Ray Evans Harrell , commenting on the full 12 month school year concept,
said:
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> When are these students going to have the time to learn to be human beings?
>
>When their sexuality is strongest we give them science as a substitute.
>Sit in that uncomfortable chair and get control of those hormones!
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>
>Would more school in a hot room help? How about a look at Cat on a Hot
>Tin Roof, or Streetcar Named Desire for the answer to that one? Math,
>Science and Social Studies do little to channel testasterone. Some think
>that vocational training will substitute money for sexuality and drugs.
>Well they should look into the sexual practices of the CEOs with money to
>spare and remember that on Wall Street John Baptiste Say's law "Supply
>creates demand" is called the first rule of a successful drug dealer.
These are really important concepts. I lived through a group of 25 teen
age boys with neither interest in academics nor sports. For them, there
were girls, drugs, and rock and roll. Since they usually failed a course
or two, they spent most of their summer in school. They got worse. My
solution was to take them out of summer schools, pack them in a couple of
pick up trucks with tents, packs, and canoes, and keep them in a river
channel or on top of a mountain for two or three days a month, with day
trips in between. They learned to respect not only the land, but some
adults, themselves, and the unexplained reasons for learning discipline
and teamwork. Regardless of the mindset or parental unit feedback system,
getting kids out of cities (or even small towns) and schools allows them
to free their mind of the kinds of peer pressures they are constantly
under and learn skill sets that aren't available to many of their
teachers.
-- jzavacki@wolff.com John Zavacki The Wolff Group 800-282-1218 http://www.wolff.com/Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>