I believe that every child should have an opportunity to receive a good education. If every teacher does the best that they can at their job than children will learn. Children need to have the opportunity to be at school to receive this education.
Last year I had a student who was absent for many days in a row, at first some of the other students told me she was sick, then after about 10 days of her absence I decided to investigate. I went to the office to find out some information and what I learned was heart breaking. Her parents no longer lived together and her mother kicked her out of the house, she was living with her father and she was in essence the parent. She took care of him and the apartment and she tried as hard as she could to take the bus to our school district but many times didn't make it in to school. I believe she was not given the opportunity to receive an education because she had to be a parent when she still needed parents.
I eventually started to home school this particular girl in biology however, she asked me not to come to her house. We would either meet at the town library or she would somehow get to the school that I was teaching at. It might seem as if she was then receiving an education however, I believe that education is more than just the core subjects. Part of an education is being at school, socializing in the cafeteria, and being part of a club or an athletic team. Part of an education is learning how to balance school and other activities, and this girl was not able to have these aspects of an education. Therefore, I believe every child has the right to an education that expands beyond the core subjects.
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What do you mean by a good education? We hold our students to a standard. We expect them to do certain kind of work at a grade level. Should we hold our teachers to a standard?
I completely agree with what you said about an education being more than just about the core subjects. School atmosphere teaches a lot more about life then any subject ever will. A child sitting at home wouldn't know the common rules of society that a chil learns at school. The core subjects are important, but the whole school experience is very important to a student's life socially and mentally.
It's so true what you and Jackie said- school is not just what we learn in the classroom. I don't think we'd be successful teachers if we didn't know some personal and background information about our students... We get through to them best by learning what they like, what they're interested in, and everything else that is a factor in their lives.
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