What I think about education, or what I would change about it. Would definitely start with education not being graded by simple test scores, I’m not sure that you can grade knowledge and understanding or even readiness to take on the world or to even be a productive part of it for that matter by sitting a child down in front of a piece of paper. I feel that education should be more about creating critical thinkers, teaching students to think for themselves and to stand on their own, independent free thinkers as mentioned in my second paper.

            There are students who graduate high school without the ability to balance a checkbook or manage their own bank account and what about understanding credit reports and scores. I know that much lies on that of the parents but some children were just not given a fair chance in this category (again a draw of the lottery). You can’t always rely on the parents because so many don’t have the knowledge themselves to share. I also agree that students should be taught to understand more about politics and voting.

Group Work

In our group we discussed real life preparation, balancing a checkbook, managing a bank account, understanding the importance of good credit. We talked about understanding politics and the importance of voting, in my opinion the importance of using your own voice which I believe is another skill that we could focus on in k-12.  We also touched on standardized testing.