Do you think middle schools are pointless?
Share your thoughts below: do you think they should be joined with elementary schools or they serve a important place like elementary and high schools?
| Yes | 19 | |
| No | 25 |
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handsignals
That's were you lose your virginity and start smoking weed, the most important part of a child's development.
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modernism
I feel like it gives the kids a sense of "growing up". I know that whenever I moved onto 6th grade, I felt like a total badass (until I saw all the 8th graders - which at the time, looked like giants to me).
I also feel like putting 8th graders in the same school with 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders is a bit... odd (and potentially dangerous - as fights could happen among the older ones and the younger ones shouldn't be seeing that). Children should be exposed to those at the same general level of intellect and experience as themselves.
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dickwashington
i didn't have a middle school the elementary school had kindergarten through sixth grade and the high school had grades seven through twelve
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America has opted for adolesent day care postponing education until college. As a result, expectations to comply with a national identity are never established. This makes for easy social acceptance of genius immigrants to drive technological progress and research. It's the main reason that a chaotic laissez-faire society comes out on top.
Eventually, it will lead to extreme income inequality. The future government will collapse trying fund itself with a diminishing tax base. But, what the fuck. Ignore the future and live it up.
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reminiscent
I think thats too many people in one school... like if you combined all the kids together in one building?
Pointless no... for one older kids move to a new building so not so many kids together...and also it kinda prepares you for highschool.
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Anonymous Post Author
No. More like you closed every middle school and made the new Elementary-Middle schools serve grades PK-8 (rather than Elementary schools usually serving PK-5 and middle schools serving 6-8) and high schools would be the standard 9-12.
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Anonymous Post Author
They'd be twice as big and there would be Elementary Wings and Middle Wings.
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Anonymous Post Author
Aren't elementary and middle schools more about bigger kids not being with the smaller ones and difference in hormones/ emotional development? Back in the old days, there weren't any middle schools. They're a (moderately) very recent thing.
I don't really see why it'd be important to separate elementary schoolers with preteen children. You'd think it wouldn't be a issue.
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reminiscent
WIll I wasnt talking about that...i was saying in one building you would have to fit a large amount of students...you would need a much larger building. And I just think its too many kids.
But with what your saying...maybe
keeps the much older kids from bullying the much younger ones...or taking advantage of them.
and there is a difference in hormones and emotional development.Comment Hidden ( show )
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thegypsysailor
Middle school is very important in the American system because the babysitters (oops sorry, teachers) don't need to be as experienced as they are in high school, so it saves the child care (sorry, school) system millions of dollars each year in salaries.
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Anonymous Post Author
Not every public school is bad and not all teachers are bad. And homeschooling/private education aren't neccessarily better.
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thegypsysailor
Never said bad, did I? Private schools are definitely better or those with money wouldn't waste the money. The teachers in private schools are the best money can buy, for the most part.
I do not believe the public schools in the US are anything more than state sponsored child care centers for the two income families. Each year less and less is spent on public education (henceforth less capable teachers, more capable babysitters) as a dumbed-down populous is much easier to control than a well educated one (search; the deliberate dumbing down of America). The middle class is on the way out and life and the freedoms you know now, may not exist within your lifetime.Comment Hidden ( show )-
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Anonymous Post Author
What if the kids that supposedly need to go to private schools aren't religious? Do you really expect them to take up a religion? What if they're parents aren't religious either? Because most private schools affiliate to a religion.
Are you religious?
And a reformation of public schools and better means of funding said schools would help greatly (That's only thing we have to do along with a new method of training teachers). No one has to stop attending public schools. Also, in alot of cases, public schools are better. You don't always need private school to turn out successful. Some are homeschooled while others recieve public education and they're successful too. To think that the only good schools are private is a old way of thinking.
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