a college degree to get jobs.
It would also be nice if the school system was more flexable. I like the school I'm in because it's project based and I can work towards my strengths and interests. I don't think I would do well in a traditional school setting and I'm sure there are a lot of students like me.
There's a lot of stuff to work on, lots of stuff to fix, but also lots of new and exciting ideas to play with. I don't envy the people in charge of education, but I'm sure their jobs will be 'interesting'.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Legislation for Charter and Online schools
EdVisions Off-Campus High School is a pretty different school from the norm. Actually, it's the only project based, online school in the whole United Sates.
I sort of take the school for granted, because I've been homeschooled so I don't really realize or notice as much as other people how different it is from traditional school. It's interesting to really look at this school once in a while and think, "wow, this is really an amazing school."
The reason I'm thinking of this right now is because the state of Minnesota is projecting a 935 million dollar budget deficit. And the thing that the state spends most money on is education. EdVisions Off-Campus is a charter school, which means it gets its funding from the state and taxes. When the state is in financial trouble, programs are going to be cut and new money saving legislations are going to arrive. That's not a bad thing necessarily, but it does mean that our school might come under scrutiny because it's so different from all the other schools. We are affected by legislations for charter schools, and legislations for online schools.
It's sort of strange all the things that the government has charter or online schools do to make sure they're meeting the standards. It is good to have things like that, because the schools are using tax payer's money so they should be doing a good job, but sometimes it just seems like busy work and it doesn't even help show if the school is actually helping all its students or not.
It's really weird, all these economic problems. It's not like there is less money in the world now. There is still the same amount I think. I don't think all the bills and coins disappeared over night did they?
I sort of take the school for granted, because I've been homeschooled so I don't really realize or notice as much as other people how different it is from traditional school. It's interesting to really look at this school once in a while and think, "wow, this is really an amazing school."
The reason I'm thinking of this right now is because the state of Minnesota is projecting a 935 million dollar budget deficit. And the thing that the state spends most money on is education. EdVisions Off-Campus is a charter school, which means it gets its funding from the state and taxes. When the state is in financial trouble, programs are going to be cut and new money saving legislations are going to arrive. That's not a bad thing necessarily, but it does mean that our school might come under scrutiny because it's so different from all the other schools. We are affected by legislations for charter schools, and legislations for online schools.
It's sort of strange all the things that the government has charter or online schools do to make sure they're meeting the standards. It is good to have things like that, because the schools are using tax payer's money so they should be doing a good job, but sometimes it just seems like busy work and it doesn't even help show if the school is actually helping all its students or not.
It's really weird, all these economic problems. It's not like there is less money in the world now. There is still the same amount I think. I don't think all the bills and coins disappeared over night did they?
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