Public School

It is no surprise to anyone that our public school system is gravely failing our children. Students aren’t learning the basic skills needed in adulthood nor are they retaining the majority of the knowledge that they are given. Worst of all, teachers have to spend valuable time reviewing the previous year’s work to ensure all pupils are at an equal knowledge base.

Each teacher has a school board approved curriculum to guide their lesson plan. While the curriculum states what concepts should be attained during a specific grade span, no concrete lessons are explain. For example the skill expectation in math may be Uses properties or attributes of angles or sides to identify, describe, or distinguish among (specific shapes). That seems to make sense, right And that expectation could be spread from second to fourth grade, so which teacher teaches it Second Third Fourth The way this usually works is the school decides to purchase books that they believe adequately covers the expected curriculum. The teachers design their individual lesson plans around the material in the textbook and the material they are encourage to cover by the administration. Now say there are three different classrooms in third grade. Each teacher designs a different lesson plan covering different material and maybe not getting around to some material at all or covering more than the required material.

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