What’s wrong with today’s schools top scoring and the students not understanding their assignments?

In my day there used to be HOMEWORK. When a child is sent home with homework, I thought anyway, the parent had to help the child work on an assignment everyday until he or she got it done, or the smart ones just did their own homework so they can go out and play OR turn on the TV, and now a days turn on the computer and hit the chat rooms or still go out and visit friends. Na, who am I kidding, they hit the chat rooms.

But that homework is then turned in the next day and time is taken to go over every student’s homework by the teacher during part of an hour long class while the students are reading for the next day’s homework. Then, near the end of that class, the teacher picks the best & the worst of the papers to go over some of the questions & areas that were missed & picked up the most.

This process was done in almost every classroom in almost every school and these were not all ½ hour long elective classes either. All classes were one hour, making school nine hours long, with a one hour lunch, just like a job is, so going to school is just like it’s going to be when these High School’ers are let loose on the world with little or no education.

The Teachers need to stop bitching about the pay that they get for now and once we get Congress to understand what it’s going to take to do everything I just described; the paper to copy the homework, the extra hour long classes, more air conditioning, more lighting which means more electricity. And since the classrooms are already over crowded you might as well throw in a teacher’s Aid in each Math, English and Spelling class. And that isn’t going to be cheep so hang onto your skivvies on that one, ok boys.

And that’s not the problem, the problem starts at home, with the parents who are supposed to be helping our children learn too. But Oh no, we just think we can send them off to school and someone else will do the job because we have paid for this in our taxes or for some other dumb ass reason. Wake up people!! What ever happened to the PTA? All I see is that the once proud Parents-Teachers Association is now disbanded all over the Nation and it is now a joke all over the web. That seems to be funny to allot of today's youth. Funny, well, you will laugh last my small minded friends. And what ever happened to a parent helping their own child, actually sitting down with that kid and saying “hey son or daughter, how can I help today?” Is that so far gone that I am some sort of stranger in my own country? I thought that this was America, the land of the brightest and the best.

I’ll tell ya, in the past twenty years I’ve seen it go from the brightest and the best to the wacky & worst and now the lame and lost.

That’s the Lazlo Report for Wednesday, January 10th 2007